33.1-209 - Prohibition of certain weeds and plants on highway rights-of-way. - Virginia Statutes

§ 33.1-209. Prohibition of certain weeds and plants on highway rights-of-way.

Neither the Commonwealth Transportation Board nor the CommonwealthTransportation Commissioner shall plant or cause or suffer to be planted onthe right-of-way of any state highway any of the weeds or plants known asdevil shoestring ( tephrosia virginiana), Johnson grass ( sorghum halepense), or barberry ( berberis vulgaris), if the board of supervisors or othergoverning body of the county in which the highway is located shall byresolution declare such weeds or plants to be injurious to adjacent property.

The Board shall cause all such weeds or plants heretofore planted or causedto be planted by the Board or Commissioner on any state highway right-of-wayto be dug up and destroyed.

Any owner of land adjacent to any state or other public highway right-of-way,or his agents and employees, may dig up, cut down or otherwise remove anddestroy any of such plants or weeds and any other plants or weeds which areor may become noxious or otherwise injurious to his property found growingupon any state or other public highway right-of-way adjacent to his land.

(Code 1950, § 33-124; 1970, c. 322.)