Chap. 239.—An ACT to amend Chapter 64, Acts of Assembly 1895-1896, approved
January 16, 1896, which incorporated the city of Newport News, in the county
of Warwick, by adding a new section numbered 29-a, relating to powers of
the city as to limited access streets. {H 380

Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter sixty-four, Acts of Assembly, eighteen hundred
ninety-five-eighteen hundred ninety-six, approved January sixteen,
eighteen hundred ninety-six, be amended by adding a new section
numbered twenty-nine-a as follows:

Section 29-a. Limited access streets—(a) A limited access
street is defined as a street especially designated for through
traffic over which abutters have no easement or right of light, air,
or access to by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon
such limited access street.

(b) The city shall have the same power and authority with
respect to the planning, designation, acquisition, opening, construc-
tion, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, discontinuance,
and regulation of the use of limited access streets; the designation
of existing streets as limited access streets, and the extinguishment
of easements in connection therewith; the regulation and restric-
tions of access to such streets; the construction of service roads
in connection therewith; and all other authority with respect to
such streets, and incidental thereto as the State Highway Commis-
sion has under the provisions of chapter seventy-eight of the Acts
of the General Assembly, nineteen hundred forty-two, approved
February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred forty-two, or as said
State Highway Commission may hereafter be granted, by amend-
ment to said act or otherwise.