A. The Board shall allocate each year from all funds made available for highway purposes such amount as it deems reasonable and necessary for the maintenance of roads within the Interstate System, the primary state highway system, and the secondary state highway system and for city and town street maintenance payments made pursuant to § 33.2-319 and payments made to counties that have withdrawn or elect to withdraw from the secondary state highway system pursuant to § 33.2-366.
B. After funds are set aside for administrative and general expenses and pursuant to other provisions in this title that provide for the disposition of funds prior to allocation for construction programs, and after allocation is made pursuant to subsection A, the Board shall allocate all remaining funds, including funds apportioned pursuant to 23 U.S.C. § 104, or any successor programs, as follows:
1. Thirty percent of the remaining funds to state of good repair purposes as set forth in § 33.2-369;
2. Twenty percent of the remaining funds to the high-priority projects program established pursuant to § 33.2-370;
3. Twenty percent of the remaining funds to the highway construction district grant programs established pursuant to § 33.2-371;
4. Twenty percent of the remaining funds to the Interstate Operations and Enhancement Program established pursuant to § 33.2-372; and
5. Ten percent of the remaining funds to the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program established pursuant to § 33.2-373.
C. The funds allocated in subsection B shall not include the following funds: Congestion Mitigation Air Quality funds apportioned to the state pursuant to 23 U.S.C. § 104(b)(4), or any successor program, and any state matching funds; Surface Transportation Block Grant set-aside for Transportation Alternatives pursuant to 23 U.S.C. § 213, or any successor program, and any state matching funds; Surface Transportation Block Grant Program funds subject to 23 U.S.C. § 133(d)(1)(A)(i), or any successor program, and any state matching funds; and funds received pursuant to federal programs established by the federal government after June 30, 2020, with specific rules that include major restrictions on the types of projects that may be funded, excluding restrictions on the location of projects with regard to highway functional or administrative classification or population, provided such funds are under the control of the Board.
D. In addition, the Board, from funds appropriated for such purpose in the general appropriation act, shall allocate additional funds to the Cities of Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth and the County of Warren in such manner and apportion such funds among such localities as the Board may determine, unless otherwise provided in the general appropriation act. The localities shall use such funds to address highway maintenance and repair needs created by or associated with port operations in those localities.
E. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the General Assembly may, through the general appropriation act, permit the Governor to increase the amounts to be allocated to highway maintenance, highway construction, either or both.
1977, c. 578, § 33.1-23.1; 1979, c. 84; 1985, c. 42; 1986, c. 572; 2006, c. 937; 2007, c. 305; 2012, cc. 729, 733; 2014, cc. 87, 290, 741, 805; 2015, cc. 676, 684; 2020, cc. 1230, 1275.
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