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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59693</law_id><section_number>55.1-2814</section_number><catch_line>How governing body of county may make local fence law</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-2815</reference><reference>55.1-2816</reference><reference>55.1-2817</reference><reference>55.1-2818</reference></referred_to_by><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="5">No-Fence Law</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The board of supervisors or other governing body in any county, after publishing notice as required by subsection F of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Adoption of ordinances and resolutions generally; amending or repealing ordinances" href="/15.2-1427/">15.2-1427</a>, may, by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, declare the boundary line of each lot or tract of land or any stream in such county, any magisterial district of such county, or any selected portion of such county, to be a lawful fence as to any or all domesticated livestock, or may declare any other kind of fence for such county, magisterial district, or selected portion of the county than as prescribed by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Description of lawful fence" href="/55.1-2804/">55.1-2804</a> to be a lawful fence, as to any or all of such animals.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-880; 1977, c. 624, &#xA7; 55-310; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
