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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0808\">808<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0805\">805<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":370698,"section_number":"56-615","catch_line":" Right to occupy rights-of-way; location of rights-of-way","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-615\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":370239,"section_number":"56-265.1","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-265.1\/"}],"permalink":{"id":1432203,"object_type":"law","relational_id":360174,"identifier":"33.2-272","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/4\/33.2-272","url":"\/33.2-272\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-272\/","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/4\/33.2-272","dublin_core":{"Title":"Location of landfill gas pipelines in highway right-of-way; Department of Transportation to provide notice to counties","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-272","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Whenever the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> grants its permission for the construction, installation, location, or placement of a <span class=\"dictionary\">landfill gas pipeline<\/span> within any <span class=\"dictionary\">highway<\/span> right-of-way, notice shall be provided by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> to every county through which such pipeline or any portion thereof will pass.<\/p><p>For the purposes of this section, &#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">landfill gas pipeline<\/span>&#8221; means those facilities exempted from the definition of public utility in subdivisions (b)(6), (7), and (8) of \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Definitions\" href=\"\/56-265.1\/\">56-265.1<\/a>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nLOCATION OF LANDFILL GAS PIPELINES IN HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY; DEPARTMENT OF\nTRANSPORTATION TO PROVIDE NOTICE TO COUNTIES (\u00a7 33.2-272)\n\nWhenever the Department grants its permission for the construction,\ninstallation, location, or placement of a landfill gas pipeline within any\nhighway right-of-way, notice shall be provided by the Department to every county\nthrough which such pipeline or any portion thereof will pass.\n\nFor the purposes of this section, &#8220;landfill gas pipeline&#8221; means\nthose facilities exempted from the definition of public utility in subdivisions\n(b)(6), (7), and (8) of \u00a7 56-265.1.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 808, \u00a7 33.1-223.2:11; 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"}}