                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ORDINANCES (§ 46.2-1201)

The governing body of any county, city, or town may provide by ordinance for
taking abandoned vehicles into custody and disposing of them in accordance with
this article.
		Any county, city, or town may take any abandoned motor vehicle into custody.
The locality may employ its own personnel, equipment, and facilities or hire
persons, equipment, and facilities, or firms or corporations that may be
independent contractors for removing, preserving, storing, and selling at public
auction abandoned motor vehicles.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 421, §§ 46.1-555.2, 46.1-555.3; 1989, c. 727; 1997, c. 150.