2011 Code of Virginia
Title 33.1 HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES.
Chapter 1 Commonwealth Transportation Board and Highways Generally (33.1-1 thru 33.1-223.9)
33.1-202 Landowners may erect and maintain gates across private roads
33.1-202. Landowners may erect and maintain gates across private roads.
Any person owning land over which another or others have a private road or right-of-way may, except when it is otherwise provided by contract, erect and maintain gates across such roads or right-of-way at all points at which fences extend to such roads on each side thereof; provided, however, that a court of competent jurisdiction may, upon petition, where it is alleged and proved by petitioner that the gates have been willfully and maliciously erected, may require the said landowner to make such changes therein as may be necessary and reasonable in the use of said roads for both the landowner and the petitioner.
(Code 1950, 33-119; 1952, c. 695; 1970, c. 322.)
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