CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN WEEDS AND PLANTS ON HIGHWAY RIGHTS-OF-WAY (§ 33.2-217)

Neither the Board nor the Commissioner of Highways shall plant or cause or
suffer to be planted on the right-of-way of any state highway 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 highway is located declares by resolution such weeds or
plants to be injurious to adjacent property.The Board shall cause all such weeds
or plants planted or caused to be planted by the Board or Commissioner of
Highways on any state highway right-of-way to be dug up and destroyed.Any owner
of land adjacent to any state or other public highway 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 highway right-of-way adjacent to his land.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-124; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-209; 2014, c. 805.