§ 33.1-201. Improving certain private roads and certain town streets and roads
The Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner may, in his discretion, upon the request of the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county and at the expense of the owner of the land, improve private roads giving direct access from the home or other central buildings on the property along the shortest practical route to the nearest public highway; provided, however, that:
(1) The Commissioner shall in no case undertake any such work until certification is made by the board of supervisors or other governing body that the property owner cannot secure the services of a private contractor to perform the work nor then until the owner has deposited with him a certified check in the amount estimated by the Commissioner as the cost of the work;
(2) Not more than $1,000 shall be expended on any one such private project in any one year;
(3) No work of ordinary maintenance shall be done on any such private road under the provisions of this section.
And the Commissioner may, upon the request of the council of any town having a population of less than 1,500 and at the expense of such town, improve and maintain any streets or roads therein not in the State Highway System. As to streets and roads in such town, no certification by the board of supervisors or deposit shall be necessary.
Any work done by the Commissioner pursuant to the provisions of this section shall only be done with the equipment and employees of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
(Code 1950, § 33-118; 1970, c. 322.)
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