CHAPTER 291

An Act to amend and reenact § 25-232 of the Code of Virginia relating
to condemnation by certain governmental agencies and instrumen-
talities.

(S 171]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. p fat § 25-232 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:
§ 25-232. If the State Highway Commission or the governing body
of any county, for the purpose of opening, constructing, repairing or
maintaining a road or any other public purpose authorized by law, or
the council of any city or town, the trustees of any school district, the
institution for the deaf and blind, the Breaks Interstate Park Commissvon,
hereinafter referred to as Commission, any of the State hospitals, the
University of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, the Medical Col-
lege of Virginia, or any other State institution, cannot, because of the
incapacity of the owner or inability to agree upon a price or terms,
or because the owner cannot with reasonable diligence be found
in this State or is unknown, agree on terms of purchase with those en-
titled to any land, buildings, structures, sand, earth, gravel, water or
other material necessary to be taken and used for the purposes of the
State Highway Commission, or such county, city, town, or school district,
or for any or all purposes of the institution for the deaf and blind, the
Commission, such State hospitals, the University of Virginia, the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, the Medical College of Virginia, or of any
other State institution, it may acquire title to such land or an easement
thereover, and title to such sand, earth, gravel, water or other material
aforesaid by condemnation under the provisions of chapter * 1.1 of this
title, and the proceedings in all such cases shall be according to the pro-
visions of that chapter, so far as they can be applied to the same. In
all cases where roads are constructed with State aid, either in the form
of convict labor or money, together with county or district funds, the
location of such roads shall be first approved by the local road authorities
of such county. Wherever the word ‘“‘company” is used in chapter * 1.1
of this title it shall be construed to mean the “State Highway Commission”
or “governing body” in cases in which the State Highway Commission
or governing body may, under the provisions hereof, exercise the right
of eminent domain.

Cities and towns may also, upon compliance with the provisions of
Chapter * 1.1 of this title so far as applicable, acquire by condemnation
such lands or rights of way as may be necessary for providing water
sheds for the use of such cities or towns, and for the necessary lands
or rights for laying water pipes from or through the same.