33.1-166.1 - Alternative method of abandoning roads. - Virginia Statutes

§ 33.1-166.1. Alternative method of abandoning roads.

As an alternative to the procedure for abandonment prescribed by §§ 33.1-157through 33.1-164, a road may be abandoned in accordance with the procedurefor vacations in subdivision 2 of § 15.2-2272. All abandonments of roadssought to be effected according to subsection (b) of § 15.1-482 before July1, 1990, are hereby validated notwithstanding any defects or deficiencies inthe proceeding, provided that property rights which have vested subsequent tothe attempted abandonment are not impaired by such validation. The manner ofreversion shall not be affected by this section.

(1990, c. 198.)