                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWER AND AUTHORITY OF COMMONWEALTH TRANSPORTATION BOARD RELATING TO THE
INTERSTATE SYSTEM, GENERALLY (§ 33.2-300)

The Board may plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve,
maintain, discontinue, abandon, and regulate the use of the Interstate System in
the same manner in which it is now or may be authorized to plan, designate,
acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon,
and regulate the use of the primary state highway system. The Board may vacate,
close, or change the location of any highway or street in the manner in which it
is now authorized by law to vacate, close, or change the location of a highway
in the primary state highway system. The Board has any and all other authority
and power relative to the Interstate System as is vested in it relative to
highways in the primary state highway system, including the right to acquire by
purchase, eminent domain, grant, or dedication title to lands or rights-of-way
for such interstate highways whether within or without the limits of any city or
town, and in addition thereto has such other power, control, and jurisdiction
necessary to comply with the provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956
and all acts amendatory or supplementary thereto, all other provisions of law to
the contrary notwithstanding.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-36.2; 1958, c. 589; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-49; 2014, c.
805.