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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>360045</law_id><section_number>33.2-217</section_number><catch_line>Prohibition of certain weeds and plants on highway rights-of-way</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="77" identifier="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions and Transportation Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="2">Transportation Entities</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="2" identifier="2">Commonwealth Transportation Board; Powers and Duties</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Neither the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> nor the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner of Highways</span> shall plant or cause or suffer to be planted on the right-of-way of any state <span class="dictionary">highway</span> any of the weeds or plants known as devil shoestring (Tephrosia virginiana), Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense), or barberry (Berberis vulgaris) if the governing body of the county in which the <span class="dictionary">highway</span> is located declares by resolution such weeds or plants to be injurious to adjacent property.</p><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall cause all such weeds or plants planted or caused to be planted by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> or <span class="dictionary">Commissioner of Highways</span> on any state <span class="dictionary">highway</span> right-of-way to be dug up and destroyed.</p><p>Any owner of land adjacent to any state or other public <span class="dictionary">highway</span> right-of-way, or his agents and employees, may dig up, cut down, or otherwise remove and destroy any of such plants or weeds and any other plants or weeds that are or may become noxious or otherwise injurious to his property found growing upon any state or other public <span class="dictionary">highway</span> right-of-way adjacent to his land.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 33-124; 1970, c. 322, &#xA7; 33.1-209; 2014, c. 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
