CHAPTER 422

An Act to amend chapter 1 of Title 15 of the Code of Virginia by adding
- @ section thereto so as to provide for and authorize cities and towns
to establish, control, designate, construct, maintain and improve
limited access streets and to regulate and restrict the use thereof.
[S 306]
- Approved April 1, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter 1 of Title 15 of the Code of Virginia be amended by
adding a section thereto between § 15-7 and § 15-8 numbered § 15-7.1 as
ollows:

§ 15-7.1. Limited access streets.—Cities and towns shall have the same
power and authority with respect to the planning, designation, acquisition,
opening, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, discon-
tinuance and regulation of the use of limited access streets; the designation
of existing streets as limited access streets, and the extinguishment of ease-
ments and rights in connection therewith; the regulation and restriction
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 Commission has under the provi-
sions of article 3 of chapter 1 of Title 33 of the Code of Virginia, or as
the Commission may be hereafter granted by amendment thereof or
otherwise. The term “limited access street” as used in this section shall
mean a street especially designed 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.