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Code of Virginia · § 18.2-323 — Leaving disabled or dead animal in road, or allowing dead animal to remain unburied

18.2-323. Leaving disabled or dead animal in road, or allowing dead animal to remain unburied

If any person cast any dead animal into a road or knowingly permit any dead animal to remain unburied upon his property when offensive to the public or, having in custody any maimed, diseased, disabled or infirm animal, leave it to lie or be in a street, road or public place, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

History and annotations

Code 1950, § 32-70.1; 1958, c. 548; 1970, c. 72; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

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