Chap. 365.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new
sections numbered 2743-a and 3034-a, conferring certain powers upon govern-
ing bodies of counties, cities and towns with respect to grass, weeds and other
growth on vacant lots, and to repeal Chapter 3 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938,

approved February 18, 1938, as amended, relating to the same subject.
[H B 309]

Approved March 28, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto two
new sections numbered twenty-seven hundred forty-three-a and thirty
hundred thirty-four-a, as follows:

Section 2743-a. Cutting grass, weeds, etc., on vacant property in
counties.—The governing body of any county having a density of popu-
lation greater than four hundred inhabitants per square mile 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 gov-
erning body shall prescribe; or such governing body may, whenever it
deems it necessary, 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.

Section 3034-a. Cutting grass, weeds, etc., on vacant property in
cities and towns.—The governing body of any city or town may, in its
discretion, provide by ordinance or otherwise that owners of vacant prop-
erty therein 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 nec-
essary, have such grass, weeds and other foreign growth cut by its own
agents and 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 city or town as taxes and levies are collected.

2. Chapter three of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred
thirty-eight, approved February eighteen, nineteen hundred thirty-eight,
and all amendments thereof, is repealed.