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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>366459</law_id><section_number>48-7</section_number><catch_line>Houses and contents are nuisances subject to abatement</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><referred_to_by><reference>48-8</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="104" identifier="48">Nuisances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="2">Houses of Prostitution, Etc.</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person who shall knowingly erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, occupy or lease any building, erection, place, or area used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, prostitution, or activities of a criminal street gang, as criminal street gang is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/18.2-46.1/">18.2-46.1</a> in the Commonwealth is guilty of a nuisance, and the building, erection, place, or area, the ground itself, in or upon which such lewdness, assignation, prostitution, or criminal street gang activity is conducted, permitted, or carried on, continued, or exists, and the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments and contents are also declared a nuisance, and shall be enjoined and abated as hereinafter provided.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 1521; 2005, cc. 764, 813.</history><metadata><court_decisions><item key="0"><name>United States v. Rudisill</name><case_number>No. 10-6181</case_number><citation>380 F. App'x 309</citation><date>2010-05-27</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/8507491/united-states-v-rudisill/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. Affirmed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion. .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</court_html></item><item key="1"><name>United States v. Rudisill</name><case_number>No. 10-6181</case_number><citation>380 F. App'x 309</citation><date>2010-05-27</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/8507492/united-states-v-rudisill/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. Affirmed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion. .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</court_html></item><item key="2"><name>Rebecca Jones Richard v. Commonwealth of Virginia</name><case_number>1722193</case_number><citation></citation><date>2020-12-08</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4836672/rebecca-jones-richard-v-commonwealth-of-virginia/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html><abbr title="Court of Appeals">COA</abbr></court_html></item><item key="3"><name>Commonwealth v. Croatan Books, Inc.</name><case_number>Record 831798</case_number><citation>323 S.E.2d 86</citation><date>1984-11-30</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1298096/commonwealth-v-croatan-books-inc/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. 323 S.E.2d 86 (1984) .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html><abbr title="Supreme Court of Virginia">SCV</abbr></court_html></item><item key="4"><name>Town of Nags Head v. Matthew Toloczko</name><case_number>12-1537</case_number><citation>728 F.3d 391</citation><date>2013-08-27</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1038495/town-of-nags-head-v-matthew-toloczko/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge DI&#xC1;Z wrote the opinion, in which Judge SHEDD and .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</court_html></item><item key="5"><name>National Council for Adoption v. Jewell</name><case_number>Case No. 1:15-cv-00675-GBL</case_number><citation>156 F. Supp. 3d 727</citation><date>2015-10-20</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7317844/national-council-for-adoption-v-jewell/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>District Court, E.D. Virginia</court_html></item><item key="6"><name>Altizer v. Town of Cedar Bluff</name><case_number>Case No. 1:14CV00007</case_number><citation>104 F. Supp. 3d 760</citation><date>2015-04-17</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7313484/altizer-v-town-of-cedar-bluff/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. OPINION AND ORDER .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>District Court, W.D. Virginia</court_html></item><item key="7"><name>United States v. Jenkins</name><case_number>Case 1:10cr277</case_number><citation>745 F. Supp. 2d 692</citation><date>2010-10-04</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2472704/united-states-v-jenkins/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. 745 F.Supp.2d 692 (2010) .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>District Court, E.D. Virginia</court_html></item><item key="8"><name>Kohl's Dep't Stores, Inc. v. Va. Dep't of Taxation</name><case_number>Record 160681.</case_number><citation>803 S.E.2d 336</citation><date>2017-08-31</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4423100/kohls-dept-stores-inc-v-va-dept-of-taxation/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. OPINION BY JUSTICE WILLIAM C. MIMS .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html><abbr title="Supreme Court of Virginia">SCV</abbr></court_html></item><item key="9"><name>Manchanda v. Hays Worldwide, LLC</name><case_number>No. 1:14cv1339 (JCC/TCB)</case_number><citation>142 F. Supp. 3d 465</citation><date>2015-10-08</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7316598/manchanda-v-hays-worldwide-llc/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. ORDER .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>District Court, E.D. Virginia</court_html></item></court_decisions></metadata></law>
