CHAPTER 262

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-15 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
power of certain counties to require that owners of vacant property
be required to cut grass, weeds and other growth thereon. CH 891]

Approved March 8, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

a That § 15-15 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 15-15. The pepe body of any county having a density of
population greater than four hundred inhabitants per square mile or the
governing body of any county having a population of more than ninety-
nine thousand, but less than one hundred thousand, in this State may, in
its discretion, provide by ordinance or otherwise that owners of vacant
property therein not included within the corporate limits of any town in
such county shall cut the grass, weeds and other foreign growth on such
property or any part thereof at such time or times as the governing body
shall prescribe; or such governing body may, whenever it deems it neces-
sary, have such grass, weeds and other foreign growth cut by its own
agents or employees, in which event the cost and expenses thereof shall be
chargeable to and paid by the owner of such property and may be collected
by the county as taxes and levies are collected. The provisions of this
section shall not apply in any county having a population of more than
ninety-nine thousand, but less than one hundred thousand, except as to
unimproved or vacant property located within any subdivision of land, a
plat of which has been duly recorded, as provided in Article 2 of Chapter
28 of this Title, and being within two hundred fifty feet of improved
property.