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§ 56-14. Streets, etc., of city or town not to be occupied without itsconsent; compensation.

No public service corporation, cold storage, compressed air, viaduct,conduit, or bridge company, nor any corporation, association, person, orpartnership, engaged in these or like enterprises, shall use, cross, oroccupy with its works the streets or alleys, public or private, or the publicgrounds, of any incorporated city or town, whether along, over or under thesame, without the consent of the corporate authorities thereof; and in caseany person shall be damaged in his property by any such use, occupation, orcrossing, such corporation, association, person, or partnership shall, beforeusing, crossing, or occupying such streets, alleys or public grounds, makecompensation therefor to the person so damaged. Such compensation, if theparties cannot agree upon the same, shall be ascertained in the modeprescribed in the laws regulating the exercise of the right of eminent domain.

(Code 1919, § 3882.)

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Virginia > Title-56 > Chapter-1 > 56-14

§ 56-14. Streets, etc., of city or town not to be occupied without itsconsent; compensation.

No public service corporation, cold storage, compressed air, viaduct,conduit, or bridge company, nor any corporation, association, person, orpartnership, engaged in these or like enterprises, shall use, cross, oroccupy with its works the streets or alleys, public or private, or the publicgrounds, of any incorporated city or town, whether along, over or under thesame, without the consent of the corporate authorities thereof; and in caseany person shall be damaged in his property by any such use, occupation, orcrossing, such corporation, association, person, or partnership shall, beforeusing, crossing, or occupying such streets, alleys or public grounds, makecompensation therefor to the person so damaged. Such compensation, if theparties cannot agree upon the same, shall be ascertained in the modeprescribed in the laws regulating the exercise of the right of eminent domain.

(Code 1919, § 3882.)


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Virginia > Title-56 > Chapter-1 > 56-14

§ 56-14. Streets, etc., of city or town not to be occupied without itsconsent; compensation.

No public service corporation, cold storage, compressed air, viaduct,conduit, or bridge company, nor any corporation, association, person, orpartnership, engaged in these or like enterprises, shall use, cross, oroccupy with its works the streets or alleys, public or private, or the publicgrounds, of any incorporated city or town, whether along, over or under thesame, without the consent of the corporate authorities thereof; and in caseany person shall be damaged in his property by any such use, occupation, orcrossing, such corporation, association, person, or partnership shall, beforeusing, crossing, or occupying such streets, alleys or public grounds, makecompensation therefor to the person so damaged. Such compensation, if theparties cannot agree upon the same, shall be ascertained in the modeprescribed in the laws regulating the exercise of the right of eminent domain.

(Code 1919, § 3882.)