21-118.1 - Authority to acquire property from United States or any agency thereof. - Virginia Statutes

§ 21-118.1. Authority to acquire property from United States or any agencythereof.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the governing body of anysanitary district may, by ordinance or resolution, authorize the acquisitionand purchase from the United States, or any agency thereof, whether nowexisting or hereafter created, of any equipment, supplies, materials, orother property, real or personal, in such manner as such governing body maydetermine.

It is the purpose of this section to enable sanitary districts to secure fromtime to time promptly the benefits of acquisitions and purchases asauthorized by this section, to aid them in securing advantageous purchases,to prevent unemployment and thereby to assist in promotion of public welfareand to these ends such districts shall have power to do all things necessaryor convenient to carry out such purpose, in addition to the expressed powerconferred by this section. This section is remedial in nature and the powershereby granted shall be liberally construed.

(1945, p. 35; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 2734e.)