An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1960 |
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Law Number | 546 |
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Law Body
CHAPTER 546
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered
83-117.2 through 38-117.4, to authorize the State Highway Commis-
sion, when a portion of a tract of land is to be utilized for rights of
way or other highway purposes, to acquire the entire tract of land ora
part thereof, under conditions, and to dispose of residue parcels.
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Approved March 31, 1960
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding sections numbered
33-117.2 through 33-117.4 as follows:
§ 33-117.2. In acquiring rights of way for highway construction,
reconstruction or improvement, and lands incidental to such construction,
reconstruction or improvement, the State Highway Commission is author-
ized and empowered, whenever a portion of a tract of land is to be utilized
for right of way, or a purpose incidental to the construction, reconstruc-
tion or improvement of a public highway, to acquire by purchase or gift,
the entire tract of land or any part thereof, whenever the remainder of
such tract or part thereof can no longer be utilized for the purpose for
which the entire tract is then being utilized, or a portion of a building is to
be taken or the cost of removal or relocation of the buildings or other
improvements on the remaining portion, necessitated by the taking, would
exceed the cost of destroying such buildings or other improvements, or the
highway project will leave the remaining portions without a means of
access to a public highway, or whenever in the judgment of the State High-
way Commission the resulting damages to the remainder of such tract or
part thereof lying outside the proposed right of way, or the area being
acquired for a purpose incidental to the construction, reconstruction or
improvement of a public highway, will approximate or equal the fair
market value of such remaining lands; provided, however, that the State
Highway Commission shall not acquire the remainder of such tracts where
the remaining portion is in excess of ten acres.
§ 33-117.8. The acquisition of such residue parcels in addition to the
lands necessary for the immediate use for highway rights of way, 0:
purposes incidental to the construction, reconstruction or improvement o:
public highways, is hereby declared to be in the public interest and con
stitutes a public use as to the term public uses is used in § 58 of th
Constitution of Virginia; however, this shall not confer the right of emi
nent domain under the provisions of § 33-117.2.
§ 33-117.4. The State Highway Commission may lease, sell or ex
change such residue parcels of land upon such terms and conditions as i1
the judgment of the Commission may be in the public interest; provided
however, the Commission shall not use such parcels for any commercia
purpose. The State Highway Commission may lease, sell, or exchange suct
residue parcels of land, as may have been acquired under the provision:
of Article 8 of Chapter 3 of Title 33 of the Code of Virginia, upon suck
terms and conditions as in the judgment of the Commission may be 11
the public interest. The State Highway Commission may lease such parcels
of land, as may have been acquired under the provisions of § 33-57.1 0!
the Code of Virginia in the event the former owner fails to make the
request authorized under the aforesaid section to others than the former
owner, upon such terms and conditions as in the judgment of the Commis-
sion may be in the public interest. The provisions of Articles 6.1 and 6.2
of Chapter 1 of Title 83 of the Code of Virginia shall not be construed tc
apply to the disposition of land hereinabove authorized.