33.1-69 - Control, supervision and management.
§ 33.1-69. Control, supervision and management.
A. The control, supervision, management and jurisdiction over the secondarysystem of state highways shall be vested in the Department of Transportationand the maintenance and improvement, including construction andreconstruction, of such secondary system of state highways shall be by theCommonwealth under the supervision of the Commonwealth TransportationCommissioner. The boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of theseveral counties and the county road board or county road commission of anycounty operating under a county road board or county road commission shallhave no control, supervision, management and jurisdiction over such publicroads, causeways, bridges, landings and wharves, constituting the secondarysystem of state highways. Except as otherwise provided in this article, theCommonwealth Transportation Board shall be vested with the same powers,control and jurisdiction over the secondary system of state highways in theseveral counties and towns of the Commonwealth, and such additions as may bemade from time to time, as were vested in the boards of supervisors or othergoverning bodies of the several counties or in the county road board orcounty road commission in any county operating under a county road board orcounty road commission on June 21, 1932, and in addition thereto shall bevested with the same power, authority and control as to the secondary systemof state highways as is vested in the Board in connection with the StateHighway System.
B. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the Department,when undertaking improvements to any state secondary highway system componentor any portion of any such component, to fully reconstruct such component orportion thereof to bring it into compliance with all design and engineeringstandards that would be applicable to such component or portion thereof ifthe project involved new construction.
(Code 1950, § 33-46; 1970, c. 322; 2008, Sp. Sess. II, c. 3.)