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1997 SESSION


CHAPTER 411
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-870 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local regulation of animals.
[H 2674]
Approved March 15, 1997

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-870 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.1-870. Cruelty to animals; running at large and keeping of animals and fowl.

A municipal corporation Any county, city or town may prevent cruelty to and abuse of animals and fowl; and may regulate or prohibit the running at large and the keeping of animals and fowl and provide for the impounding and confiscation of any such animal or fowl found at large or kept in violation of such regulations.