<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63337</law_id><section_number>33.2-1721</section_number><catch_line> Cessation of tolls</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Transportation Funding and Development</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="17">Transportation Development and Revenue Bond Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When the particular revenue <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> issued for any <span class="dictionary">project</span> and the interest thereon have been paid, or a sufficient amount has been provided for their payment and continues to be held for that purpose, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall cease to charge tolls for the use of such <span class="dictionary">project</span> and thereafter such <span class="dictionary">project</span> shall be free; however, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may thereafter charge tolls for the use of any such <span class="dictionary">project</span> when tolls are required for maintaining, repairing, operating, improving, and reconstructing such <span class="dictionary">project</span>; when such tolls have been or are pledged by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> to the payment of revenue <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> issued under the provisions of this chapter for another <span class="dictionary">project</span> on approval of the General Assembly; or when such tolls are designated by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> to be deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund. However, any such pledge of tolls of a <span class="dictionary">project</span> to the payment of <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> issued for another <span class="dictionary">project</span> shall not be effective until the principal and interest of the <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> issued for the first mentioned <span class="dictionary">project</span> has been paid or provision made for their payment.
		The provisions of this section shall also apply to tolls on <span class="dictionary">projects</span> constructed pursuant to (i) the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District and Commission established in Chapter 22 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/33.2-2200/">33.2-2200</a> et seq.) and (ii) the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority established in Chapter 29 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/33.2-2900/">33.2-2900</a> et seq.), provided their governing bodies have acted as set forth in subdivision A 3 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Commonwealth Transportation Fund" href="/33.2-1524/">33.2-1524</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 33-247; 1970, c. 322, &#xA7; 33.1-287; 1986, Sp. Sess., c. 13;  2009, c. 471; 2014, cc. 469, 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
