                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISCONTINUANCE OF A SECTION OF A HIGHWAY OR RAILROAD CROSSING (§ 33.2-901)

In any case in which a section of a highway is deemed by the Commissioner of
Highways no longer necessary for the uses of the primary state highway system,
or when, in laying out, constructing, or maintaining sections of highways in the
primary state highway system, a part of a highway has been or is straightened or
the location of a part of it is altered and a section of the highway is deemed
by the Commissioner of Highways no longer necessary for the uses of the primary
state highway system, the Commissioner of Highways, by and with the approval of
the Board, may discontinue such section of the highway as a part of the primary
state highway system. In addition, in any case in which an existing crossing by
such highway of the lines of a railroad company or a crossing by the lines of a
railroad company of such highway is deemed by the Commissioner of Highways no
longer necessary as a part of the primary state highway system, the Commissioner
of Highways, by and with the approval of the Board, may discontinue such
crossing as a part of the primary state highway system. Discontinuance under
this section does not constitute an abandonment of such highway as a public
highway or such crossing as a public crossing unless the procedure conforms to
§ 33.2-902.
		The opening of the new section of highway by the Commissioner of Highways and
the entry by the Board upon its minutes of its approval of the discontinuance of
the section of the highway or the railroad crossing shall be sufficient to
constitute such discontinuance.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-76.1; 1950, p. 727; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-144; 2014,
c. 805.