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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 29 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1975 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2008, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?081+ful+CHAP0860\">860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":194261,"object_type":"law","relational_id":81359,"identifier":"3.2-704","token":"3.2\/I\/7\/1\/3.2-704","url":"\/3.2-704\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-704\/","token":"3.2\/I\/7\/1\/3.2-704","dublin_core":{"Title":"Quarantine against regulated articles in other states","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-704","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>When the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> has good reason to believe in the existence of <span class=\"dictionary\">infested<\/span> <span class=\"dictionary\">regulated articles<\/span> in localities in other states, territories, or countries, or that conditions exist that, in the <span class=\"dictionary\">judgment<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>, render the importation of such <span class=\"dictionary\">regulated articles<\/span> from such localities a menace to the health of the Commonwealth, the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> shall, by proclamation, prohibit the importation of any <span class=\"dictionary\">regulated article<\/span> from any locality of other states, territories, or countries, into the Commonwealth.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nQUARANTINE AGAINST REGULATED ARTICLES IN OTHER STATES (\u00a7 3.2-704)\n\nWhen the Board has good reason to believe in the existence of infested regulated\narticles in localities in other states, territories, or countries, or that\nconditions exist that, in the judgment of the Board, render the importation of\nsuch regulated articles from such localities a menace to the health of the\nCommonwealth, the Board shall, by proclamation, prohibit the importation of any\nregulated article from any locality of other states, territories, or countries,\ninto the Commonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 1975, c. 29, \u00a7 3.1-188.24; 2008, c. 860.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}