§ 33.1-127. When condemnation proceedings instituted; payment of compensation or damages; order confirming awar...
Within 180 days after the recordation of such certificate, if the Commissioner and the owner or owners of such lands or interest therein taken or damaged by the Commissioner are unable to agree as to the compensation or damages, if any, caused thereby, or such consent cannot be obtained due to the incapacity of the owners or one or more of them, or because such owner, or owners, be unknown or cannot with reasonable diligence be found within this Commonwealth, the Commissioner shall institute condemnation proceedings, as provided in this article, unless said proceedings shall have been instituted prior to the recordation of such certificate. The amount of such compensation and damages, if any, awarded to the owner or owners in such proceedings shall be paid out of the appropriations to the Virginia Department of Transportation. The final order confirming the Commissioner's award shall confirm absolute and indefeasible title to the land, or interest therein sought, in the Commonwealth and shall be spread in the current deed book.
(Code 1950, § 33-70.9; 1958, c. 581; 1970, c. 322; 1993, c. 35; 2003, c. 317.)
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