CHAPTER 17
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-701 of the Code of Virginia, relating
under

to the acquisition of certain property by any city or
certain conditions and the disposal of such property.

Approved February 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Le That § 15-701 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 15-701. Any city or town of this Commonwealth may acquire by
purchase, gift or condemnation property adjoining its parks or plats on
which its monuments are located, or other property used for public pur-
poses, or in the vicinity of such parks, plats or property, which is used
and maintained in such a manner as to impair the beauty, usefulness or
efficiency of such parks, plats or public property, and may likewise
acquire property adjacent to any street the topography of which, from
its proximity thereto, impairs the convenient use of such street, or renders
impracticable, without extraordinary expense, the improvement of the
same. The city or town so acquiring any such property may subsequently
dispose of the property so acquired, making limitations as to the use
thereof, which will protect the beauty, usefulness, efficiency or convenience
of such parks, plats or property.

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Any city or town proposing to open or widen a street by * acquiring
any part of a block or square in such a manner that the value of the
property abutting the proposed street would be injuriously affected unless
the property on such block or square is re-platted and the property line
readjusted, may at the same time it acquires the land for such street also
acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise, all or any part of the property on
such squares or blocks and may subsequently replat and dispose of the
property so acquired, in whole or in part, making such limitations as to
the uses thereof as it may see fit.