                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BURIAL OR CREMATION OF ANIMALS OR FOWLS WHICH HAVE DIED (§ 18.2-510)

When the owner of any animal or grown fowl which has died knows of such death,
such owner shall forthwith have its body cremated or buried or request such
service from an officer or other person designated for the purpose. If the owner
fails to do so, any judge of a general district court, after notice to the owner
if he can be ascertained, shall cause any such dead animal or fowl to be
cremated or buried by an officer or other person designated for the purpose.
Such officer or other person shall be entitled to recover of the owner of every
such animal or fowl that is cremated or buried the actual cost of the cremation
or burial and a reasonable fee to be recovered in the same manner as
officers&#8217; fees are recovered, free from all exemptions in favor of such
owner. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
Class 4 misdemeanor.
		Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the burial or cremation of
the whole or portions of any animal or fowl which is to be used for food or in
any commercial manner.
		This section shall not apply to any county until the governing body thereof
shall adopt the same.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-70; 1979, c. 716; 1981, c. 578; 2008, c. 345.