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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0682\">682<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0805\">805<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":205197,"object_type":"law","relational_id":87122,"identifier":"33.2-271","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/4\/33.2-271","url":"\/33.2-271\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-271\/","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/4\/33.2-271","dublin_core":{"Title":"Maintain property acquired for construction of transportation projects","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-271","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Subject to requirements of federal <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span> or regulations and prior to the initiation of project construction, the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> shall mow the grass and remove weeds and debris on property acquired for the construction of a transportation project by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span>. Such activities shall be performed in accordance with the same <span class=\"dictionary\">schedules<\/span> used for these activities on other rights-of-way maintained by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> in the same locality. At the written request of the local governing body or a locality, the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> shall provide additional services on the property acquired for the construction of a transportation project, including removal of abandoned vehicles. 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Such additional\nservices shall be funded from the construction allocations to the project.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 682, \u00a7 33.1-223.2:10; 2014, c. 805.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}