Chap. 331.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3547 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to fences. [S B 173]

Approved March 25, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-five hundred and forty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3547, The board of supervisors in any county in this State
after posting notice of the time and place of meeting thirty days at the
front door of the courthouse, and at each voting place in the county,
and by publishing the same once a week for four successive weeks in
some newspaper of such county, if any be published therein, and if
none be published therein, in some newspaper having a general circu-
lation therein, a majority of the board being present and concurring,
may declare the boundary line of each lot or tract of land, or any
stream in such county, or any magisterial district thereof, or any se-
lected portion of such county, to be a lawful fence as to any or all of
the animals mentioned in section thirty-five hundred and forty-one, or
may declare any other kind of fence for such county, magisterial dis-
trict or selected portion of the county, than as prescribed by section
thirty-five hundred and thirty-eight to be a lawful fence, as to any or
all of said animals.

But this shall not be construed as applying and shall not apply to
relieve the adjoining landowners from making and maintaining their
division fences, as defined by section thirty-five hundred and thirty-
eight of this Code, but as to such division fences sections thirty-five
hundred and fifty-five to thirty-five hundred and sixty-one, inclusive,
shall be applicable, nothing contained in this section shall relieve any
railroad company of any duty or obligation imposed on every such
company by section thirty-nine hundred and forty-six, or imposed by
any other statute now in force, in reference to fencing their lines of
railway, and rights of way; nor shall anything herein contained au-
thorize or require the boards of supervisors to declare a more stringent
fence as a lawful fence for any county, magisterial district, or selected
portion of any county, than as prescribed by section thirty-five hun-
dred and thirty-eight. This section shall not repeal the existing fence
laws in any county, magisterial district or selected portion of any
county, until changed by the board of supervisors, in accordance with
the provision hereof; nor shall the provisions of this section apply to
any county, magisterial district, or selected portion of any county, in
which the no-fence law is now in force, if such no-fence law exist
otherwise than under the order of the board of supervisors entered
pursuant to this section.

Provided further, on and after January first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, the boundary line of each lot or tract of land in any
county in this State which may then or shall thereafter be under quar-
antine shall be a lawful fence as to any and all of the animals mentioned
in section thirty-five hundred and forty-eight.

The owner or manager or any animal mentioned in section thirty-
five hundred and forty-eight, who shall knowingly permit such ani-
mal to run at large in any county or portion thereof, under quarantine,
after January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, shall be deemed
to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars, in the discretion of the justice or court
trying the case.