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All abandonments of roads sought to be effected according to subsection (b) of former \u00a7 15.1-482 before July 1, 1990, are hereby validated notwithstanding any defects or deficiencies in the proceeding, provided that property rights that have vested subsequent to the attempted abandonment are not impaired by such validation. The manner of reversion shall not be affected by this section.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":236640,"text":"As an alternative to the procedure for abandonment prescribed by this article, a road may be abandoned in accordance with the procedure for vacations in subdivision 2 of \u00a7 15.2-2272. All abandonments of roads sought to be effected according to subsection (b) of former \u00a7 15.1-482 before July 1, 1990, are hereby validated notwithstanding any defects or deficiencies in the proceeding, provided that property rights that have vested subsequent to the attempted abandonment are not impaired by such validation. 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This law was first created in 1990. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 198 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. Unfortunately, the 1990 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. 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 805<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":74652,"section_number":"15.2-2272","catch_line":"Vacation of plat after sale of lot","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-2272\/"}],"permalink":{"id":206441,"object_type":"law","relational_id":65000,"identifier":"33.2-925","token":"33.2\/II\/9\/3\/33.2-925","url":"\/33.2-925\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-925\/","token":"33.2\/II\/9\/3\/33.2-925","dublin_core":{"Title":"Alternative method of abandoning roads","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-925","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As an alternative to the procedure for abandonment<\/span> prescribed by this article, a road may be abandoned in accordance with the procedure for vacations in subdivision 2 of \u00a7 15.2-2272<\/a>. All abandonments<\/span> of roads sought to be effected according to subsection (b) of former \u00a7 15.1-482 before July 1, 1990, are hereby validated notwithstanding any defects or deficiencies in the proceeding, provided that property rights that have vested subsequent to the attempted abandonment<\/span> are not impaired by such validation. The manner of reversion shall not be affected by this section.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nALTERNATIVE METHOD OF ABANDONING ROADS (\u00a7 33.2-925)\n\nAs an alternative to the procedure for abandonment prescribed by this article, a\nroad may be abandoned in accordance with the procedure for vacations in\nsubdivision 2 of \u00a7 15.2-2272. All abandonments of roads sought to be effected\naccording to subsection (b) of former \u00a7 15.1-482 before July 1, 1990, are\nhereby validated notwithstanding any defects or deficiencies in the proceeding,\nprovided that property rights that have vested subsequent to the attempted\nabandonment are not impaired by such validation. The manner of reversion shall\nnot be affected by this section.\n\nHISTORY: 1990, c. 198, \u00a7 33.1-166.1; 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}}