33.1-49 - Power and authority of Commonwealth Transportation Board generally. - Virginia Statutes

§ 33.1-49. Power and authority of Commonwealth Transportation Board generally.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board may plan, designate, acquire, open,construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon and regulatethe use of the Interstate System in the same manner in which it is now or maybe authorized to plan, designate, acquire, open, construct, reconstruct,improve, maintain, discontinue, abandon and regulate the use of the primarysystem of state highways. The Board may vacate, close or change the locationof any street or public way in the manner in which it is now authorized bylaw to vacate, close or change the location of a highway in the primarysystem. The Board shall have any and all other authority and power relativeto such Interstate System as is vested in it relative to highways in theprimary system and shall include the right to acquire by purchase, eminentdomain, grant or dedication title to lands or rights-of-way for suchinterstate highways whether within or without the limits of any city or town,and in addition thereto, shall have such other power, control andjurisdiction necessary to comply with the provisions of the Federal-AidHighway Act of 1956 and all acts amendatory or supplementary thereto, allother provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding.

(Code 1950, § 33-36.2; 1958, c. 589; 1970, c. 322.)