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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73601</law_id><section_number>33.2-502</section_number><catch_line>Designation of HOT lanes</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>33.2-2612</reference><reference>33.2-503</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="5">High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes and High-Occupancy Toll Lanes</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may designate one or more lanes of any highway, including lanes that may previously have been designated <span class="dictionary">HOV lanes</span> under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Designation of HOV lanes; use of such lanes; penalties" href="/33.2-501/">33.2-501</a>, in the <span class="dictionary">Interstate System</span>, primary state highway system, or <span class="dictionary">National Highway System</span>, or any portion thereof, as <span class="dictionary">HOT lanes</span>. In making <span class="dictionary">HOT lanes</span> designations, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall also specify the <span class="dictionary">high-occupancy requirement</span> and conditions for use of such <span class="dictionary">HOT lanes</span> or may authorize the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner of Highways</span> to make such determination consistent with the terms of a comprehensive agreement executed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Comprehensive agreement" href="/33.2-1808/">33.2-1808</a>. The <span class="dictionary">high-occupancy requirement</span> for a <span class="dictionary">HOT lanes</span> facility constructed or operated as a result of the Public-Private Transportation Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/33.2-1800/">33.2-1800</a> et seq.) shall not be less than three.</p></section></text><history>2004, c. 783, &#xA7; 33.1-56.2; 2014, c. 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
