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Title 33.1 HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES.
Chapter 1 Commonwealth Transportation Board and Highways Generally (33.1-1 thru 33.1-223.9)
- 33.1-1 State Highway and Transportation Board continued as Commonwealth Transportation Board; number and t...
- 33.1-2 Residence requirements; statewide interest
- 33.1-3 Secretary to be Chairman; Commissioner of Highways
- 33.1-4 How testimony of members of Board and Commissioner taken in civil proceedings
- 33.1-5 Description unavailable
- 33.1-6 Meetings; minutes
- 33.1-7 Offices
- 33.1-8 Employees; delegation of responsibilities
- 33.1-9 Oaths and bonds of members of Board
- 33.1-10 Salaries and expenses; how paid
- 33.1-11 Defense of employees
- 33.1-12 General powers and duties of Board, etc.; definitions
- 33.1-12.01 Fees for participating in the Integrated Directional Sign Program
- 33.1-12.1 Agreements between Commissioner and certain cities and towns
- 33.1-12.2 Commissioner to establish community service landscaping program
- 33.1-13 General powers of Commissioner
- 33.1-13.01 , 33.1-13.02
- 33.1-13.03 Annual report by the Virginia Department of Transportation.
- 33.1-13.04 Certified mail; subsequent mail or notices may be sent by regular mail.
- 33.1-13.1 Policy of the Commonwealth regarding use of highways by motorcycles; discrimination by political su...
- 33.1-14 Bookkeeping system
- 33.1-15 Description unavailable
- 33.1-16 Furnishing information regarding right-of-way transactions
- 33.1-17 Description unavailable
- 33.1-18 Location of routes
- 33.1-19 Effect of Board's rules and regulations
- 33.1-19.1 Environmental permits for highway projects; timely review
- 33.1-20 Description unavailable
- 33.1-21 Description unavailable
- 33.1-22 Copies of rules as evidence
- 33.1-23 Sections not applicable to certain engines and tractors
- 33.1-23.01 Definition of the term "allocation"
- 33.1-23.02 Definition of the terms "maintenance" and "asset management."
- 33.1-23.03 Board to develop and update Statewide Transportation Plan
- 33.1-23.03:001 Statewide Pedestrian Policy
- 33.1-23.03:002 Goals for addressing transportation needs of populations with limited mobility
- 33.1-23.03:01 Distribution of certain federal funds
- 33.1-23.03:1 Transportation Trust Fund
- 33.1-23.03:2 Commonwealth Port Fund, Commonwealth Airport Fund and Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund
- 33.1-23.03:3 Description unavailable
- 33.1-23.03:4 Toll Facilities Revolving Account
- 33.1-23.03:5 Administration of Transportation Trust Fund
- 33.1-23.03:6 Funding for extraordinary repairs
- 33.1-23.03:7 Liability exemption of officers and employees
- 33.1-23.03:8 Priority Transportation Fund established
- 33.1-23.03:9 Concession Payments Account
- 33.1-23.03:10 Tolls for use of Interstate Highway System components
- 33.1-23.04 Description unavailable
- 33.1-23.05 Revenue-sharing funds for systems in certain counties, cities, and towns
- 33.1-23.1 Allocation of funds among highway systems
- 33.1-23.1:1 Unpaved secondary road fund created; allocations
- 33.1-23.1:2 Allocation of funds for interstate match
- 33.1-23.2 Allocation of construction funds for primary system and interstate match
- 33.1-23.3 Allocation of construction funds for urban system highways
- 33.1-23.4 Allocation of construction funds within secondary system
- 33.1-23.4:01 Allocation of proceeds of Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Capital Projects Revenue Bond...
- 33.1-23.5 Description unavailable
- 33.1-23.5:1 Funds for counties which have withdrawn or elect to withdraw from the secondary system of state hig...
- 33.1-23.5:2 Use of recycled materials in highway construction
- 33.1-23.6 Legislative findings and purposes.
- 33.1-23.7 Definitions.
- 33.1-23.8 Creation of the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank.
- 33.1-23.9 Eligibility and project selection.
- 33.1-23.10 Grants from the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
- 33.1-23.11 Project Obligations.
- 33.1-23.12 Exemption from taxation; exemption from Virginia Public Procurement Act.
- 33.1-23.13 Reporting requirement.
- 33.1-23.14 Short title; definitions.
- 33.1-23.15 Authorization of Notes.
- 33.1-23.16 Use of proceeds of Notes.
- 33.1-23.17 Details of Notes.
- 33.1-23.18 Form and manner of execution; signature of person ceasing to be officer.
