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It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1970, chapter 322; in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0805\">805<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1432065,"object_type":"law","relational_id":360094,"identifier":"33.2-240","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/3\/33.2-240","url":"\/33.2-240\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-240\/","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/3\/33.2-240","dublin_core":{"Title":"Connections over shoulders of highways for intersecting private roads","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-240","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Commissioner of Highways<\/span> shall permit suitable connections from where private roads leading to and from private homes intersect improved highways and over and across the shoulders and unimproved parts of such highways to the paved or otherwise improved parts thereof to provide the users of such private roads safe and convenient means of ingress and egress with motor vehicles to and from the paved or otherwise improved parts of such highways.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCONNECTIONS OVER SHOULDERS OF HIGHWAYS FOR INTERSECTING PRIVATE ROADS (\u00a7\n33.2-240)\n\nThe Commissioner of Highways shall permit suitable connections from where\nprivate roads leading to and from private homes intersect improved highways and\nover and across the shoulders and unimproved parts of such highways to the paved\nor otherwise improved parts thereof to provide the users of such private roads\nsafe and convenient means of ingress and egress with motor vehicles to and from\nthe paved or otherwise improved parts of such highways.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 33-116; 1970, c. 322, \u00a7 33.1-197; 2014, c. 805.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}