Chap. 450.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1984 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the alteration and discontinuance of county roads, and Pr aon

for an appeal.
Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
nineteen hundred and eighty-four of the Code of Virginia of nineteen
aa and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows:

Section 1984. Effect of alteration of road; proceedings to discon-
tinue; authority transferred to board of supervisors.—When any road is
altered, it shall be discontinued to the extent of such alterations and no
further. Any person may apply to have a county road or landing dis-
continued, after posting notice of the intended application on the first
day of a term of the circuit court at the front door of the courthouse of
the county and at two public places in the neighborhood. After said
notice has been published for at least twenty days, the board of super-
visors, at their next meeting, shall appoint not less than three nor more
than five viewers to view such road or landing, and report in writing
whether in their opinion, any, and if any, what inconvenience would re-
sult from discontinuing the same. Upon the said report and other evi-
dence, if any, and after the land proprietors along the road proposed to
be discontinued have been notified, the board of supervisors may di
continue such road or landing, taking care in every case of an estab-
lished post road not to discontinue the same until another has been sub-
stituted.

If such applicant, or any other person, interested in having said road
or landing discontinued, is dissatisfied with the decision of the board of
supervisors in respect to the discontinuing or refusing to discontinue
said road or landing, he may of right, within ten days from date of such
decision but not afterwards, appeal to the circuit court of said county
and the said court shall hear the matter de novo with the further right
of appeal, as provided by general law. Upon the hearing of said appeal,
the said court shall ascertain, and by its order determine, whether said
road or landing shall be discontinued and shall certify the same to the
board of supervisors, who shall proceed to carry out the judgment of
the court.

Provided that this act shall not alter or amend the provisions of any
existing local road law. |