- 33.1-23.19 Authority to obtain GARVEE approval.
- 33.1-23.20 Expenses.
- 33.1-23.21 Deposit of proceeds.
- 33.1-23.22 Other funds.
- 33.1-23.23 Application of project-specific reimbursements.
- 33.1-23.24 Investment of proceeds and other amounts.
- 33.1-23.25 Exemption from taxation.
- 33.1-23.26 Notes as eligible securities.
- 33.1-24 , 33.1-24.1
- 33.1-25 Primary system of state highways; "State Highway System" construed
- 33.1-26 through 33.1-30
- 33.1-31 Certain park roads in primary system
- 33.1-32 Maintenance of roads, bridges and toll facilities within boundaries of state parks
- 33.1-33 Maintenance of roads at state institutions
- 33.1-34 Transfer of roads, etc., from secondary to primary system; additions to primary system
- 33.1-35 Transfer of roads, etc., from primary to secondary system
- 33.1-36 Map
- 33.1-37 Establishment, construction and maintenance exclusively by Commonwealth; funds
- 33.1-38 Description unavailable
- 33.1-39 Bypasses through or around cities and incorporated towns
- 33.1-40 Description unavailable
- 33.1-41 Description unavailable
- 33.1-41.1 Payments to cities and certain towns for maintenance of certain highways
- 33.1-42 Incorporation into State Highway System of connecting streets and roads in certain other towns and ...
- 33.1-43 , 33.1-43.1
- 33.1-43.2 Minimum road standards for certain towns
- 33.1-44 Matching highway funds; funding of urban system construction projects, generally
- 33.1-45 Description unavailable
- 33.1-46 Character of signs, etc., in event of matching public funds
- 33.1-46.1 Highway aid to mass transit
- 33.1-46.2 Designation of high-occupancy vehicle lanes; use of such lanes; penalties
- 33.1-46.3 Agreements between Board and certain counties for operation of certain devices on state highway...
- 33.1-46.4 Counties may perform certain maintenance
- 33.1-47 Approval of markings and traffic lights erected by towns
- 33.1-47.1 Landscape studies for urban highway construction projects
- 33.1-48 Interstate System authorized; what constitutes
- 33.1-49 Power and authority of Commonwealth Transportation Board generally
- 33.1-49.1 Contracts for maintenance of components of Interstate Highway System
- 33.1-50 Funds for establishment and maintenance generally
- 33.1-51 Portions of System within cities and towns
- 33.1-52 Transfer of roads, etc., from secondary and primary systems to Interstate System
- 33.1-53 Transfer of roads, etc., from Interstate System to secondary or primary system
- 33.1-54 Applicability of {{ 33.1-49 through 33.1-53, to toll projects
- 33.1-55 Relocation or removal of utility facilities within projects on Interstate System
- 33.1-56 Relocation or removal of utility facilities within projects on interstate system; additional provis...
- 33.1-56.1 Definitions
- 33.1-56.2 Designation of HOT lanes
- 33.1-56.3 HOT lanes enforcement
- 33.1-56.4 Release of personal information; penalty
- 33.1-56.5 Exclusion from other laws
- 33.1-57 "Limited access highway" defined
- 33.1-58 Power and authority of Board
- 33.1-59 Designating existing highway as limited access highway; extinguishing easements of access
- 33.1-60 Business enterprises restricted
- 33.1-61 Parallel service roads; standards for access, service, etc., roads
- 33.1-62 Designation
- 33.1-63 "Virginia byway" defined; preference in selecting
- 33.1-64 "Scenic highway" defined
- 33.1-65 Signs
- 33.1-66 Acquisition of adjacent land
- 33.1-67 Secondary system of highways
- 33.1-68 Certain school roads in secondary system
- 33.1-69 Control, supervision and management
- 33.1-69.001 Design standards for state secondary highway system components
- 33.1-69.01 Department to install and maintain certain signs
- 33.1-69.1 Transfer of control, etc., of landings, docks and wharves to Department of Game and Inland Fisherie...
- 33.1-69.2 Relocation or removal of utility facilities within secondary highway construction project...
- 33.1-70 Description unavailable
- 33.1-70.01 Annual meeting with county officers; six-year plan for secondary highways; certain reimbursements r...
- 33.1-70.1 Requesting Department to hard-surface secondary roads; paving of certain secondary roads within exi...
