                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACTION OF GOVERNING BODY (§ 33.2-919)

If a petition for a public hearing is not filed as provided in § 33.2-918, or
if after a public hearing is held the governing body is satisfied that no public
necessity exists for the continuance of the section of road as a public road or
the railroad crossing as a public railroad crossing or that the welfare of the
public would be served best by abandoning the section of road or the railroad
crossing as a public road or public railroad crossing, the governing body shall
(i) within four months of the 30-day period during which notice was posted where
no petition for a public hearing was filed or (ii) within four months after the
public hearing adopt an ordinance or resolution abandoning the section of road
as a public road or the railroad crossing as a public railroad crossing, and
with that ordinance or resolution the section of road shall cease to be a public
road. If the governing body is not so satisfied, it shall dismiss the
application within the applicable four months provided in this section.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-76.18; 1950, p. 735; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-161; 1978,
c. 187; 2014, c. 805.