CHAPTER 31

An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-11 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the adoption of ordinances for the removal of trash, garbage, weeds
and other foreign growth. ¢ 37

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Approved February 17, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
l. That § 15.1-11 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 15.1-11. 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 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, 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, further, that no such ordinance
adopted by any county having a density of population of less than five
* hundred per square mile shall have any force or effect except within the
boundaries of platted sub-divisions; 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.