§ 33.1-49. Power and authority of Commonwealth Transportation Board generally
The Commonwealth Transportation Board may plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon and regulate the use of the Interstate System in the same manner in which it is now or may be authorized to plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon and regulate the use of the primary system of state highways. The Board may vacate, close or change the location of any street or public way in the manner in which it is now authorized by law to vacate, close or change the location of a highway in the primary system. The Board shall have any and all other authority and power relative to such Interstate System as is vested in it relative to highways in the primary system and shall include the right to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, grant or dedication title to lands or rights-of-way for such interstate highways whether within or without the limits of any city or town, and in addition thereto, shall have such other power, control and jurisdiction necessary to comply with the provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 and all acts amendatory or supplementary thereto, all other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding.
(Code 1950, § 33-36.2; 1958, c. 589; 1970, c. 322.)
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