                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CLOSING HIGHWAYS FOR SAFETY OF PUBLIC OR PROPER COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION;
INJURY TO BARRIERS, SIGNS, ETC (§ 33.2-238)

If it appears to the Commissioner of Highways necessary for the safety of the
traveling public or for proper completion of work that is being performed to
close any highway under his jurisdiction to all traffic or any class of traffic,
the Commissioner of Highways may close, or cause to be closed, the whole or any
portion of such highway deemed necessary to be excluded from public travel and
may exclude all or any class of traffic from such closed portion. While any such
highway or portion thereof is so closed, or while any such highway or portion
thereof is in process of construction or maintenance, the Commissioner of
Highways, or contractor under authority from the Commissioner of Highways, may
erect, or cause to be erected, suitable barriers or obstructions thereon, may
post, or cause to be posted, conspicuous notices to the effect that the highway
or portion thereof is closed and may place warning signs, lights, and lanterns
on such highway or portion thereof. When such highway is closed for the safety
of the traveling public or in process of construction or maintenance as provided
in this section, any person who willfully breaks down, drives into new
construction work, removes, injures, or destroys any such barrier or barriers or
obstructions, tears down, removes, or destroys any such notices, or
extinguishes, removes, injures, or destroys any such warning lights or lanterns
so erected, posted, or placed is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-109; 1958, c. 547; 1968, c. 162; 1970, c. 322, §
33.1-193; 2014, c. 805.