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The owner of any property destroyed or ordered to be treated or otherwise disposed of under this section may, in an action against the Commonwealth in the appropriate court, recover just compensation for any property so destroyed or the reasonable costs of disposal of any property so ordered if he establishes that the property was not a pest, or a host, or an infested article.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":206749,"text":"Whenever the Commissioner finds any article that is infested or reasonably believed to be infested or a host or pest exists on any property or is in transit in the Commonwealth, he may require full information as to origin, number and destination of same and, upon giving notice to the owner or his agent in possession thereof, seize, quarantine, treat, or otherwise dispose of such pest, host, or article in such manner as the Commissioner deems necessary to suppress, control, eradicate, prevent, or retard the spread of a pest; or the Commissioner may order such owner or agent to so treat or otherwise dispose of the pest, host, or article. 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This law was first created in 1975. 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 2 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 1980, chapter 291; in 2008, chapter 860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":194265,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56474,"identifier":"3.2-705","token":"3.2\/I\/7\/1\/3.2-705","url":"\/3.2-705\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-705\/","token":"3.2\/I\/7\/1\/3.2-705","dublin_core":{"Title":"Authority for abatement and other emergency measures; compensation to property owners","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-705","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Whenever the Commissioner<\/span> finds any article that is infested<\/span> or reasonably believed to be infested<\/span> or a host<\/span> or pest<\/span> exists on any property or is in transit in the Commonwealth, he may require full information as to origin, number and destination of same and, upon giving notice to the owner or his agent in possession<\/span> thereof, seize, quarantine, treat, or otherwise dispose of such pest<\/span>, host<\/span>, or article in such manner as the Commissioner<\/span> deems necessary to suppress<\/span>, control, eradicate, prevent, or retard the spread of a pest<\/span>; or the Commissioner<\/span> may order<\/span> such owner or agent to so treat or otherwise dispose of the pest<\/span>, host<\/span>, or article. The owner of any property destroyed or ordered to be treated or otherwise disposed of under this section may, in an action against the Commonwealth in the appropriate court<\/span>, recover just compensation for any property so destroyed or the reasonable costs of disposal of any property so ordered if he establishes that the property was not a pest<\/span>, or a host<\/span>, or an infested<\/span> article.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAUTHORITY FOR ABATEMENT AND OTHER EMERGENCY MEASURES; COMPENSATION TO PROPERTY\nOWNERS (\u00a7 3.2-705)\n\nWhenever the Commissioner finds any article that is infested or reasonably\nbelieved to be infested or a host or pest exists on any property or is in\ntransit in the Commonwealth, he may require full information as to origin,\nnumber and destination of same and, upon giving notice to the owner or his agent\nin possession thereof, seize, quarantine, treat, or otherwise dispose of such\npest, host, or article in such manner as the Commissioner deems necessary to\nsuppress, control, eradicate, prevent, or retard the spread of a pest; or the\nCommissioner may order such owner or agent to so treat or otherwise dispose of\nthe pest, host, or article. The owner of any property destroyed or ordered to be\ntreated or otherwise disposed of under this section may, in an action against\nthe Commonwealth in the appropriate court, recover just compensation for any\nproperty so destroyed or the reasonable costs of disposal of any property so\nordered if he establishes that the property was not a pest, or a host, or an\ninfested article.\n\nHISTORY: 1975, c. 29, \u00a7 3.1-188.25; 1980, c. 291; 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}}