25.1-236 - Contracts made part of report.
§ 25.1-236. Contracts made part of report.
If the petitioner and the person whose property is being condemned under theprovisions of this chapter shall, before the report of just compensation ismade, (i) enter into any contract in relation to building, operating, ormaintaining the proposed work, or in relation to fencing, culverts, depots,stations, crossings, sidings, cattle guards, damage from fire, injury to ordestruction of property, real or personal, or like matters, and (ii)introduce such contract at the trial of the issue of just compensation, suchcontract shall be accepted and made a part of the report of the award of justcompensation. Upon confirmation of such report, the contract shall thereafterrun as a covenant with the land or with the interest or estate therein taken.
(Code 1919, § 4380; Code 1950, §§ 25-36, 25-37; 1962, c. 426, § 25-46.23;2003, c. 940.)