- 33.1-70.2 Emergency paving of unpaved secondary roads; notice and public hearing required
- 33.1-70.3 Requirements for taking new streets into state secondary highway system
- 33.1-71 Description unavailable
- 33.1-72 Description unavailable
- 33.1-72.1 Taking certain streets into secondary system
- 33.1-72.2 Funds allocated to counties for Rural Addition Program; street standards
- 33.1-73 through 33.1-75
- 33.1-75.1 Description unavailable
- 33.1-75.2 Contributions to primary or secondary road construction by counties
- 33.1-75.3 Construction and improvement of primary or secondary highways by counties
- 33.1-76 through 33.1-78.1
- 33.1-79 Maintenance, etc., of streets and roads in certain towns from secondary funds
- 33.1-80 , 33.1-81
- 33.1-82 Maintenance, etc., by Commissioner of Highways when no request for allocation
- 33.1-83 Description unavailable
- 33.1-84 Maps of secondary system
- 33.1-84.1 Resumption of responsibility for secondary highways by counties
- 33.1-85 Return after withdrawal from secondary system
- 33.1-86 Election to determine return
- 33.1-87 Effect of election
- 33.1-88 Machinery, etc., owned by returning county
- 33.1-89 Power to acquire lands, etc., by purchase, gift or eminent domain; conveyance to municipality afte...
- 33.1-89.1 Limitation on power of eminent domain
- 33.1-89.2 Additional power to acquire lands, etc., by purchase, gift or eminent domain
- 33.1-90 Acquisition of real property which may be needed for transportation projects; sale of certain real ...
- 33.1-90.1 Description unavailable
- 33.1-90.2 Same; reconveyance where property deemed suitable for mass transit purposes
- 33.1-91 Authority to acquire entire tract of land, or parcel thereof, when only part to be utilized for hig...
- 33.1-91.1 Authority to acquire land to replace parkland; applicability
- 33.1-92 Acquisition of residue parcels declared to be in public interest
- 33.1-93 Use and disposition of residue parcels of land
- 33.1-94 Right to enter on land to ascertain its suitability for highway and other transportation purposes; ...
- 33.1-95 Limitations in Title 25.1 not applicable to Commissioner
- 33.1-95.1 Notice of exercise of eminent domain power; evidence of value
- 33.1-96 Acquisition of interests for exchange with railroad, public utility company, public service corpora...
- 33.1-97 Acquisition of land in median strips of highways for public mass transportation; disposition of suc...
- 33.1-98 Procedure in general; suits in name of Commissioner; survival; validation of suits; notice of filin...
- 33.1-99 Description unavailable
- 33.1-100 Description unavailable
- 33.1-101 through 33.1-105
- 33.1-106 Description unavailable
- 33.1-107 through 33.1-115
- 33.1-116 Description unavailable
- 33.1-117 Taking road materials from streams, rivers and watercourses
- 33.1-118 Description unavailable
- 33.1-119 Authority to take possession and title to property before or during condemnation; purpose and inten...
- 33.1-120 Payments into court or filing certificate of deposit before entering upon land
- 33.1-121 Payment of certificates of deposit; notice to owner
- 33.1-122 Recordation of certificates; transfer of title or interest; land situate in two or more counties o...
- 33.1-123 Certificates to describe land and list owners
- 33.1-124 Proceedings for distribution of funds; effect of acceptance of payments; evidence as to amount of d...
- 33.1-125 Reformation, alteration, revision, amendment or invalidation of certificate
- 33.1-126 Description unavailable
- 33.1-127 When condemnation proceedings instituted; payment of compensation or damages; order confirming awar...
- 33.1-128 Awards in greater or lesser amounts than deposit; interest
- 33.1-129 Agreements as to compensation; petition and order of court thereon; disposition of deposi...
- 33.1-130 Enhancement to be offset against damage
- 33.1-131 Description unavailable
- 33.1-132 Remedy of landowners under certain conditions
- 33.1-132.1 through 33.1-132.11
- 33.1-133 Commissioner may enter into agreement with person, church, association, etc
- 33.1-134 Commissioner may file petition for condemnation when no agreement can be reached; notice of condemn...
- 33.1-135 Contents of petition for condemnation
- 33.1-136 Removal and reinterment of remains; other proceedings
- 33.1-137 Fund established
- 33.1-138 How fund expended
- 33.1-139 Procedure for acquisition of properties
- 33.1-140 Sale or lease of properties acquired
- 33.1-141 Amount to be set aside annually for fund
- 33.1-142 Deposit in fund of amount expended in acquisition of properties
- 33.1-143 Intention of article
- 33.1-144 Discontinuance of road or railway crossing as part of State Highway System
- 33.1-145 Abandonment of road or crossing; procedure
- 33.1-145.1 Grade crossing closing and safety
- 33.1-146 Effect of such abandonment
- 33.1-147 Appeal to circuit court
- 33.1-148 Alternative procedure for abandonment of old road or crossing to extent of alteration
- 33.1-149 Conveying sections of roads or other property no longer necessary
- 33.1-150 Discontinuance of road, public landing, or railway crossing as part of secondary system; procedure...
