{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-15.2-2011","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 15.2-2011","heading":"Localities may permit existing encroachments","body":"Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of § 15.2-2000, localities may authorize owners of property with roadside vegetation described in § 15.2-2009.1 or buildings or structures encroaching under, upon and over any public rights-of-way therein, within such limitations as the localities may prescribe, to maintain such vegetation or encroachments as they exist, until such vegetation, buildings, or structures are destroyed or removed; however, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to relieve the owners of negligence on their part on account of any such vegetation or encroachment.Code 1950, § 15-776; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-377; 1966, c. 190; 1986, c. 96; 1997, c. 587; 2020, cc. 962, 963.","path":["Title 15.2. Counties, Cities and Towns","Subtitle II. Powers of Local Government","Chapter 20. Streets and Alleys","Article 3. Encroachments on Rights-of-Way, etc"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/15.2-2011/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:19Z","sha256":"6df98e105b34d26f25a35abcc6a5ab9b034910d75a888a42ecab2ec5ffb1dcf2","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-15.2-2010","next":"us-va/va.-code-15.2-2012"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}