2014 Virginia Code
Title 33.1 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
§ 33.1-202. (Repealed effective October 1, 2014) Landowners may erect and maintain gates across private roads


VA Code § 33.1-202 (2014) What's This?

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, ยง 33-119; 1952, c. 695; 1970, c. 322.

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