5.1-33 - Public purpose declared.
§ 5.1-33. Public purpose declared.
Any lands, easements or privileges acquired, owned, controlled or occupied byany cities, incorporated towns and counties of the Commonwealth under theprovisions of this article are hereby declared to be acquired, owned,controlled or occupied for a public purpose, and as a matter of publicnecessity; and such lands, easements and privileges so acquired, owned,controlled or occupied are hereby declared to be acquired, owned, controlledor occupied for public, governmental and municipal purposes, and to be withinthe definition of property acquired for public uses as such term is used inArticle I, Section 11 of the Constitution of Virginia.
(Code 1950, §§ 5-22, 5-30; 1966, c. 576; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 26.)