Chap. 198.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 28 of an act entitled “An
Act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and
to provide a charter therefor.”, approved January 16, 1896, relating to the
acquisition of transportation, water and light facilities. fH 338]

Approved March 1], 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section twenty-eight of an act entitled “An Act to in-
corporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and
to provide a charter therefor.”, approved January sixteen, eighteen
hundred ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 28. To purchase, or otherwise acquire, and to develop and
enlarge transportation systems, including street railway companies, bus
companies, transit companies, including rights-of-way, franchises, rights,
improvements, lands and buildings, together with all vehicles, street cars,
buses, and other equipment relating to transportation companies of all
kinds, waterworks, electric-light and/or gas plants, within or without
the limits of the city; to contract for the use of transportation facilities,
street railways, bus and transit lines and services, and water and lights.
for the use of the city and its citizens, and to agree with the owners of
any transportation systems or utilities, and the owners of any land for
the use and purchase thereof, or to have the same condemned according
to law, for the location, extension, enlargement, or improvement of any
transportation system, waterworks, electric light or gas plants, the rights-
of-way and pipes that may be connected therewith, or any fixtures or
appurtenances thereof; and shall have the power to protect from injury,
by ordinance prescribing adequate penalties, the transportation system,
works, pipes, fixtures, and lands, or anything connected therewith, or
works, fixtures and appurtenances of any transportation system, street
railway, bus or transit lines, or the works, fixtures, and appurtenances
of water, electric light and gas companies established under its authority
or now existing, whether within or without the limits of the city; pro-
vided that the Council shall in no way, by the exercise of the right of
eminent domain conferred by this act, interfere with the rights, property
or franchises of any chartered company now existing.