10.1-1703 - Acquisition of title subject to reservation of farming or timber rights; acquisition of easements, etc.; property to be made available for farming and timber uses. - Virginia Statutes

§ 10.1-1703. Acquisition of title subject to reservation of farming or timberrights; acquisition of easements, etc.; property to be made available forfarming and timber uses.

Any public body is authorized to acquire (i) unrestricted fee simple title totracts; (ii) fee simple title to such land subject to reservation of rightsto use such lands for farming or to reservation of timber rights thereon; or(iii) easements in gross or such other interests in real estate of not lessthan five years' duration as are designed to maintain the character of suchland as open-space land. Any such interest may also be perpetual. Wheneverpracticable in the judgment of the public body, real property acquiredpursuant to this chapter shall be made available for agricultural andtimbering uses which are compatible with the purposes of this chapter.

(1966, c. 461, § 10-158; 1974, c. 259; 1981, c. 64; 1988, c. 891.)