15.2-5149 - Interference with railroad structures. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-5149. Interference with railroad structures.

Whenever any railroad tracks, pipes, poles, wires, conduits or otherstructures or facilities which are located in, along, across, over or underany public road, street, highway, alley or other public right-of-way becomean obstruction to, interfere with or are endangered by the construction,operation or maintenance of any system of the authority, the unit havingownership, control or jurisdiction over such public road, street, highway,alley or other public right-of-way may, as the exercise of an essentialgovernmental function, order the safeguarding, maintaining, relocating,rebuilding, removing or replacing of such railroad tracks, pipes, poles,wires, conduits or other structures or facilities by the owner thereof at theexpense of the authority, subject to the provisions of § 25.1-102.

(Code 1950, § 15-764.12; 1950, p. 1318; 1954, c. 554; 1958, cc. 400, 402;1960, c. 430; 1962, cc. 130, 623, § 15.1-1250; 1968, cc. 355, 556; 1970, cc.444, 617; 1972, c. 161; 1979, c. 280; 1980, c. 159; 1981, c. 610; 1983, c.422; 1984, c. 554; 1994, c. 477; 1997, c. 587.)