                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

HIGHWAY AFFECTED (§ 21-359)

Where any public ditch, drain or watercourse established under the provisions of
this chapter crosses a public highway, the Department of Transportation shall
provide bridges or culverts of adequate capacity to permit the free flow of
water. The landowners in the drainage project shall bear the excavation cost for
such structures.
		Any government installation whether federal, state, county, city or town with
runoff or acres draining into such a watershed area will be considered a
landowner and shall be assessed on an acreage basis for drainage at the same
rate as any other landowner.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1764; 1924, p. 107; 1926, p. 617; 1954, c. 642.