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The Board shall also have any and all other additional authority and power relative to other highways, which shall include the right to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, grant, or dedication title to such lands or rights-of-way for such limited access highways.\n\t\tNotwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, any highway, street, or portion thereof to which access rights of abutters have been acquired by the Board and which is subsequently incorporated into the street system of a city or town by any method shall remain limited access until and unless the governing body of the city or town, after securing the approval of the Board, acts to discontinue such limited access feature.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":208574,"text":"The Board may plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon, and regulate the use of limited access highways in the same manner in which it is now or may be authorized to plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon, and regulate the use of other highways within the Commonwealth. 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 1962, chapter 348; in 1970, chapter 322; in 2014, chapter 805<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":79640,"section_number":"56-615","catch_line":" Right to occupy rights-of-way; location of rights-of-way","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-615\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":206055,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56950,"identifier":"33.2-401","token":"33.2\/II\/4\/33.2-401","url":"\/33.2-401\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-401\/","token":"33.2\/II\/4\/33.2-401","dublin_core":{"Title":"Power and authority of Commonwealth Transportation Board relating to limited access highways","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-401","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Board<\/span> may plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon, and regulate the use of limited access highways<\/span> in the same manner in which it is now or may be authorized to plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon, and regulate the use of other highways within the Commonwealth. The Board<\/span> shall also have any and all other additional authority and power relative to other highways, which shall include the right to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, grant, or dedication title to such lands or rights-of-way for such limited access highways<\/span>.\n\t\tNotwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, any highway<\/span>, street, or portion thereof to which access rights of abutters have been acquired by the Board<\/span> and which is subsequently incorporated into the street system of a city or town by any method shall remain limited access until and unless the governing body of the city or town, after securing the approval of the Board<\/span>, acts to discontinue such limited access feature.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPOWER AND AUTHORITY OF COMMONWEALTH TRANSPORTATION BOARD RELATING TO LIMITED\nACCESS HIGHWAYS (\u00a7 33.2-401)\n\nThe Board may plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve,\nmaintain, discontinue, abandon, and regulate the use of limited access highways\nin the same manner in which it is now or may be authorized to plan, designate,\nacquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon,\nand regulate the use of other highways within the Commonwealth. The Board shall\nalso have any and all other additional authority and power relative to other\nhighways, which shall include the right to acquire by purchase, eminent domain,\ngrant, or dedication title to such lands or rights-of-way for such limited\naccess highways.\n\t\tNotwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, any highway, street, or\nportion thereof to which access rights of abutters have been acquired by the\nBoard and which is subsequently incorporated into the street system of a city or\ntown by any method shall remain limited access until and unless the governing\nbody of the city or town, after securing the approval of the Board, acts to\ndiscontinue such limited access feature.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 33-38; 1950, p. 476; 1962, c. 348; 1970, c. 322, \u00a7\n33.1-58; 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}}