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Statutes > Virginia > Title-15-2 > Chapter-21 > 15-2-2147§ 15.2-2147. City acquiring plant within one mile of another city.
If any city acquires by purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise, theproperty, rights and franchises of any private or public service corporationoperating a waterworks system, whose plant is located within one mile of thecorporate limits of any other city and whose mains and pipes are laid in thestreets of such other city, and could thereby prevent the other city fromprocuring water from the plant of such corporation, the city so acquiringsuch property shall establish and maintain the same fees for water undersimilar conditions and circumstances and furnish the same quality andpressure of water, all conditions considered, to all consumers of the sameclass in the other city as is furnished to consumers in the city acquiringthe property.
(Code 1950, § 15-751; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-337; 1997, c. 587.)
