Code of Virginia - Title 55 Property And Conveyances - Chapter 18 Trespasses; Fences
- 55-298 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1982, c. 280. ...
- 55-298.1 Unlawful to sell, distribute, construct, install, maintain or use certain electric fences upon agri...
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, distribute, construct, install, maintain or use upon any land used for agricultural purposes, or, for ...
- 55-298.2 Unlawful to sell other controlling devices unless they meet certain standards
A controlling device which does not conform to the requirements of § 55-298.1 may not be sold, distributed, constructed, installed, maintained, or used unless it ...
- 55-298.3 Exceptions to { 55-298.2
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 55-298.2, no electric fence controlling device shall be sold, distributed, constructed, installed, maintained or used which will permit for longer ...
- 55-298.4 Definition
As used in this article, "electric fence" means a fence designed to conduct electric current along one or more wires thereof so that a person ...
- 55-298.5 Penalty
Punishment for violation of any provision of this article shall be as prescribed by § 18.2-324.1. (1982, c. 280.) ...
- 55-299 Definition of lawful fence
Every fence shall be deemed a lawful fence as to any livestock named in § 55-306, which could not creep through the same, if (1) ...
- 55-300 Court may declare stream of water or canal a lawful fence; proceeding therefor
The circuit court of any county, upon a petition of any proprietor or tenant of lands on any stream of water or canal, may, in ...
- 55-301 Revocation of order
Such court may upon like petition and notice of any person interested, revoke or alter any order made under § 55-300; but such order shall ...
- 55-302 Boundary lines of certain low grounds on James River a lawful fence
The owners and occupants of low grounds on either side of the James River in the Counties of Buckingham, Albemarle, and Goochland, enclosed by lawful ...
- 55-303 Statutes declaring watercourses lawful fences continued
All acts declaring any river, stream, or watercourse, or any part thereof, or any boundary in any county, a lawful fence, or authorizing any court ...
- 55-304 Property owner may place cattle guards or gates across right-of-way
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 ...
- 55-305 Persons having easement may replace gate with cattle guard; maintenance and use thereof; deemed law...
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 ...
- 55-306 Damages for trespass by animals; punitive and double damages
If any livestock domesticated by man shall enter into any grounds enclosed by a lawful fence, as defined in §§ 55-299 through 55-303, the owner ...
- 55-307 Lien on animals
After a judgment of the court a lien upon such animal shall enure for the benefit of the owner or tenant of such enclosed ground, ...
- 55-308 Impounding animals
Whenever any such animal is found trespassing upon any such enclosed ground, the owner or tenant of such enclosed grounds shall have the right to ...
- 55-309 Duty to issue warrant when animal impounded
It shall be the duty of such owner or tenant of such lands so trespassed upon, within three days after the taking up and impounding ...
- 55-310 How governing body of county may make local fence law
The board of supervisors or other governing body in any county in this State after posting notice of the time and place of meeting thirty ...
- 55-311 Effect of such law on certain fences
Such declaration shall not be construed as applying and shall not apply to relieve the adjoining landowners from making and maintaining their division fences, as ...
- 55-312 Application to railroad companies
No action taken under the provisions of § 55-310 shall relieve any railroad company of any duty or obligation imposed on every such company by ...
- 55-313 No authority to adopt more stringent fence laws
Nothing in § 55-310 shall authorize or require the boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties to declare a more stringent fence as ...
- 55-314 Effect on existing fence laws or no-fence laws
Nothing in § 55-310 shall repeal the existing fence laws in any county, magisterial district or selected portion of any county, until changed by the ...
- 55-315 Lands under quarantine
The boundary line of each lot or tract of land in any county in this Commonwealth which is under quarantine shall be a lawful fence ...
- 55-316 When unlawful for animals to run at large
It shall be unlawful for the owner or manager of any animal or type of animal described in § 55-306 to permit any such animal, ...
- 55-317 Obligation to provide division fences
Adjoining landowners shall build and maintain, at their joint and equal expense, division fences between their lands, unless one of them shall choose to let ...
- 55-318 When no division fence has been built
When no division fence has been built, either one of the adjoining owners may give notice in writing of his desire and intention to build ...
- 55-319 When division fence already built
When any fence which has been built and used by adjoining landowners as a division fence, or any fence which has been built by one, ...
- 55-320 Recovery of amount due in connection with division fence
Any sum which may be due and payable by one adjoining landowner to another in pursuance of any of the provisions of §§ 55-318 and ...
- 55-321 Requirements for agreement to bind successors in title; subsequent owners
No agreement made between adjoining landowners, with respect to the construction or maintenance of the division fence between their lands, shall be binding on their ...
- 55-322 How notice given
Any notice herein provided to be given shall be given to the owner of the land, if he reside in the county in which the ...
- 55-323 Courts to fix boundaries of villages to prevent animals from running at large
The circuit court of any county in which is situated any village or unincorporated community having within defined boundaries a population of 300 or more, ...
- 55-324 Petition for action under { 55-323
Twenty or more freeholders residing within the boundaries referred to in § 55-323 may present to such court a petition signed by them praying that ...
- 55-325 Entry of order if petition not contested
The petitions referred to in § 55-324, if verified by the oath of one or more of the petitioners, shall be prima facie evidence of ...
- 55-326 Procedure in case of contest
Any person having a lawful interest in any land within the boundaries referred to in any petition as provided for in § 55-324 who wishes ...
- 55-327 Order of court
If it appears from the evidence or from such report, if any be made, that as many as three hundred persons reside within such boundaries ...
- 55-328 Animals may not run at large after entry of order
After the expiration of ten days from the date of entering such order it shall be unlawful for any animal specified in § 55-306 to ...
- 55-329 Costs; by whom fines imposed
If the petition be uncontested, the costs thereof shall be borne by the petitioners; if it be contested, costs shall be awarded to the party ...
- 55-330 Owner of animals liable for trespasses
If any of the animals specified in § 55-306, as to which the boundaries of the lots or tracts of land in any county, or ...
- 55-331 Damages recoverable for timber cutting
If any person, firm or corporation, encroaches and cuts timber, except when acting prudently and under bona fide claim of right, the owner thereof shall, ...
- 55-332 Procedure for determination of damage
A. The owner of the land on which such trespass was committed shall have the right, within 30 days after the discovery of such trespass ...
- 55-333 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2004, cc. 604 and 615. ...
- 55-334 When person damaged may proceed in court
If the amount specified in subsection B of § 55-332 is not paid within 30 days after rendition of statement, the person upon whose land ...
- 55-334.1 Larceny of timber; penalty
A. Any person who knowingly and willfully takes, steals, and removes from the lands of another any timber growing, standing or lying on the lands ...
- 55-335 Effect of article
Nothing in this article shall have the effect of precluding any compromise or agreed settlement that the parties in dispute may effect as to the ...
Last modified: April 3, 2009