                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

USE OF STREETS, ETC., FOR TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITIES; REMOVAL AND ALTERATION
OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT; PERMITS AND CHARGES (§ 15.2-2015)

Any city or town may provide for the issuance of permits, under such terms and
conditions as they may impose, for the use of streets, highways, roads, alleys,
bridges, viaducts, subways and underpasses and other public rights-of-way and
places by railroads, buses, taxicabs and other vehicles for hire; may prescribe
the location in, under or over and provide for the issuance of permits for the
use of such public rights-of-way and places for the installation, maintenance
and operation of tracks, poles, wires, cables, pipes, conduits, bridges,
viaducts, subways, vaults, areas and cellars; may require tracks, poles, wires,
cables, pipes, conduits, bridges, viaducts, subways and underpasses to be
altered, removed or relocated either permanently or temporarily; may charge and
collect compensation for the privileges so granted; and may prohibit such use of
such public rights-of-way and places except as otherwise provided by law. No
such use shall be made of the streets, highways, roads, alleys, bridges,
viaducts, subways and underpasses without the consent of the city or town.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-77.56; 1958, c. 328; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-892; 1997,
c. 587.