# Article 1 Public Health and Safety; Nuisances

This article is comprised of the following sections:

- §15.2-900 Abatement or removal of nuisances by localities; recovery of costs
- §15.2-901 Locality may provide for removal or disposal of trash and clutter, cutting of grass, weeds, and running bamboo; penalty in certain counties; penalty
- §15.2-901.1 Locality may provide for control of running bamboo; civil penalty
- §15.2-902 Authority of locality to control certain noxious weeds
- §15.2-903 Ordinances taxing and regulating “automobile graveyards,” “junkyards,” and certain vacant and abandoned property
- §15.2-904 Authority to restrict keeping of inoperable motor vehicles, etc., on residential or commercial property; removal of such vehicles; penalty
- §15.2-905 Authority to restrict keeping of inoperable motor vehicles, etc., on residential or commercial property; removal of such vehicles
- §15.2-906 Authority to require removal, repair, etc., of buildings and other structures
- §15.2-906.1 Expired
- §15.2-907 Authority to require removal, repair, etc., of buildings and other structures harboring illegal drug use or other criminal activity
- §15.2-907.1 Authority to require removal, repair, etc., of buildings that are declared to be derelict; civil penalty
- §15.2-907.2 Authority of locality or land bank entity to be appointed to act as a receiver to repair derelict and blighted buildings in certain limited circumstances
- §15.2-908 Authority of localities to remove or repair the defacement of buildings, walls, fences and other structures
- §15.2-908.1 Authority to require removal, repair, etc., of buildings and other structures harboring a bawdy place
- §15.2-909 Authority to require removal, repair, etc., of wharves, piers, pilings, bulkheads, vessels or abandoned, obstructing or hazardous property
- §15.2-910 Ordinance certifying boiler and pressure vessel operators; penalty
- §15.2-911 Regulation of alarm company operators
- §15.2-912 Regulation of tattoo parlors, body-piercing salons, and ear-piercing salons; definitions; exception
- §15.2-912.1 Regulation of martial arts instruction
- §15.2-912.2 Proceeds exempt from local taxation
- §15.2-912.3 Regulation of dance halls by counties, cities, and towns
- §15.2-912.4 Regulation of tobacco and hemp product retail sale locations
- §15.2-913 Ordinances regulating certain vendors
- §15.2-914 Regulation of child-care services and facilities in cities and certain counties
- §15.2-915 Control of firearms; applicability to authorities and local governmental agencies
- §15.2-915.1 Repealed
- §15.2-915.2 Regulation of transportation of a loaded rifle or shotgun
- §15.2-915.3 Repealed
- §15.2-915.4 Counties, cities and towns authorized to regulate use of pneumatic guns
- §15.2-915.5 Disposition of firearms acquired by localities
- §15.2-916 Prohibiting shooting of compound bows, slingbows, arrowguns, crossbows, longbows, and recurve bows
- §15.2-917 Applicability of local noise ordinances to certain sport shooting ranges
- §15.2-918 Locality may prohibit or regulate use of air cannons
- §15.2-919 Repealed
- §15.2-920 Regulation of outdoor lighting near certain facilities
- §15.2-921 Ordinances requiring fencing of swimming pools
- §15.2-922 Smoke alarms in certain buildings
- §15.2-922.1 Regulating or prohibiting the making of fires
- §15.2-922.2 Special fee for emergency services in certain counties
- §15.2-923 Local water-saving ordinances
- §15.2-924 Water supply emergency ordinances
- §15.2-924.1 Repealed
- §15.2-925 Regulation, etc., of assemblies or movement of persons or vehicles under certain circumstances; curfew; penalty
- §15.2-925.1 Local notifications
- §15.2-926 Prohibiting loitering; frequenting amusements and curfew for minors; penalty
- §15.2-926.1 Bounties for coyotes
- §15.2-926.2 Adoption of ordinances prohibiting obscenity
- §15.2-926.3 Local regulation of certain aircraft
- §15.2-926.4 Regulation of smoking in outdoor amphitheater or concert venue; civil penalty