§ 33.2-606. Permission required to erect or maintain toll bridges over navigable water
No toll bridge erected after March 19, 1928, shall be constructed, maintained, or operated across, in, or over any navigable waters in or of the Commonwealth, anything in the charter of any company to the contrary notwithstanding, unless a permit is first obtained from the Board. The Board may grant or withhold such permit or […]
§ 33.2-607. Approval of plans by Board; inspection; costs
Detailed plans, estimates, and specifications shall be submitted to the Board for approval before construction is commenced on a toll bridge or approaches under a permit granted under § 33.2-606. No such toll bridge shall be constructed until such plans, estimates, and specifications are approved by the Board. Access to such work shall be granted […]
§ 33.2-602. Toll bridges; when privilege ceases
When an act is passed to authorize the erection of a toll bridge, if the work is not commenced within one year from the passage of such act or is not completed within two years after such commencement or if, after its completion, there is an abandonment of the toll bridge or a failure for […]
§ 33.2-603. Toll bridges not to obstruct navigation or fish
Every toll bridge shall be made so as not to obstruct the passage of fish or the navigation of the watercourse over which it is erected. Code 1950, § 33-216; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-256; 2014, c. 805.
§ 33.2-604. How right to demand tolls ascertained and rates fixed or changed
Tolls shall be received for passing a bridge only after it appears to the circuit court of the county where the bridge is located that the bridge is completed according to the act authorizing it. The court shall ascertain whether it is so completed by appointing three disinterested freeholders to view it. If they report […]
§ 33.2-601. Ferry across Corrotoman River
The public free ferry across the Corrotoman River, in the County of Lancaster, authorized by Chapter 156 of the Acts of Assembly of 1847, shall be kept according to such act, except as otherwise provided in this section. The Circuit Court of Lancaster may have the contract for keeping the same let to the lowest […]
§ 33.2-600. Acquisition or establishment of ferries
The Board may acquire by purchase, condemnation, or gift any ferry within the Commonwealth that forms a connecting link in a state highway and may purchase all equipment and other things necessary for the establishment of new ferries to become connecting links in the primary or secondary state highway system, whenever it shall determine such […]