§ 33.1-134. Commissioner may file petition for condemnation when no agreement can be reached; notice of condemn...
In the event no agreement can be reached as provided hereinabove or whenever such land is a part or the whole of a cemetery or graveyard owned by persons unknown, or by any person, church, association, corporation, or other legal entity, not having legal authority to make disposition of the same, the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner shall petition the court of the city or county in which the land is situate, and in which condemnation proceedings are instituted to acquire land, for the purpose of condemning such land and having the remains interred in such cemetery or graveyard removed to some suitable repository. To such petition the owner or owners of the land and next of kin to the persons interred therein, if known, shall be made defendants and served with notice. If such owner or owners and next of kin be unknown, or infant, insane or incompetent, or nonresident of this Commonwealth, such notice shall be served in the manner prescribed by Chapter 2 (§ 25.1-200 et seq.) of Title 25.1.
(Code 1950, § 33-75.2; 1960, c. 308; 1970, c. 322; 2003, c. 940.)
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