                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHO TO PERMIT LAYING OF PIPELINES IN ROADS (§ 56-258)

The Commissioner of Highways or the board of supervisors or other governing body
in any county that has withdrawn its county roads from the secondary system of
state highways is authorized to enter into contract with water companies or
other corporations or persons to lay water pipelines along the rights-of-way of
public roadways and turnpikes. Such water pipelines shall be laid in such manner
as not to obstruct passage thereon when completed, and in any such contract the
Commissioner of Highways or any such board of supervisors or other governing
body, as the case may be, shall provide that the parties so laying such
pipelines shall, at all times, exercise reasonable care not to obstruct such
roadways while laying, repairing or replacing such pipe.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 4060; 2013, cc. 585, 646.