                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 CONTRACTS FOR MAINTENANCE OF COMPONENTS OF INTERSTATE SYSTEM (§ 33.2-301)

All maintenance on components of the Interstate System, excluding frontage
roads, shall be carried out under contracts awarded by the Commissioner of
Highways or the Board pursuant to §§ 33.2-209, 33.2-214, and 33.2-221, except
for instances where good and sufficient reasons for not doing so have been shown
in advance in writing by the Commissioner of Highways to the Board and to the
Chairmen of the House Committee on Transportation, the House Committee on
Appropriations, the House Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee on
Transportation, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations. Nothing
in this section shall be construed to prevent the Department from performing
emergency work at any time on the Interstate System with its own employees or
agents or to assume the maintenance responsibilities of a contractor who has
been determined to be in default or as a result of a contract termination.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 782, § 33.1-49.1; 2012, cc. 729, 733; 2014, c. 805.