CHAPTER 152

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 38-57 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the power of eminent domain in the State Highway Commissioner.

[H 227]
Approved February 27, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-57 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 33-57. Power of eminent domain.—The State Highway Commis-
sioner is hereby vested with the power * to acquire by purchase, gift, or
power of eminent domain such lands, structures, rights of way, franchises,
easements and other interest in lands, including lands under water and
riparian rights, of any person, association, partnership, corporation, or
municipality or political subdivision, deemed to be necessary for the con-
struction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of the public
highways of the State and for these purposes and all other purposes
incidental thereto may condemn property in fee simple and rights of
way of such width and on such routes and grades and locations as by
the Commissioner may be deemed requisite and suitable, including locations
for permanent, temporary, continuous, * periodical or future use, and
rights or easements incidental thereto and lands, quarries, and locations
with rights of ingress and egress, containing gravel, clay, sand, stone,
rock, timber and any other road materials deemed useful or necessary
in carrying out the purposes aforesaid. For the purpose of this article
“public highway’? means highway, road and street; and when applicable,
tie) rep poke highway” also includes bridge, ferry, causeway, landing
and wharf.