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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>370368</law_id><section_number>56-408</section_number><catch_line>Signs similar to crossing signs prohibited</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="121" identifier="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="27" identifier="13">Railroad Corporations</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="6" identifier="6">Highway Crossings</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No device or sign which is in the form of a <span class="dictionary">railroad</span> crossing signboard shall be erected or permitted to remain on or near any of the public roads of this Commonwealth, except as required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Construction and maintenance of crossbucks" href="/56-405.2/">56-405.2</a>.</p><p>Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who shall erect such a device or sign, as aforesaid, and every sign owner who shall permit such a device or sign to remain on or near the public roads of this Commonwealth, and every landowner or tenant in <span class="dictionary">possession</span> who shall knowingly permit such a sign to remain on his land in view of any public road, shall be guilty of a <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>, and upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100.</p></section></text><history>1918, p. 128; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 3985a; 1956, c. 164.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
