CHAPTER 601

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
88-47.2, so as to provide for taking certain streets into the secondary
system of State highways.

[H 714]

Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
83-47.2, as follows:

§ 33-47.2. (a) “Street” as used in this section means a street or
highway shown on a plat which was recorded prior to July one, nineteen
hundred fifty-eight, at which time it was open to and used by motor
vehicles, and which, for any reason, has not been taken into the sec-
ondary system of State highways and has on it at least three families per
mile.
(b) “County” means a county in which the secondary system of the
State highways is constructed and maintained by the Department of
Highways and which has adopted a local ordinance for control of the
development of subdivision streets to the necessary standards for accept-
ance into the secondary system.

(c) Whenever the governing body of a county, at the meeting re-
ferred to in § 33-47, recommends in writing to the Department of High-
ways that any street in the county be taken into and become a part of
the secondary system of the State highways in such county, the Depart-
ment of Highways thereupon, within the limit of available funds and
the mileage available in such county for the inclusion of roads and streets
in the secondary system, shall take such street into the secondary system
of State highways provided such street has a dedicated width of forty feet
at the time of such recommendation, and thereafter maintain the same in
the manner provided by law, provided the governing body of the county
agrees to contribute from county revenue one-half of the cost to bring
the streets up to the necessary minimum standards for acceptance.

Notwithstanding any limitation in § 33-138 the local governing body
of the county may expend general county revenue for the purposes of this
section and may levy county or district road taxes for such purposes.