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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80002</law_id><section_number>3.2-806</section_number><catch_line>Access to plants or plant products; state and local police cooperation upon request</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions; Protection and Promotion of Agriculture</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Noxious Weeds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall have access to plants or plant products or any other article or substance suspected of being <span class="dictionary">infested</span> with a <span class="dictionary">noxious weed</span> for inspection and shall be provided with full information as to origin and destination of same by the <span class="dictionary">person</span> in <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of any plants or other articles.
		State and local police, upon request in specific instances, shall cooperate with the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> in the enforcement of this chapter. This chapter shall supersede any <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> in the Commonwealth insofar as carrying out its <span class="dictionary">intent</span>.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 175, &#xA7; 3.1-296.19; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
