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CHAPTER 129 An Act to amend and reenact § 33.1-152.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of discontinued state secondary highway components. [H 2379] Approved March 15, 2011

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33.1-152.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 33.1-152.1. Permissible uses by counties of certain discontinued secondary system highways.

Whenever a secondary system highway is discontinued under § 33.1-150, the highway shall continue to be available for use by the public as a road, unless it has been abandoned pursuant to this title or its use has been modified by an ordinance adopted pursuant to this section. The county governing body may by ordinance provide for use of the property a discontinued highway for any of the following purposes: (i) hiking or bicycle trails and paths or other nonvehicular transportation and recreation purposes; (ii) greenway corridors for resource protection and biodiversity enhancement, with or without public ingress and egress; and (iii) access to historic, cultural, and educational sites.