CHAPTER 400

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-14 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to cutting grass, weeds and other foreign growth in cities and towns,
and to repeal §§ 15-15 and 15-15.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating,
respectively, to cutting grass, weeds and other foreign growth in
certain counties and to the removal of trash and other substances
which might endanger the health of residents in certain counties.

[S 312]
Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15-14 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 15-14. * Any county, city or town may, by ordinance, provide:

(1) That the owners of property therein shall, at such time or times
as the governing body may prescribe, remove therefrom any and all
trash, garbage, refuse, litter and other substances which might endanger
the health of other residents of such county, city or town; or may, when-
ever the governing body deems it necessary, after reasonable notice,
have such trash, garbage, refuse, litter and other like substances which
might endanger the health of other residents of the county, city or town,
removed by its own agents or employees, in which event the cost or
expenses thereof shall be chargeable to and paid by the owners of such
property and may be collected by the county, city or town as taxes and
levies are collected;

(2) That the owners of vacant property 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 may,
whenever the governing body deems it necessary, after reasonable notice,
have such grass, weeds or other foreign growth cut by its own agents or
employees, in which event, the cost and expenses thereof shall be charge-
able to and paid by the owner of such property and may be collected
by the * county, city or town as taxes and levies are collected; provided,
however, that no such ordinance adopted by any county shall have any
force and effect within the corporate limits of any town; provided, fur-
ther, that no such ordinance adopted by any county having a density of
population of less than five thousand per square mile shall have any
force or effect except within the boundaries of platted subdivisions; and

(3) That every charge authorized by this section with which the
owner of any such property shall have been assessed and which remains
unpaid shall constitute a lien against such property.

2. That §§ 15-15 and 15-15.2 and all amendments thereof, of the Code
of Virginia, are repealed.