                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OPTIONAL STATUS OF STREETS (§ 15.2-3918)

Any city formed under the provisions of this chapter may, by ordinance, elect to
continue receiving, for a period not to exceed ten years from the date of the
granting of a city charter, the full services of the Department of
Transportation in the same manner and to the same extent such services were
rendered prior to such city being formed. Upon the passage of such ordinance,
funds for the maintenance, construction or reconstruction of streets within the
areas formerly a county shall continue to be allocated as if such areas were
still in a county and the city shall not receive funds for maintenance,
construction or reconstruction of streets in those areas during the period the
Department of Transportation furnishes such services. In those areas where the
Department provides the above services, the governing body of the city shall
have control over the streets and highways to the same extent as was formerly
vested in the governing body of the county. At any time prior to the expiration
of the ten-year period, the governing body may elect, by ordinance, to place its
streets, or a portion of them, in the urban system of highways and shall receive
funds as provided by law for all cities.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 85, § 15.1-977.18:1; 1997, c. 587.