§ 2.04. Eminent domain [and other powers relating to property].

The town of Blacksburg is hereby empowered to acquire by condemnation, gift, lease, purchase or bequest, property, real or personal, or any interest or estate therein, either within or without its corporate limits, for any of its proper purposes, and may sell, lease, manage, and control such property as its interests require, and in such manner as the Council deems expedient. Such power without its corporate limits shall be limited to acquisition for water and sewer pipes, or lines or related facilities.

The powers of eminent domain set forth in Title 15.1, Title 25, Chapter 1.1, and Title 33.1, Chapter 1 of the Code of Virginia as in force on January 1, 1975, as amended, and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, are hereby conferred upon the town of Blacksburg except that the powers of eminent domain specified in Chapter 1 Title 33.1 of such code shall be limited to acquisition for streets and for water and sewage facilities. Certificates issued pursuant to § 33.1-119 et seq., of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, may be issued by the town council, signed by the mayor and countersigned by the town manager. Such certificate shall have the same effect as certificates issued by the State Highway Commissioner, under the aforesaid laws, and may be issued in any case in which the town proposes to acquire property of any kind by the exercise of its powers of eminent domain for any lawful public purpose, whether within or without the town; provided, that the provisions of § 33.1-119 et seq., of the Code of Virginia, as amended, shall not be used except for the acquisition of lands or easements necessary for streets, water, sewer or utility pipes or lines or related facilities.