33.1-42 - Incorporation into State Highway System of connecting streets and roads in certain other towns and cities; maintenance, etc., costs.

§ 33.1-42. Incorporation into State Highway System of connecting streets androads in certain other towns and cities; maintenance, etc., costs.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board may, by and with the consent of theGovernor and the governing body of any incorporated town or city having apopulation of 3,500 inhabitants or less, incorporate in the State HighwaySystem such streets and roads or portions thereof in such incorporated townor city as may in its judgment be best for the handling of traffic throughsuch town or city from or to any road in the State Highway System and may, inits discretion, eliminate any of such roads or streets or portions thereoffrom the State Highway System. Every such action of the CommonwealthTransportation Board incorporating any such road or street or portion thereofin the State Highway System or eliminating it therefrom, shall be recorded inits minutes.

Any such road or street or portion thereof in any such city or town soincorporated in the State Highway System shall be subject to the rules,regulations and control of the state road authorities as are other roads inthe State Highway System. But such town or city shall be obligated to pay themaintenance and construction and reconstruction costs of such roads orstreets or portions thereof so incorporated in the State Highway System inexcess of the amounts authorized to be spent by the CommonwealthTransportation Commissioner on such roads or streets.

Every provision in the charter of any such town or city insofar as it is inconflict with this section is hereby repealed.

The Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner may in his discretion permitsuch town or city to maintain any such road or street, or portion thereof,incorporated in the State Highway System, and reimburse such city or town upto such amount as he is authorized to expend on the maintenance of such roador street, or portion thereof.

(Code 1950, § 33-35.3; 1964, c. 256; 1970, c. 322.)