                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LOCALITIES MAY PERMIT EXISTING ENCROACHMENTS (§ 15.2-2011)

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of § 15.2-2000, localities may
authorize owners of property with roadside vegetation described in §
15.2-2009.1 or buildings or structures encroaching under, upon and over any
public rights-of-way therein, within such limitations as the localities may
prescribe, to maintain such vegetation or encroachments as they exist, until
such vegetation, buildings, or structures are destroyed or removed; however,
nothing contained in this section shall be construed to relieve the owners of
negligence on their part on account of any such vegetation or encroachment.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 15-776; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-377; 1966, c. 190; 1986, c.
96; 1997, c. 587; 2020, cc. 962, 963.