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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80401</law_id><section_number>55.1-2808</section_number><catch_line>Property owner may place cattle guards or gates across right-of-way</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="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="V">Miscellaneous</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="28">Trespasses; Fences</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Cattle Guards and Gates Across Rights-of-Way</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any owner of property on which there is a road or way, not a public road, a highway, a street, or an alley, over which an easement exists for ingress and egress of others may place cattle guards or gates across such way when required for the protection of livestock.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-873.1; 1954, c. 461; 1977, c. 624, &#xA7; 55-304; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
