2006 Code of Virginia § 33.1-58 - Power and authority of Board

33.1-58. Power and authority of Board.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board may plan, designate, acquire, open,construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon and regulatethe use of limited access highways, in the same manner in which it is now ormay be authorized to plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct,improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon and regulate the use of otherhighways within this Commonwealth. The Board shall also have any and allother additional authority and power relative to other highways, which shallinclude the right to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, grant or dedicationtitle to such lands or rights-of-way for such limited access highways.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, any highway, street, orportion thereof, to which access rights of abutters have been acquired by theCommonwealth Transportation Board and which is subsequently incorporated intothe street system of a city or town by any method, shall remain limitedaccess until and unless the governing body of the city or town, aftersecuring the approval of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, acts todiscontinue such limited access feature.

(Code 1950, 33-38; 1950, p. 476; 1962, c. 348; 1970, c. 322.)