When the particular revenue bonds issued for any project and the interest thereon have been paid, or a sufficient amount has been provided for their payment and continues to be held for that purpose, the Board shall cease to charge tolls for the use of such project and thereafter such project shall be free; however, the Board may thereafter charge tolls for the use of any such project when tolls are required for maintaining, repairing, operating, improving, and reconstructing such project; when such tolls have been or are pledged by the Board to the payment of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter for another project on approval of the General Assembly; or when such tolls are designated by the Board to be deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund. However, any such pledge of tolls of a project to the payment of bonds issued for another project shall not be effective until the principal and interest of the bonds issued for the first mentioned project has been paid or provision made for their payment.
The provisions of this section shall also apply to tolls on projects constructed pursuant to (i) the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District and Commission established in Chapter 22 (§ 33.2-2200 et seq.) and (ii) the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority established in Chapter 29 (§ 33.2-2900 et seq.), provided their governing bodies have acted as set forth in subdivision A 3 of § 33.2-1524.
Code 1950, § 33-247; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-287; 1986, Sp. Sess., c. 13; 2009, c. 471; 2014, cc. 469, 805.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 33.2 - Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems
Chapter 17 - Transportation Development and Revenue Bond Act
§ 33.2-1701. General powers of Commonwealth Transportation Board
§ 33.2-1702. Acquisition and construction of projects
§ 33.2-1703. Purchase of projects
§ 33.2-1704. Condemnation of projects and property
§ 33.2-1705. Improvement of projects acquired
§ 33.2-1706. Construction of projects
§ 33.2-1707. Highway connections
§ 33.2-1709. Credit of Commonwealth not pledged
§ 33.2-1710. Form and terms of bonds
§ 33.2-1711. No other prerequisites to issue of bonds
§ 33.2-1712. Limitations and approvals for certain revenue bonds
§ 33.2-1713. Sale of bonds; bonds as legal investments
§ 33.2-1714. Use of proceeds of sale of bonds
§ 33.2-1715. Financing two or more projects together
§ 33.2-1716. All moneys to be trust funds
§ 33.2-1719. Reserve funds and appropriations
§ 33.2-1721. Cessation of tolls
§ 33.2-1722. Use of certain funds by Board
§ 33.2-1724. Remedies of bondholders and trustee
§ 33.2-1725. Competing bridges, ferries, and tunnels
§ 33.2-1726. Incidental powers of the Board
§ 33.2-1727. Revenue refunding bonds and revenue bonds for combined purposes