                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIMITATION ON CROSSING RIGHTS IF ALTERING, CLOSING OR OBSTRUCTING HIGHWAY OR
STREAM INVOLVED (§ 56-32)

No state highway or county road or stream, or watercourse, shall be altered,
closed or obstructed by any public service corporation for any of the purposes
mentioned in § 56-23 until it shall have first submitted plans and
specifications to the board of supervisors or other governing body aforesaid,
and to the Commissioner of Highways, of the proposed alteration, closing or
obstruction, and until after the plans and specifications shall have been first
approved in writing both by the board of supervisors or other governing body
aforesaid, and by the Commissioner of Highways. And in any such case such public
service corporation shall provide and construct an equally convenient highway or
waterway in lieu of any such highway or waterway so altered, closed or
obstructed.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3885; 1920, p. 413.