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This law was first created in 1984. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 439 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. Unfortunately, the 1984 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. 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 1996, chapters 114<\/a> and 157<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":370363,"section_number":"56-405","catch_line":"Railroad companies to maintain grade crossings of public highways and approaches; repair by Commissioner of Highways or public road authority; recovery of cost from railroad company","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-405\/"}],"permalink":{"id":1476619,"object_type":"law","relational_id":370359,"identifier":"56-405.02","token":"56\/13\/6\/56-405.02","url":"\/56-405.02\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-405.02\/","token":"56\/13\/6\/56-405.02","dublin_core":{"Title":"Railroads to adjust certain public highways at grade crossings","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-405.02","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

When adjustments are made to railway trackage grade which crosses public rights-of-way in use as a public highway<\/span> or street in any locality, the railway company<\/span> making such adjustments to their trackage shall also make initial adjustments to those public highways<\/span> or streets so affected thereby to maintain a safe vertical relationship between trackage and street surfaces and to insure positive storm drainage such as existed prior to such repairs. After making such initial adjustments the responsibility for the continuing maintenance of the areas within such public highways<\/span> and streets so adjusted shall be controlled by \u00a7 56-405<\/a>.<\/p>

The cost of all such initial street improvements necessitated by railway trackage adjustments shall be the responsibility of the railway company<\/span> making such initial adjustments irrespective of whether or not the street improvements extended beyond railway right-of-way.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRAILROADS TO ADJUST CERTAIN PUBLIC HIGHWAYS AT GRADE CROSSINGS (\u00a7 56-405.02)\n\nWhen adjustments are made to railway trackage grade which crosses public\nrights-of-way in use as a public highway or street in any locality, the railway\ncompany making such adjustments to their trackage shall also make initial\nadjustments to those public highways or streets so affected thereby to maintain\na safe vertical relationship between trackage and street surfaces and to insure\npositive storm drainage such as existed prior to such repairs. After making such\ninitial adjustments the responsibility for the continuing maintenance of the\nareas within such public highways and streets so adjusted shall be controlled by\n\u00a7 56-405.\n\nThe cost of all such initial street improvements necessitated by railway\ntrackage adjustments shall be the responsibility of the railway company making\nsuch initial adjustments irrespective of whether or not the street improvements\nextended beyond railway right-of-way.\n\nHISTORY: 1984, c. 439; 1996, cc. 114, 157.","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"}}