CHAPTER 695

An Act to amend and reenact § 33-119 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the erection and maintenance of gates across private roads by
landowners and providing for relief in certain cases of hardship.

[H 693]
Approved April 7, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
tT That § 33-119 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
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§ 33-119. Any person owning land over which another or others
have a private road or right of way may, except when it is otherwise
provided by contract, erect and maintain gates across such roads or right
of way at all points at which fences extend to such roads on each side
thereof; provided, however, that a court of competent jurisdiction may,
upon petition, where it is alleged and proved by petitioner that the gates
have been willfully and maliciously erected, may require the said land-
owner to make such changes therein as may be necessary and reasonable
in the use of said roads for both the landowner and the petitioner.