Chap. 78.—An ACT to provide for and authorize the State Highway Commission
to designate, construct, maintain and improve limited access highways in the
State of Virginia. [S B 88]

| Approved February 26, 1942 |

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Section 1. A limited access highway is defined as a highway es-
pecially designed for through traffic, over which abutters have no ease-
ment or right of light, air, or access to by reason of the fact that their
oroperty abuts upon such limited access highway. __ ro
Section 2. The State Highway Commission shall have full power
ind authority to plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct,
mprove, maintain, discontinue and regulate the use of limited access
nighways, in the same manner in which it is now or may be authorized
‘o plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, main-
‘ain, discontinue and regulate the use of highways within this State. The
State Highway Commission shall also have any and all other additional
authority and power relative to such limited access highways as is vested
in it relative to highways, which shall include the authority and power
fo acquire by purchase, eminent domain, grant, or dedication, title to
such lands or rights of way for such said limited access highways.

Section 3. The State Highway Commission may designate an
existing highway as or included within a limited access highway and
existing easements of access, light or air may be extinguished by pur-
chase, eminent domain, or grant, in accordance with the methods of
obtaining rights of way for highway purposes.

Section 4. The State Highway Commission is authorized and em-
powered to regulate and restrict access to any limited access highway
established under the provisions of the preceding sections, from any
existing highway, road, street, or abutting property owner in such manner
as it is authorized to regulate and restrict traffic upon highways, and
access to any such limited access highways from any new highway, road
or street, which shall be established by and with the consent of the State
Highway Commission.

Section 5. The State Highway Commission is authorized to con-
struct service roads parallel to a limited access highway in order to pro-
vide access at designated points for property owners abutting on the
limited access highway, and after the construction of such service roads
shall maintain and regulate traffic over them.

Section 6. The State Highway Commission is authorized to accept
deeds providing for limited access for the purpose of crossing a limited
access highway where the property is owned by one person on both
sides of such road.

Section 7. The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized
and empowered to expend out of funds appropriated by the State High-
way Commission, such funds as may be necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of this act.

Section 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.