CHAPTER 170

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-835 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
powers of certain cities and counties to acquire water works system.

[H 650]
Approved March 15, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
rs That § 15.1-835 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

§ 15.1-335. For the purpose of making provision for an adequate
water supply or of acquiring, maintaining or enlarging a water works
system, the council of every city having a population of more than twenty-
frve thousand and the board of supervisors of every county having a popu-
lation of more than five hundred per square mile, and the board of super-
visors of every county adjoining such a county, and the board of super-
visors of any county having a population of more than fifty-nine thousand
but less than seventy-one thousand, in addition to other powers conferred
by law, shall have the power to acquire, within or without, or partly within
and partly without, the limits of the city or county, by purchase, condemna-
tion, lease or otherwise, the property, in whole or in part, whensoever
acquired, of any private or public service corporation operating a water
works system or chartered for the purpose of acquiring or operating such
a system, including its lands, plants, works, buildings, machinery, pipes,
mains, wells, basins, reservoirs and all appurtenances thereto and its con-
tracts, easements, rights and franchises, including its franchise to be a
corporation, whether such property or any part thereof, is essential to the
purposes of the corporation or not. However, any city or county condemn-
ing property hereunder shall rest under obligation to furnish water, to the
customers of any water company whose property is condemned, at appro-
riate rates.
An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.