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The Board may expend from state highway construction funds of the highway construction district where the ferries are located and are under the Board’s control at any time such sums as may be necessary to acquire or establish, maintain, and operate any such ferry.\n\t\tThe Board may operate such ferry either as a free or toll ferry and may establish a toll for the use of such ferry at such rates as are deemed by the Board to be reasonable and proper without regulation by any other governmental body.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":205385,"text":"The Board may acquire by purchase, condemnation, or gift any ferry within the Commonwealth that forms a connecting link in a state highway and may purchase all equipment and other things necessary for the establishment of new ferries to become connecting links in the primary or secondary state highway system, whenever it shall determine such action to be advisable and expedient. 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 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 1970, chapter 322; in 2014, chapter 805<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":206139,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56032,"identifier":"33.2-600","token":"33.2\/II\/6\/33.2-600","url":"\/33.2-600\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-600\/","token":"33.2\/II\/6\/33.2-600","dublin_core":{"Title":"Acquisition or establishment of ferries","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-600","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Board<\/span> may acquire by purchase, condemnation, or gift any ferry within the Commonwealth that forms a connecting link in a state highway and may purchase all equipment and other things necessary for the establishment of new ferries to become connecting links in the primary or secondary state highway system, whenever it shall determine such action to be advisable and expedient. The Board<\/span> may expend from state highway construction<\/span> funds of the highway construction<\/span> district where the ferries are located and are under the Board<\/span>’s control at any time such sums as may be necessary to acquire or establish, maintain, and operate any such ferry.\n\t\tThe Board<\/span> may operate such ferry either as a free or toll ferry and may establish a toll for the use of such ferry at such rates as are deemed by the Board<\/span> to be reasonable and proper without regulation by any other governmental body.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nACQUISITION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF FERRIES (\u00a7 33.2-600)\n\nThe Board may acquire by purchase, condemnation, or gift any ferry within the\nCommonwealth that forms a connecting link in a state highway and may purchase\nall equipment and other things necessary for the establishment of new ferries to\nbecome connecting links in the primary or secondary state highway system,\nwhenever it shall determine such action to be advisable and expedient. The Board\nmay expend from state highway construction funds of the highway construction\ndistrict where the ferries are located and are under the Board’s control\nat any time such sums as may be necessary to acquire or establish, maintain, and\noperate any such ferry.\n\t\tThe Board may operate such ferry either as a free or toll ferry and may\nestablish a toll for the use of such ferry at such rates as are deemed by the\nBoard to be reasonable and proper without regulation by any other governmental\nbody.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 33-209; 1970, c. 322, \u00a7 33.1-254; 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}}