2014 Virginia Code
Title 33.1 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
§ 33.1-155. (Repealed effective October 1, 2014) Alternative procedure for abandonment of old road or crossing to extent of alteration


VA Code § 33.1-155 (2014) What's This?

The Commissioner may declare any road in the secondary system or any road in the secondary system containing a railway-highway grade crossing abandoned when (i) it has been or is altered and a new road which serves the same citizens as the old road is constructed in lieu thereof and approved by the Commissioner of Highways or (ii) the Chief Engineer of the Department of Transportation recommends that it is appropriate in connection with the completion of a construction or maintenance project. The old road and/or the public crossing may be abandoned to the extent of such alteration, but no further, by the entry by the Commissioner of such abandonment upon the records of the Department of Transportation.

Code 1950, ยง 33-76.12; 1950, p. 734; 1952, c. 127; 1970, c. 322; 2011, cc. 36, 152.

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