- 33.1-151 Abandonment of road, landing, or crossing; procedure
- 33.1-152 Appeal to circuit court
- 33.1-152.1 Permissible uses by counties of certain discontinued secondary system highways
- 33.1-153 Effect of abandonment
- 33.1-154 Conveying sections of roads, public landings, or other property no longer necessary
- 33.1-155 Alternative procedure for abandonment of old road or crossing to extent of alteration
- 33.1-156 Application of article; "road" defined
- 33.1-157 Abandonment of certain roads and railway crossings by governing body of county
- 33.1-158 Notice of proposed abandonment
- 33.1-159 Petition for abandonment
- 33.1-160 Petition for hearing on proposed abandonment
- 33.1-161 Action of governing body
- 33.1-162 Appeal to circuit court
- 33.1-163 Effect of abandonment
- 33.1-163.1 Recordation of order of abandonment of roads or rail crossings by counties
- 33.1-164 Alternative procedure for abandonment of old road or crossing to extent of alteration
- 33.1-165 Conveying sections of roads or other property no longer necessary
- 33.1-166 Certain abandonments validated
- 33.1-166.1 Alternative method of abandoning roads
- 33.1-167 Chapter 20 of Title 15.2 not affected by Articles 10, 11 or 12
- 33.1-168 Abandonment of road in area to be flooded for purpose of municipal water supply
- 33.1-169 Procedure to secure such abandonment
- 33.1-170 Plans for relocation of such highway
- 33.1-171 Acquisition of lands for such relocation
- 33.1-172 Costs
- 33.1-173 Construction of relocated road
- 33.1-174 Approval or disapproval of such construction
- 33.1-175 New road part of secondary system; former road to vest in municipality
- 33.1-176 Duty of owner or occupier of dam
- 33.1-177 Duties of Commissioner
- 33.1-178 Raising or lowering floodgates
- 33.1-179 Reconstruction if dam is washed out
- 33.1-180 When larger spillway required
- 33.1-181 Article applicable to county roads
- 33.1-182 Route names
- 33.1-183 Statutes declaring streams and rivers to be highways continued
- 33.1-183.1 Authority to lease or convey airspace; terms of lease or conveyance; advertisement and bids; dispos...
- 33.1-184 Evidence as to existence of a public road
- 33.1-185 Advertising for bids
- 33.1-186 through 33.1-189
- 33.1-189.1 Specifications in purchasing lubricating motor oil
- 33.1-190 Construction by state or local employees
- 33.1-190.1 Value engineering required in certain projects
- 33.1-190.2 Expenditure of funds prohibited in connection with certain signs
- 33.1-190.3 Use of English units of measure in design or advertisement of projects
- 33.1-191 Contracts
- 33.1-192 Limitation of suits on such contracts entered into prior to July 1, 1976
- 33.1-192.1 Limitation of suits on contracts executed after June 30, 1976
- 33.1-193 Closing highways for safety of public or proper completion of construction; injury to barriers, sig...
- 33.1-194 Providing road detours
- 33.1-195 Sale of materials to, and use of equipment by, cities, towns, counties and school boards
- 33.1-196 Oiling of highways
- 33.1-197 Connections over shoulders of highways for intersecting private roads
- 33.1-198 Connections over shoulders of highways for intersecting commercial establishment entrance...
- 33.1-198.1 Comprehensive highway access management standards
- 33.1-199 Replacing entrances destroyed by Commissioner
- 33.1-200 Paying for damages sustained to personal property by reason of work projects, etc
- 33.1-200.1 Removal of snow from driveways of volunteer fire departments and rescue squads
- 33.1-200.2 Removal of snow and ice from public highways by private entities
- 33.1-201 Improving certain private roads and certain town streets and roads
- 33.1-202 Landowners may erect and maintain gates across private roads
- 33.1-203 Leaving gates open; penalty
- 33.1-204 Gate or other obstruction across private roadway leading to forestlands; penalty for removal or lea...
- 33.1-205 Sidewalks and walkways for pedestrian traffic
- 33.1-206 Erection and maintenance of newspaper route boxes
- 33.1-206.1 Roadside memorials; installation, maintenance, and removal standards; installation of nonconformin...
