CODE OF VIRGINIA ACCEPTANCE OF FEDERAL FUNDS, GIFTS, ETC (ยง 45.1-197.7) The Director is authorized to accept federal funds or gifts or grants from any source for the purposes of this article and is further authorized to acquire by gift or purchase, but not by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, such orphaned lands as in his judgment is in the public interest and to utilize any such funds, gifts or grants for the purposes of this article. HISTORY: 1978, c. 634.