State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Virginia > Title-15-2 > Chapter-51 > 15-2-5122§ 15.2-5122. Approval for certain water supply impoundment facilities.
No locality or authority shall construct, provide or operate outside itsboundaries any water supply impoundment system without first obtaining theconsent of the governing body of the locality in which such system is to belocated; however, no consent shall be required for the operation of any suchwater supply impoundment system in existence on July 1, 1976, or in theprocess of construction or for which the site has been purchased or for theorderly expansion of such water supply system.
In any case in which the approval by such governing body is withheld, theparty seeking such approval may petition for the convening of a specialcourt, pursuant to §§ 15.2-2135 through 15.2-2141.
(1975, c. 573, § 15.1-1250.1; 1976, c. 69; 1997, c. 587.)