- 33.1-207 Facilities for persons desiring to fish from bridges
- 33.1-208 Use of streams and lowlands obstructed by newly constructed highways as fishponds or water storage ...
- 33.1-209 Prohibition of certain weeds and plants on highway rights-of-way
- 33.1-210 Livestock on right-of-way of any system of state highways
- 33.1-210.1 Description unavailable
- 33.1-210.2 Installation and maintenance of certain signs in counties and towns
- 33.1-211 Tramways and railways along or across public highways
- 33.1-212 Appeals
- 33.1-213 Private property not to be condemned for such tramways, etc
- 33.1-214 Contributions by towns or cities towards road building, bridges, etc
- 33.1-215 Federal aid
- 33.1-216 Authority of cities and towns and certain counties in connection with federal aid
- 33.1-217 Establishment of recreational waysides
- 33.1-218 Rules and regulations for use of recreational waysides
- 33.1-219 Such waysides part of interstate, primary or secondary system
- 33.1-220 Description unavailable
- 33.1-221 Funds for access roads to economic development sites and airports; construction, maintenance, etc....
- 33.1-221.1 Description unavailable
- 33.1-221.1:1 Fund for construction of industrial access railroad tracks
- 33.1-221.1:1.1 Rail Enhancement Fund
- 33.1-221.1:1.2 Shortline Railway Preservation and Development Fund
- 33.1-221.1:1.3 Intercity Passenger Rail Operating and Capital Fund.
- 33.1-221.1:2 U.S. Route 58 Corridor Development Program
- 33.1-221.1:3 Northern Virginia Transportation District Program
- 33.1-221.1:4 Description unavailable
- 33.1-221.1:5 Description unavailable
- 33.1-221.1:6 Description unavailable
- 33.1-221.1:7 Regional Transportation District Program
- 33.1-221.1:8 Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund
- 33.1-222 Maps or plats prepared at request and expense of local governing bodies and other groups; Departmen...
- 33.1-223 Fund for access roads and bikeways to public recreational areas and historical sites; construction...
- 33.1-223.1 Statements to be filed with Board by transit systems
- 33.1-223.2 Intermittent closing of roads subject to flooding; costs; application for permit; notice; issuance ...
- 33.1-223.2:1 Wetlands mitigation banking
- 33.1-223.2:2 Commissioner to provide written notice of decision to dispose of real property
- 33.1-223.2:3 Directional signs for certain educational institutions
- 33.1-223.2:4 Department to maintain drainage easements
- 33.1-223.2:5 Governor to waive certain state statutory mandates and regulations to expedite certain highway cons...
- 33.1-223.2:6 Funding and undertaking of pedestrian and/or bicycle projects apart from highway projects not proh...
- 33.1-223.2:7 Family restrooms
- 33.1-223.2:8 Highway safety corridor program
- 33.1-223.2:9 Comprehensive roadside management program
- 33.1-223.2:10 Department to maintain property acquired for construction of transportation projects
- 33.1-223.2:11 Location of landfill gas pipelines in highway right-of-way; Department to provide notice to countie...
- 33.1-223.2:12 Tolls may vary to encourage travel during off-peak hours
- 33.1-223.2:13 Construction of U.S. Route 29 bypass
- 33.1-223.2:14 Use of steel plates in connection with highway repairs
- 33.1-223.2:15 Use of certain federal "transportation enhancement" grants
- 33.1-223.2:16 Localities may use design-build contracts
- 33.1-223.2:17 Commonwealth Transportation Board may transfer interest in and control over certain highways, highw...
- 33.1-223.2:18 School bus stops indicators
- 33.1-223.2:19 Application and installation of traffic control measures
- 33.1-223.2:20 Application and installation of traffic control measures
- 33.1-223.2:21 Noise abatement practices and technologies
- 33.1-223.2:22 Contractor performance bonds for locally administered transportation improvement projects
- 33.1-223.2:23 Metropolitan planning organizations; membership
- 33.1-223.2:24 Secretary to submit annual report on actions taken to increase transit use, etc
- 33.1-223.2:25 Transportation planning duties and responsibilities of Metropolitan Planning Organizations...
- 33.1-223.3 Definitions
- 33.1-223.4 Creation and management of Fund
- 33.1-223.5 Deposit of money
- 33.1-223.6 Collection of money due to the Fund
- 33.1-223.7 Loans to municipal and county governments and to the Commonwealth
- 33.1-223.8 Annual audit
- 33.1-223.9 Liberal construction of article
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