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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62360</law_id><section_number>15.2-2107</section_number><catch_line>Persons occupying or using streets, etc., contrary to law</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-2108.23</reference><reference>15.2-2108.30</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="21">Franchises; Sale and Lease of Certain Municipal Public Property; Public Utilities</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Franchises; Sale and Lease of Certain Public Property</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person occupying or using any of the streets, avenues, parks, bridges or any other public places or public property or any public easement of any description of a <span class="dictionary">city</span> or <span class="dictionary">town</span>, in a manner not permitted to the general public, without having first legally obtained the consent of the <span class="dictionary">city</span> or <span class="dictionary">town</span> shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. Each day&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">continuance</span> thereof shall be a separate <span class="dictionary">offense</span>. Such occupancy or use shall be deemed a nuisance. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> trying the case may cause the nuisance to be abated and commit the offenders and all their agents and employees engaged in such <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> to jail until the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> is obeyed.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-736; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-316; 1983, c. 613; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
