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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59791</law_id><section_number>55.1-2817</section_number><catch_line>No authority to adopt more stringent fence laws</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>Nothing in &#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 authorize or require the boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties to declare a more stringent fence as a lawful fence for any county, magisterial district, or selected portion of any county than as prescribed by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Description of lawful fence" href="/55.1-2804/">55.1-2804</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-883; 1977, c. 624, &#xA7; 55-313; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
