33.1-210.2 - Installation and maintenance of certain signs in counties and towns. - Virginia Statutes

§ 33.1-210.2. Installation and maintenance of certain signs in counties andtowns.

The governing body of any county or town may by resolution request theCommissioner to install and maintain, at locations specified in suchresolution, signs alerting motorists that children may be at play nearby.Upon receipt of such resolution, the Commissioner shall, within thirty days,respond in writing to such governing body granting or denying the request.Such signs requested by and installed in any town shall not require theapproval of the county within which such town is located. The cost ofinstallation of signs approved by the county or the town and installed shallbe paid, at the option of the county, either (i) out of the secondary systemconstruction allocation to the affected county, (ii) from directcontributions or grants made for such purpose to the governing body, or (iii)from such other source as may be provided by the governing body and the costof maintaining such signs shall be paid out of the secondary systemmaintenance allocation to the affected county.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any county that haswithdrawn its roads from the secondary system of state highways under theprovisions of § 11 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of 1932 and has not elected toreturn.

(1997, c. 167; 2006, c. 548.)