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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86265</law_id><section_number>33.2-1218</section_number><catch_line>Removal of billboard signs under this chapter prohibited without just compensation</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="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Modes of Transportation: Highways, Bridges, Ferries, Rail, and Public Transportation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="12">Outdoor Advertising in Sight of Public Highways</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Policies and Regulations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, no billboard sign subject to this chapter may be removed by action of a county, city, or town under Chapter 22 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Declaration of legislative intent" href="/15.2-2200/">15.2-2200</a> et seq.) of Title 15.2 without the payment of just compensation by the county, city, or town unless the billboard sign cannot remain on the property due to the site constraints of the property and removal of the billboard sign is therefore necessary for development on the property. The property owner may terminate the leasehold or other right of the billboard sign to remain on the property in accordance with the terms and conditions of the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> between the property owner and the billboard sign owner, but may not be required to do so by the county, city, or town as a condition of obtaining development approval for the property unless removal of the billboard sign is necessary for development of the property or the billboard sign is nonconforming and is the principal use on the property and the zoning <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> permits only one principal use on the property.</p></section></text><history>2003, c. 569, &#xA7; 33.1-370.1; 2014, c. 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
