§ 33.1-231. Duty of viewers, etc.; report
The viewers, or the county road engineer or county road manager, as the case may be, shall, as early as practicable after receiving the order of the board or other governing body to that effect, proceed to make the view, and may examine other routes and locations than that proposed and if of opinion that there is a necessity to establish or alter the location of the public road or bridge shall locate the same, return a map or diagram thereof with their report, and make a report to the board or other governing body, stating:
(1) Their reasons for preferring the location made,
(2) The probable cost of establishing or altering the location of such road or bridge,
(3) The convenience and inconvenience that will result as well to individuals as to the public,
(4) Whether the road or bridge will be one of such mere private convenience as to make it proper that it should be opened, established or altered and kept in order by the person or persons for whose convenience it is desired,
(5) Whether any yard, garden, or orchard will have to be taken,
(6) The names of the landowners on such route,
(7) Which of such landowners require compensation,
(8) What will be a just compensation to the landowners requiring compensation for the land so taken and for the damages to the residue of the tract, if any, beyond the peculiar benefits to be derived in respect to such residue, from the road or bridge to be established, and
(9) All other facts and circumstances in their opinion useful in enabling the board of supervisors or other governing body to determine the expediency of establishing or altering the road or bridge.
They shall file such report with the clerk of the board or other governing body.
(Code 1950, § 33-144; 1964, c. 565; 1970, c. 322.)
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