A. The control, supervision, management, and jurisdiction over the secondary state highway system shall be vested in the Department, and the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of such secondary state highway system shall be by the Commonwealth under the supervision of the Commissioner of Highways. The boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of the counties shall have no control, supervision, management, or jurisdiction over such public highways, causeways, bridges, landings, and wharves constituting the secondary state highway system. Except as otherwise provided in this article, the Board shall be vested with the same powers, control, and jurisdiction over the secondary state highway system in the counties and towns of the Commonwealth, and such additions as may be made, as were vested in the boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of the counties on June 21, 1932, and in addition thereto shall be vested with the same power, authority, and control as to the secondary state highway system as is vested in the Board in connection with the primary state highway system.
B. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the Department, when undertaking improvements to any secondary state highway system component or any portion of any such component, to fully reconstruct such component or portion thereof to bring it into compliance with all design and engineering standards that would be applicable to such component or portion thereof if the project involved new construction.
Code 1950, § 33-46; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-69; 2008, Sp. Sess. II, c. 3; 2014, c. 805.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 33.2 - Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems
§ 33.2-301. Contracts for maintenance of components of Interstate System
§ 33.2-302. Funds for establishment and maintenance of Interstate System, generally
§ 33.2-303. Portions of Interstate System within cities and towns
§ 33.2-306. Applicability of §§ 33.2-300 through 33.2-305 to toll projects
§ 33.2-307. Relocation or removal of utility facilities within projects on Interstate System
§ 33.2-309. Tolls for use of Interstate System components
§ 33.2-310. Primary state highway system
§ 33.2-311. Certain highways in parks included in primary state highway system
§ 33.2-312. Maintenance of highways, bridges, and toll facilities within state parks
§ 33.2-313. Maintenance of highways at state institutions
§ 33.2-316. Primary state highway system map
§ 33.2-317. Establishment, construction, and maintenance exclusively by Commonwealth; funds
§ 33.2-318. Bypasses through or around cities and towns
§ 33.2-319. Payments to cities and certain towns for maintenance of certain highways
§ 33.2-322. Counties may perform certain maintenance
§ 33.2-323. Approval of markings and traffic lights erected by towns
§ 33.2-324. Secondary state highway system; composition
§ 33.2-325. Certain school roads in secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-326. Control, supervision, and management of secondary state highway system components
§ 33.2-327. Design standards for secondary state highway system components
§ 33.2-328. Department of Transportation to install and maintain certain signs
§ 33.2-333. Emergency paving of unpaved secondary highways; notice and local concurrence
§ 33.2-334. Requirements for taking new streets into secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-335. Taking certain streets into secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-336. Funds allocated to counties for Rural Addition Program; street standards
§ 33.2-337. Contributions to primary or secondary state highway construction by counties
§ 33.2-338. Construction and improvement of primary or secondary highways by counties
§ 33.2-339. Maintenance, etc., of streets and highways in certain towns from secondary funds
§ 33.2-340. Maintenance, etc., by Commissioner of Highways when no request for allocation
§ 33.2-341. Maps of secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-342. Resumption of responsibility for secondary state highways by counties
§ 33.2-343. Return after withdrawal from secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-344. Election to determine return to the secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-345. Effect of election to determine return to the secondary state highway system
§ 33.2-346. Machinery, etc., owned by returning county
§ 33.2-347. Minimum street and highway standards for certain towns
§ 33.2-349. Character of signs, markings, and signals
§ 33.2-350. Landscape studies for urban highway construction projects
§ 33.2-351. Definition of "allocation."
§ 33.2-352. Asset management practices; report
§ 33.2-353. Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop and update Statewide Transportation Plan
§ 33.2-354. Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop and update Statewide Pedestrian Policy
§ 33.2-355. Goals for addressing transportation needs of populations with limited mobility
§ 33.2-356. Funding for extraordinary repairs
§ 33.2-357. Revenue-sharing funds for systems in certain localities
§ 33.2-358. Allocation of funds to programs
§ 33.2-359. Unpaved secondary highway funds
§ 33.2-360. Allocation of funds for interstate match
§ 33.2-363. Construction of U.S. Route 29 bypass
§ 33.2-367. Highway aid to mass transit
§ 33.2-368. Financial plans for transportation construction projects
§ 33.2-369. State of good repair
§ 33.2-370. High-priority projects program
§ 33.2-371. Highway construction district grant programs
§ 33.2-372. Interstate Operations and Enhancement Program