§ 33.1-230. How roads and bridges in counties established or altered; examination and report; width and grade o...
Whenever the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county shall be of opinion that it is necessary to establish or alter the location of a public road or bridge or any other person applies to the board or other governing body therefor it may appoint five viewers, who shall be resident freeholders of the county, any three of whom may act, to examine such roads or routes and report upon the expediency of establishing or altering the location of such public road or bridge or, in lieu of such viewers, it may direct the county road engineer or county road manager, if any, to examine such road or route and make such report and such board may establish or alter such road or bridge upon such location and of such width and grade as it may prescribe; provided, that the right-of-way for any public road shall not be less than thirty feet wide, except that in any case in which the cost of constructing and maintaining any such road is to be borne by any individual or individuals the right-of-way for such road may be less than thirty, not less than fifteen, feet in width. If no one of the viewers be an engineer, appointed for the purpose of making survey and map, the board of supervisors or other governing body may employ one, if necessary, to assist the viewers.
(Code 1950, § 33-142; 1964, c. 565; 1970, c. 322.)
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