CHAPTER 402

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 33-141 of the Code of 1950,
relating to the powers of local road authorities for the
establishment of new roads and the alteration or change in
the location of any road now in the secondary system of
State Highways and abandonment of roads in the said

secondary system.
[ H 604 ]

Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 33-141 of the Code of 1950 be amended and re-
enacted as follows:
§ 33-141. Continuance of powers of county authorities.
—The local road authorities shall continue to have the powers
vested in them on June twentieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-
two, for the establishment of new roads in their respective
counties, which shall, upon such establishment, become parts
of the secondary system of State highways within such coun-
ties and they shall likewise have the power to alter or change
the location of any road now in the secondary system of State
highways within such counties or which may hereafter be-
come a part of the secondary system of State highways within
such counties; provided, however, that the State Highway
Commissioner shall be made a party to any proceeding before
the local road authorities for the establishment of any such
road or for the alteration or change of the location of any such
road; and provided further, that when any such board or com-
mission appointed by the board of supervisors or other govern-
ing body of a county to view a proposed road or to alter or
change the location of an existing road shall award damages
for the right of way for the same, in either case to be paid in
money, it may be paid by the board of supervisors or other gov-
erning body of the county out of the general county levy funds;
and, provided further, that no expenditure by the State shall be
required upon any new road so established or any old road the
location of which is altered or changed by the local road authori-
ties, except as may be approved by the Commissioner.* The
Commissioner, by and with the approval of the State Highway
Commission and the board of supervisors or other governing
body of a county shall have power and authority to make such
changes in routes in, and additions to, the secondary system of
State highways from time to time as the public safety or con-
venience may require.

The service of any process or notice in any such proceedings
upon the district engineer of the State Highway Department
having the supervision of maintenance and construction of high-
ways in any such county shall be termed sufficient service on the
Commissioner.