                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RESUMPTION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR SECONDARY STATE HIGHWAYS BY COUNTIES (§
33.2-342)

Notwithstanding any provisions of § 11 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1932 and §§ 33.2-341, 33.2-343, 33.2-345, and 33.2-346, the Commissioner of
Highways, following receipt of a resolution adopted by the board of supervisors
of a county requesting such action, may enter into an agreement with any county
that desires to resume responsibility over all or any portion of the secondary
state highway system within such county&#8217;s boundaries for the purposes of
planning, constructing, maintaining, and operating such highways. Such agreement
shall specify the equipment, facilities, personnel, and funding that will be
provided to the county in order to implement such agreement&#8217;s provisions.
		Any county that resumes full responsibility for all of the secondary state
highway system within such county&#8217;s boundaries (i) shall have authority
and control over the secondary state highway system within its boundaries, (ii)
shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the secondary state highway system, and
(iii) shall receive payments in accordance with § 33.2-366. The resolution
requesting resumption of all responsibilities shall also include a request for
the transfer and release of all rights-of-way and rights of access along the
secondary state highway system within the county&#8217;s boundaries.

HISTORY: 2001, cc. 257, 273, 277, § 33.1-84.1; 2009, c. 476; 2014, c. 805.