33.1-261 - Permission required to erect or maintain toll bridges over navigable water. - Virginia Statutes

§ 33.1-261. Permission required to erect or maintain toll bridges overnavigable water.

No toll bridge erected after March 19, 1928, shall be constructed, maintainedor operated across, in or over any navigable waters in or of thisCommonwealth, anything in the charter of any company to the contrarynotwithstanding, unless and until a permit therefor be first obtained fromthe Commonwealth Transportation Board. The Board may grant or withhold suchpermit or prescribe the terms and conditions thereof, as it may deem for thebest interest of the Commonwealth, except so far as such terms and conditionsmay be provided for herein.

(Code 1950, § 33-221; 1970, c. 322.)