62.1-92 - Priority of location or appropriation; notice to owners of existing developments. - Virginia Statutes

§ 62.1-92. Priority of location or appropriation; notice to owners ofexisting developments.

No priority of location or appropriation shall be recognized by theCommission in its consideration of any application for a license, under thischapter, except that in case of an application for a license for anyreconstruction or enlargement of any existing development, the owner of suchdevelopment shall be entitled to priority over any other applicant for alicense for the construction of a development which would materially affectsuch existing development, and every such applicant for a license under thischapter shall give notice of his application within ten days after filing ofthe same with the State Corporation Commission to every other person, firm,association or corporation owning any other development which might beaffected thereby, whose application for a license under this chapter would beentitled to priority if such application were filed. In case of conflictbetween two or more applicants, the Commission may grant the license to suchapplicant as it may deem best in the light of the considerations hereinspecified.

(Code 1950, § 62-81; 1968, c. 659.)