33.1-236 - Appointment of commissioners to assess damages.

§ 33.1-236. Appointment of commissioners to assess damages.

If any tenant or proprietor desire, or if the board of supervisors or othergoverning body see cause for doing it, it shall appoint five disinterestedresident freeholders of the county as commissioners, any three of whom mayact, for the purpose of ascertaining a just compensation for the land to betaken for such road or bridge and damages, if any, to the residue, beyond thebenefits to be derived by such residue, from such road or bridge.

(Code 1950, § 33-149; 1964, c. 565; 1970, c. 322.)