62.1-149 - Items of cooperation to which localities may bind themselves. - Virginia Statutes

§ 62.1-149. Items of cooperation to which localities may bind themselves.

Such resolutions and ordinances may irrevocably bind such county, city ortown:

(1) To provide, free of cost to the United States the fee simple title tolands, perpetual and/or temporary easements, rights-of-way and any otherinterest in lands for cut-off bends, the laying of pipelines, erection ofdikes, sluiceways, spillways, dams, drains, deposit of dredged materials, andfor other purposes;

(2) To alter existing structures on such areas;

(3) To simultaneously dredge designated areas not covered by the federalproject when and where required;

(4) To construct and maintain public wharves and public roads leading thereto;

(5) To make contributions in money or property in lieu of providing disposalareas for dredged materials;

(6) To hold the United States safe and harmless against claims for damagesarising out of the project or work incident thereto;

(7) To remove sewer pipes and submarine cables;

(8) To construct and maintain marine railways for the public use; and

(9) To provide or satisfy any other items or conditions of local cooperationas stipulated in the congressional document covering the particular projectinvolved.

This section shall not be interpreted as limiting but as descriptive of theitems of local cooperation, the accomplishment of which counties, cities andtowns are herein authorized to irrevocably bind themselves; it being intendedto authorize counties, cities and towns to comply fully and completely withall of the items of local cooperation as contemplated by Congress and asstipulated in the congressional acts or documents concerned.

(Code 1950, § 62-117.2; 1968, c. 659.)