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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64541</law_id><section_number>33.2-342</section_number><catch_line>Resumption of responsibility for secondary state highways by counties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>33.2-208</reference></referred_to_by><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="II">Modes of Transportation: Highways, Bridges, Ferries, Rail, and Public Transportation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Highway Systems</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Secondary State Highway System</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding any provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;11 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932 and &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Maps of secondary state highway system" href="/33.2-341/">33.2-341</a>, <a class="law" title="Return after withdrawal from secondary state highway system" href="/33.2-343/">33.2-343</a>, <a class="law" title="Effect of election to determine return to the secondary state highway system" href="/33.2-345/">33.2-345</a>, and <a class="law" title="Machinery, etc., owned by returning county" href="/33.2-346/">33.2-346</a>, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner of Highways</span>, following receipt of a resolution adopted by the <span class="dictionary">board</span> of supervisors of a county requesting such action, may enter into an agreement with any county that desires to resume responsibility over all or any portion of the secondary state <span class="dictionary">highway</span> system within such county&#x2019;s boundaries for the purposes of planning, constructing, maintaining, and operating such highways. Such agreement shall specify the equipment, facilities, personnel, and funding that will be provided to the county in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to implement such agreement&#x2019;s provisions.
		Any county that resumes full responsibility for all of the secondary state <span class="dictionary">highway</span> system within such county&#x2019;s boundaries (i) shall have authority and control over the secondary state <span class="dictionary">highway</span> system within its boundaries, (ii) shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the secondary state <span class="dictionary">highway</span> system, and (iii) shall receive payments in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Funds for counties that have withdrawn or elect to withdraw from the secondary state highway system" href="/33.2-366/">33.2-366</a>. The resolution requesting resumption of all responsibilities shall also include a request for the transfer and release of all rights-of-way and rights of access along the secondary state <span class="dictionary">highway</span> system within the county&#x2019;s boundaries.</p></section></text><history>2001, cc. 257, 273, 277, &#xA7; 33.1-84.1; 2009, c. 476; 2014, c. 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
