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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85022</law_id><section_number>55.1-2816</section_number><catch_line>Application to railroad companies</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="5">No-Fence Law</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No action taken under the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How governing body of county may make local fence law" href="/55.1-2814/">55.1-2814</a> shall relieve any railroad company of any duty or obligation imposed on every such company by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Company to erect fences along roadbed; cattle guards, etc" href="/56-429/">56-429</a>, or imposed by any other <span class="dictionary">statute</span> now in force, in reference to fencing their lines of railway and rights-of-way.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-882; 1977, c. 624, &#xA7; 55-312; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
