§ 33.1-193. Closing highways for safety of public or proper completion of construction; injury to barriers, sig...
If it shall appear to the Commissioner necessary for the safety of the traveling public or for proper completion of work which is being performed to close any road or highway coming under his jurisdiction to all traffic or any class of traffic, the Commissioner may close, or cause to be closed, the whole or any portion of such road or highway deemed necessary to be excluded from public travel and may exclude all or any class of traffic from such closed portion. While any such road or highway, or portion thereof, is so closed, or while any such road or highway, or portion thereof, is in process of construction or maintenance, the Commissioner or contractor, under authority from the Commissioner, may erect, or cause to be erected, suitable barriers or obstructions thereon, may post, or cause to be posted, conspicuous notices to the effect that the road or highway, or portion, is closed and may place warning signs, lights and lanterns on such road or highway, or portions thereof. When such road or highway is closed for the safety of the traveling public or in process of construction or maintenance, as provided in this section, any person who willfully breaks down, drives into new construction work, removes, injures or destroys any such barrier or barriers or obstructions, tears down, removes, or destroys any such notices or extinguishes, removes, injures or destroys any such warning lights or lanterns so erected, posted or placed shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Code 1950, § 33-109; 1958, c. 547; 1968, c. 162; 1970, c. 322.)
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