2014 Virginia Code
Title 33.1 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
§ 33.1-161. (Repealed effective October 1, 2014) Action of governing body

If a petition be not filed as aforesaid for a public hearing, or if after a public hearing is held, the governing body is satisfied that no public necessity exists for the continuance of the section of road as a public road, or the crossing as a public crossing, or that the welfare of the public would be served best by abandoning the section of road or the crossing, as a public road or crossing, it shall enter (i) within four months next after the thirty days during which notice was posted where no petition for a public hearing was filed, or (ii) within four months next after the public hearing an order on its minutes abandoning the section of road as a public road or the crossing as a public crossing, and thereupon the section of road shall cease to be a public road or if the governing body be not so satisfied it shall enter within the specified four months an order dismissing the application.

Code 1950, § 33-76.18; 1950, p. 735; 1970, c. 322; 1978, c. 187.