Any locality may acquire, except by condemnation, sites, landmarks, structures and records of historical interest and value to the Commonwealth and may restore and preserve them, or may convey them to a nonstock corporation chartered under Virginia law for the purposes of acquiring and preserving such places and things. A locality may appropriate money to any such corporation.
Va. Code Ann. § 15.2-944
Authority to acquire and preserve places and things of historical interest
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 81 Va. Cir. 18 - Town of Rural Retreat v. Huckleberry Farms, L.L.C. (2010)
Most recently applied in 81 Va. Cir. 18 - Town of Rural Retreat v. Huckleberry Farms, L.L.C. (March 2010)
Code 1950, § 15-7.3; 1962, c. 333, § 15.1-18.1; 1997, c. 587.
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