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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?081+ful+CHAP0688\">688<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0805\">805<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1432029,"object_type":"law","relational_id":360085,"identifier":"33.2-231","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/3\/33.2-231","url":"\/33.2-231\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-231\/","token":"33.2\/I\/2\/3\/33.2-231","dublin_core":{"Title":"Establish community service landscaping program","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-231","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Commissioner of Highways<\/span> shall establish a program whereby persons convicted of nonviolent <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanors<\/span> who have received a <span class=\"dictionary\">suspended sentence<\/span> or <span class=\"dictionary\">probation<\/span> can fulfill their <span class=\"dictionary\">community service<\/span> requirements by mowing rights-of-way and performing other landscaping <span class=\"dictionary\">maintenance<\/span> tasks for roads and highways that the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> has the responsibility to maintain.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nESTABLISH COMMUNITY SERVICE LANDSCAPING PROGRAM (\u00a7 33.2-231)\n\nThe Commissioner of Highways shall establish a program whereby persons convicted\nof nonviolent misdemeanors who have received a suspended sentence or probation\ncan fulfill their community service requirements by mowing rights-of-way and\nperforming other landscaping maintenance tasks for roads and highways that the\nDepartment has the responsibility to maintain.\n\nHISTORY: 2008, c. 688, \u00a7 33.1-12.2; 2014, c. 805.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}