Chap. 172.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1747 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to drainage districts, so as to provide a simple and more ex-
peditious method of condemning rights-of-way, outlets, dams, or other ob-
stacles in connection with the establishment and maintenance of drainace
districts. [S B 228}

Approved March 10, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and forty-seven of the Code of Virginia, relating
to drainage districts, be and the same hereby is amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 1747. May condemn land.—If it shall be necessary to
acquire a right-of-way or rights-of-way, an outlet or outlets over and
through any lands or to remove any dam or dams or other obstacle.
whether the same is or is not operated under a decree of court, and
the same cannot be acquired by purchase at a price deemed reasonable
by the court upon report to the court by the board of viewers there-
upon, then in such event the power of eminent domain 1s hereby con-
ferred, and the same may be condemned. Such owner or owners ot
the land or lands, dam or dams, or other obstacles proposed to he
condemned, may all be made parties defendant in one condemnation
suit or proceeding, whether such owner or owners are all interested
in one tract or parcel of land, dam or other obstacle, or ditferent
owners are interested in different tracts or parcels of land or different
dams or other obstacles, and the procedure in such condemnation suit
or proceeding shall be under the restrictions provided by the general
statutes of this State relative to the condemnation of land so far as
the same may be applicable and are not in conflict with the provisions
of this act.

2. An emergency existing in that proceedings are now pending in
courts of this Commonwealth for the establishment of drainage dis-
tricts in which condemnation proceedings will be necessary, this act
shall be in force from its passage.