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 Code of Virginia (Last Updated:July 28, 2020)
 TITLE 33.2. Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems
 SUBTITLE II. Modes of Transportation: Highways, Bridges, Ferries, Rail, and Public Transportation
 CHAPTER 9. Abandonment and Discontinuance of Highways and Roads
 ARTICLE 3. Abandonment of Roads Not in Primary or Secondary State Highway System
 SECTION 33.2-925. Alternative method of abandoning roads

  SECTION 33.2-925. Alternative method of abandoning roads  

As an alternative to the procedure for abandonment prescribed by this article, a road may be abandoned in accordance with the procedure for vacations in subdivision 2 of § 15.2-2272 . All abandonments of roads sought to be effected according to subsection (b) of former § 15.1-482 before July 1, 1990, are hereby validated notwithstanding any defects or deficiencies in the proceeding, provided that property rights that have vested subsequent to the attempted abandonment are not impaired by such validation. The manner of reversion shall not be affected by this section.

1990, c. 198, § 33.1-166.1; 2014, c. 15.2-2272 .