§ 33.1-146. Effect of such abandonment
In case of the abandonment of any section of road or any railroad crossing under the provisions of this article as a part of the State Highway System, such section of road or such crossing shall not thereafter be a public road or crossing as the case may be, unless conveyed to the county or town and subject to the authority of the board of supervisors or other governing body or other local road authorities, or town council, as provided by law. In case of proceedings for the abandonment of any section of road, not including a railroad crossing situated less than one and one-half miles from another public crossing over the same railroad, as a public road, under the provisions of this article, the board of supervisors or other governing body or the local road authorities, as the case may be, insofar as such section of road is located within the county of such board of supervisors or local road authorities, shall have authority to take over such section of road, not including the railroad crossing, and maintain it as a public road, as provided by law; provided, however, the board of supervisors or other governing body or local road authorities, as the case may be, shall have entered an order or resolution to that effect upon its minutes and shall have given notice thereof to the Commissioner within thirty days from the posting or publishing and the mailing of the notice of the application for the abandonment of such section of road as a public road, as hereinbefore provided.
(Code 1950, § 33-76.3; 1950, p. 728; 1970, c. 322.)
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