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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55007</law_id><section_number>3.2-900</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</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="9">Nuisance Birds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Nuisance birds</span>&#x201D; means blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds, grackles, cowbirds, pigeons, and starlings, or any other species so declared by regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> when causing or about to cause economic losses in the Commonwealth; becoming detrimental to the public health and welfare; defacing or defiling public or private property or otherwise creating a public nuisance.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; means the term as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Person" href="/1-230/">1-230</a>. The term also means any society.</p></section></text><history>1968, c. 64, &#xA7; 3.1-1012; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
