Chap. 101.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 6, as amended,
of an act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the City of Danville.”, approved Feb-
ruary 17, 1890, relating to power to own land without the City limits. [H 193]

Approved February 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section eight of chapter six, as amended, of an act entitled
“An Act to incorporate the City of Danville.”, approved February seven-
teen, eighteen hundred ninety, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:
Section 8. In addition to powers granted under general statutes to
acquire, establish, maintain, operate, extend and enlarge water works,
gas works, steam and hydro-electric plants and other public utilities
within and without the limits of the city, and in addition to powers granted
under general statutes to acquire, establish, construct, own, control, lease
lands without the corporate limits for the operation of a municipal air-
port and lands for the location, maintenance and operation of a prison
farm, the council, in the name of the city of Danville, Virginia, shall also
have further power to purchase, receive, lease and hold lands, tenements,
goods and chattels, either in fee simple or in any less estate therein, either
for the use of the city in its private, public, governmental, or other capac-
ity or in trust for the benefit of any person or association therein, and
may lease, sell, grant and convey any lands, tenements, personal or any
other property owned by the city of Danville, whether the same be owned
in its private, public, governmental, or other capacity; to purchase and
hold any quantity of land outside of the limits of the corporation, and
in the county of Pittsylvania, not exceeding five hundred acres, as may
be necessary for use, convenience and comfort of the public, and for one
or more public cemeteries, public parks, home for the poor, and a work-
house, and for such other purposes as the council may designate. Any
land so acquired and bona fide used for such purpose shall be subject to
the jurisdiction of the council, and the corporation court of the city, in
like manner as if the same were within the corporate limits of the city, and
shall be free from state tax.

The council of the city shall have power and authority to construct,
own, control, maintain, and operate railway yards, tracks, depots, and
terminals, within and without the city, in Pittsylvania county, and to
let the same to some corporation which will maintain, use and operate
the same, and to that end, the council may acquire within and without
the limits of the city, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, whatever
land may be necessary for construction, locating, establishing, maintain-
ing and operating such railway yards, tracks, depots and terminals. Any
lessee of property acquired by the city hereunder shall not, at any time
during the term of the lease, assign the lease, or sublet the property to
any person, firm or corporation, which owns, controls, or operates, in
whole or in part, a competing line of railway entering the city, if the re-
sult of such assignment or subletting shall be that only one line or cor-
poration shall thereby own and control all lines of railway entering the
city; provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize
the condemnation of property already devoted to a railroad use, but this
restriction is not intended to in any way interfere with or hinder or ob-
struct the city in its right to cross with its railway tracks or those of its
lessee the tracks of other railroad companies.
128 J a ACTS OF ASSEMBLY [va., 1944