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2000 SESSION
008706744Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 15.2-901 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 15.2-901. Locality may provide for removal or disposal of trash, cutting of grass and weeds.
Any locality may, by ordinance, provide that:
1. The owners, occupants or other persons in control of property therein shall, at such time or times as the governing body may prescribe, remove therefrom any and all trash, garbage, refuse, litter and other substances which might endanger the health or safety of other residents of such locality; or may, whenever the governing body deems it necessary, after reasonable notice, have such trash, garbage, refuse, litter and other like substances which might endanger the health of other residents of the locality, removed by its own agents or employees, in which event the cost or expenses thereof shall be chargeable to and paid by the owners, occupants or other persons in control of such property and may be collected by the locality as taxes are collected;
2. Trash, garbage, refuse, litter and other debris shall be disposed of in personally owned or privately owned receptacles that are provided for such use and for the use of the persons disposing of such matter or in authorized facilities provided for such purpose and in no other manner not authorized by law; and
3. The owners, occupants or other persons in control of vacant developed or
undeveloped property therein, including such property upon which buildings or
other improvements are located, shall cut the grass, weeds and other foreign
growth on such property or any part thereof at such time or times as the
governing body shall prescribe; or may, whenever the governing body deems it
necessary, after reasonable notice, have such grass, weeds or other foreign
growth cut by its agents or employees, in which event the cost and expenses
thereof shall be chargeable to and paid by the ownerowners, occupants or other
persons in control of such property and may be collected by the locality as
taxes are collected. No such ordinance adopted by any county shall have any force and effect within the
corporate limits of any town. No such ordinance adopted by any county having a
density of population of less than 500 per square mile shall have any force or
effect except within the boundaries of platted subdivisions or any other areas
zoned for residential, business, commercial or industrial use.
Every charge authorized by this section with which the owner of any such property shall have been assessed and which remains unpaid shall constitute a lien against such property ranking on a parity with liens for unpaid local taxes and enforceable in the same manner as provided in Articles 3 (§ 58.1-3940 et seq.) and 4 (§ 58.1-3965 et seq.) of Chapter 39 of Title 58.1. A locality may waive such liens in order to facilitate the sale of the property. Such liens may be waived only as to a purchaser who is unrelated by blood or marriage to the owner and who has no business association with the owner. All such liens shall remain a personal obligation of the owner of the property at the time the liens were imposed.