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Statutes > Virginia > Title-15-2 > Chapter-20 > 15-2-2026§ 15.2-2026. Limited access streets.
Localities shall have the same authority with respect to the planning,designation, acquisition, opening, construction, reconstruction, improvement,maintenance, discontinuance and regulation of the use of limited accessstreets; the designation of existing streets as limited access streets, andthe extinguishment of easements and rights in connection therewith; theregulation and restriction of access to such streets; the construction ofservice roads in connection therewith; and all other authority with respectto such streets and incidental thereto, as the Commonwealth TransportationBoard has under the provisions of Article 4 (§ 33.1-57 et seq.) of Chapter 1of Title 33.1, or as the Board may be hereafter granted by amendment thereofor otherwise. "Limited access street" as used in this section means astreet especially designed for through traffic over which abutters have noeasement or right of light, air or access because their property abuts uponsuch limited access street.
(Code 1950, § 15-7.1; 1952, c. 422; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-16; 1997, c. 587.)
