15.2-2018 - Use of certain public property without consent or franchise. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-2018. Use of certain public property without consent or franchise.

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-2000 A, any person or corporation,except a public service corporation, that occupies or uses any streets,avenues, parks, bridges or any other public places or public property or anypublic easement of a county, in a manner not permitted to the general public,without having first obtained the consent of the governing body of suchcounty or a franchise therefor, shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.Each day's continuance thereof shall be a separate offense. Such occupancy oruse shall be deemed a nuisance. The court trying the case may cause thenuisance to be abated and commit the offenders and all their agents andemployees engaged in such offenses to jail until the order of the court isobeyed.

(1983, c. 613, § 15.1-512.1; 1997, c. 587.)