§ 33.2-900 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: “Abandonment” means that the public’s right to use a public highway, public landing, or public crossing has been extinguished. “Discontinuance” means that the Board has determined that a highway, landing, or crossing no longer serves the public convenience warranting its maintenance at public expense; it divests the Department from maintenance responsibilities. Discontinuance does not render a highway, landing, or crossing unavailable for public use.
History
This law was first created in 2014. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 805 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.
2014, c. 805.