{"law_id":"787578","section_number":"33.2-604","catch_line":"How right to demand tolls ascertained and rates fixed or changed","history":"Code 1950, \u00a7 33-217; 1970, c. 322, \u00a7 33.1-257; 1995, c. 647; 2014, c. 805.","order_by":null,"metadata":false,"court_decisions":{},"official_url":"http:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/33.2-604\/","refers_to":false,"url":"\/33.2-604\/","token":"33.2\/II\/6\/33.2-604","structure":{"1":{"id":"1940","name":"Ferries And Toll Facilities","identifier":"6","label":"chapter","url":"\/33.2\/II\/6\/"},"2":{"id":"244","name":"Modes Of Transportation: Highways, Bridges, Ferries, Rail, And Public Transportation","identifier":"II","label":"subtitle","url":"\/33.2\/II\/"},"3":{"id":"243","name":"Highways And Other Surface Transportation Systems","identifier":"33.2","label":"title","url":"\/33.2\/"}},"referred_to_by":false,"edition_id":"11","section_id":"787578","structure_id":"1940","full_text":"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 in writing that it is so completed and their report is confirmed by the court, the person authorized to erect it, or his heirs or assigns, may then demand and receive tolls at the rates fixed by such act from persons or things passing over the bridge. If no rates are fixed, then he, or his heirs or assigns, may receive tolls at such rates as may be fixed by law. If the toll rates are specified in such act they may be changed by law, unless such act otherwise expressly provides.","text":{"0":{"id":"2540980","text":"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 in writing that it is so completed and their report is confirmed by the court, the person authorized to erect it, or his heirs or assigns, may then demand and receive tolls at the rates fixed by such act from persons or things passing over the bridge. If no rates are fixed, then he, or his heirs or assigns, may receive tolls at such rates as may be fixed by law. If the toll rates are specified in such act they may be changed by law, unless such act otherwise expressly provides.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":{"1":{"id":"1940","name":"Ferries And Toll Facilities","identifier":"6","label":"chapter","url":"\/33.2\/II\/6\/"},"2":{"id":"244","name":"Modes Of Transportation: Highways, Bridges, Ferries, Rail, And Public Transportation","identifier":"II","label":"subtitle","url":"\/33.2\/II\/"},"3":{"id":"243","name":"Highways And Other Surface Transportation Systems","identifier":"33.2","label":"title","url":"\/33.2\/"}},"structure_contents":{"0":{"id":"789776","structure_id":"1940","section_number":"33.2-600","catch_line":"Acquisition or establishment of ferries","url":"\/33.2-600\/","token":"33.2\/II\/6\/33.2-600"},"1":{"id":"769895","structure_id":"1940","section_number":"33.2-601","catch_line":"Ferry across Corrotoman River","url":"\/33.2-601\/","token":"33.2\/II\/6\/33.2-601"},"2":{"id":"793837","structure_id":"1940","section_number":"33.2-602","catch_line":"Toll bridges; 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The court shall ascertain whether\nit is so completed by appointing three disinterested freeholders to view it. If\nthey report in writing that it is so completed and their report is confirmed by\nthe court, the person authorized to erect it, or his heirs or assigns, may then\ndemand and receive tolls at the rates fixed by such act from persons or things\npassing over the bridge. If no rates are fixed, then he, or his heirs or\nassigns, may receive tolls at such rates as may be fixed by law. If the toll\nrates are specified in such act they may be changed by law, unless such act\notherwise expressly provides.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 33-217; 1970, c. 322, \u00a7 33.1-257; 1995, c. 647; 2014, c.\n805."}