CHAPTER 461

An Act to provide for cattle guards or gates on certain roads or ways
over property subject to certain easements.
[H 602]

Approved April 3, 1954
_Be it enacted by the General] Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Any owner of property on which there is a road or way, not
a public road, a highway, street or alley, over which an easement exists
for ingress and egress of others may place cattle guards or gates across
such way when required for the protection of livestock.
§ 2. Any person having an easement of right of way across the
lands of another, may, at his own expense, replace any gate thereon with
a substantial cattle guard sufficient to turn livestock. Said cattle guards
shall be maintained and kept in good repair by the owner of the ease-
ment; provided that if the gate to be replaced is needed or used for the
orderly ingress and egress of horse drawn equipment or any equip-
ment drawn by any other draft animal or for the passage of animals
thereover, then such persons acting under the authority of this section
shall construct such cattle guards so as to allow the crossing or
passage of aforesaid referred to equipment and animals; or if such
easement is of sufficient width, may place such cattle guard adjacent to
such gate.

§ 8. Such a cattle guard shall be decmed a lawful gate and not an
interference with such easement.