                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LITTER RECEPTACLES; PLACEMENT; PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS (§ 10.1-1419)

A. The Board shall promulgate regulations establishing reasonable guidelines for
the owners or persons in control of any property which is held out to the public
as a place for assemblage, the transaction of business, recreation or as a
public way who may be required to place and maintain receptacles acceptable to
the Board.
			In formulating such regulations the Board shall consider, among other public
places, the public highways of the Commonwealth, all parks, campgrounds, trailer
parks, drive-in restaurants, construction sites, gasoline service stations,
shopping centers, retail store parking lots, parking lots of major industrial
and business firms, marinas, boat launching areas, boat moorage and fueling
stations, public and private piers and beaches and bathing areas. The number of
such receptacles required to be placed as specified herein shall be determined
by the Board and related to the need for such receptacles. Such litter
receptacles shall be maintained in a manner to prevent overflow or spillage.

B. A person owning or operating any establishment or public place in which
litter receptacles of a design acceptable to the Board are required by this
section shall procure and place such receptacles at his own expense on the
premises in accordance with Board regulations.

C. Any person who fails to place and maintain such litter receptacles on the
premises in the number and manner required by Board regulation, or who violates
the provisions of this section or regulations adopted hereunder shall be subject
to a fine of twenty-five dollars for each day of violation.

HISTORY: 1987, c. 234, § 10-277.6; 1988, c. 891.