Bill Text: VA SB676 | 2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Abandoned graveyards; when locality acquires title they may continue to maintain property.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0617) [SB676 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2010-SB676-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §57-36 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §57-36. Abandoned graveyards may be condemned; removal of bodies. A. When a graveyard, wholly or partly within any county, city or town, has been abandoned, or is unused and neglected by the owners, and such graveyard is necessary, in whole or in part, for public purposes, authorized by the charter of such city or town, or by the general statutes providing for the government of counties, cities and towns, such county, city or town may acquire title to such burying ground by condemnation proceedings, to be instituted and conducted in the manner and mode prescribed in the statutes providing for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by counties, cities and towns. The locality may continue to maintain all or a portion of the burying ground as a graveyard. B. The court taking jurisdiction of |