                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECT OF ABANDONMENT (§ 33.2-904)

In the case of abandonment of a section of highway or a railroad crossing that
is part of the primary state highway system under the provisions of this
article, such section of highway or such railroad crossing shall not thereafter
be a public highway or public railroad crossing unless conveyed to the county or
town and subject to the authority of the local governing body. In the case of
proceedings for abandonment of any section of highway, not including a railroad
crossing situated less than one and one-half miles from another public crossing
over the same railroad, as a public highway under the provisions of this
article, the local governing body, insofar as such section of highway is located
within the county of such governing body, shall have authority to take over such
section of highway, not including the railroad crossing, and maintain it as a
public highway. However, the local governing body shall adopt an ordinance or
resolution to that effect and to give notice thereof to the Commissioner of
Highways within 30 days from the posting or publishing and mailing of the notice
of the application for the abandonment of such section of highway as a public
highway as provided in this article.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-76.3; 1950, p. 728; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-146; 2014,
c. 805.