Chap. 219.—An ACT to prohibit the State Highway Commission and the State
Highway Commissioner from planting or causing to be planted certain plants
or weeds on State highway rights of way, to require the said Commission to
cause such of said plants or weeds as have been heretofore so planted or caused
to be planted to be destroyed, and to authorize certain landowners to destroy
or cause to be destroyed certain plants and weeds growing on State highway
rights of way. [H B 332]

Approved March 16, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for either the State Highway
Commission or the State Highway Commissioner to plant, or to
cause or suffer to be planted, on the right of way of any State high-
way, any of the weeds or plants known as devil shoestring (tephrosia
virginiana), Johnson grass (sorghum halapense), and barberry (ber-
beris vulgaris), if the Board of Supervisors of the county in which
the highway is located shall by resolution declare the said weeds or
plants be injurious to adjacent property.

The State Highway Commission shall cause all such weeds or
plants heretofore planted or caused to be planted, by the said Com-
mission or the said Commissioner, on any State highway right of
way, to be dug up and destroyed.

Section 2. It shall be lawful for any owner of land adjacent to
any State or other public highway right of way, or his agents and
employees, to dig up, cut down or otherwise remove and destroy
any of the said plants or weeds, and any other plants or weeds which
are or may become noxious or otherwise injurious to his property,
found growing upon any State or other public highway right of way
adjacent to his land.