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2002 SESSION


CHAPTER 540
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 36-27.2, relating to housing authorities; eminent domain.
[H 845]
Approved April 5, 2002

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 36-27.2 as follows:

§ 36-27.2. Limitations on certain housing authorities; exception.

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 36-27, no housing authority transacting business and exercising powers as provided in § 36-4 in the City of Norfolk shall be authorized after July 1, 2007, to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, any real property located within the boundaries set forth in the Conservation and Redevelopment Plan for the East Ocean View Conservation and Redevelopment Project adopted July 1989, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to such plan adopted September 1992.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any such real property for which an offer has been made by such housing authority or for which such authority has initiated condemnation proceedings prior to July 1, 2007.