When a city or town that owns and operates a waterworks system that supplies the city or town and its inhabitants with water finds it necessary to increase its water supply such that it requires impounding the water of a stream outside the corporate limits of such city or town by means of a dam erected in such stream and the impounding of the water thereof would result in the overflow, or flooding, of a section or sections of a highway or highways within the secondary state highway system that necessitates the alteration and relocation of the highway or highways and the governing body of the city or town by ordinance declares (i) such necessity and (ii) that it is the intention of such city or town to comply with the requirements of this article, then the highway proposed to be flooded may be discontinued and abandoned but only after the city or town has complied with the provisions and requirements of this article.
Code 1950, § 33-82; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-168; 2014, c. 805.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 33.2 - Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems
Chapter 9 - Abandonment and Discontinuance of Highways and Roads
§ 33.2-901. Discontinuance of a section of a highway or railroad crossing
§ 33.2-902. Abandonment of highway or railroad crossing; procedure
§ 33.2-903. Grade crossing closing and safety
§ 33.2-904. Effect of abandonment
§ 33.2-905. Appeal to circuit court
§ 33.2-907. Conveying sections of highways or other property no longer necessary
§ 33.2-908. Discontinuance of highway, landing, or railroad crossing; procedure
§ 33.2-909. Abandonment of highway, landing, or railroad crossing; procedure
§ 33.2-910. Appeal to circuit court
§ 33.2-911. Permissible uses by counties of certain discontinued secondary highways
§ 33.2-912. Alternative procedure for abandonment of old highway or crossing to extent of alteration
§ 33.2-913. Conveying sections of highways, landings, or other property no longer necessary
§ 33.2-914. County roads not part of primary or secondary state highway system; definitions
§ 33.2-915. Abandonment of certain roads and railroad crossings by governing body
§ 33.2-916. Notice of proposed abandonment
§ 33.2-917. Petition for abandonment
§ 33.2-918. Petition for public hearing on proposed abandonment
§ 33.2-919. Action of governing body
§ 33.2-920. Appeal to circuit court
§ 33.2-921. Effect of abandonment
§ 33.2-922. Recordation of abandonment of roads, highways, or railroad crossings by counties
§ 33.2-923. Alternative procedure for abandonment of old road or crossing to extent of alteration
§ 33.2-924. Conveying sections of roads or other property no longer necessary
§ 33.2-925. Alternative method of abandoning roads
§ 33.2-926. Chapter 20 of Title 15.2 not affected
§ 33.2-929. Plans for relocation of highways in connection with municipal water supply projects
§ 33.2-930. Acquisition of lands for relocation
§ 33.2-931. Costs of relocation
§ 33.2-932. Construction of relocated highway