CHAPTER 348
An Act to amend and reenact § 33-38 of the Code of Virginia, dealing
with the power and authority of the State Highway Commission in
regard to limited access highways. 3 196

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Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

"i That § 33-38 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 33-38. Power and authority of Commission.—The State Highway
Commission may plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct,
improve, maintain, discontinue and regulate the use of limited access
highways, in the same manner in which it is now or may be authorized
to plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, main-
tain, discontinue and regulate the use of other highways within this
State. The Commission shall also have any and all other additional au-
thority and power relative * to other highways, which shall include the
right to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, grant or dedication title
to such lands or rights of way for such limited access highways.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, any highway,
street, or portion thereof, to which access rights of abutters have been
acquired by the State Highway Commission and which is subsequently
incorporated into the street system of a city or town by any method,
shall remain limited access until and unless the governing body of the
city or town, after securing the approval of the State Highway Commis-
sion, acts to discontinue such limited access feature.