Virginia · Code of Virginia — Title 18.2, Crimes and Offenses

Va. Code (Crimes) § 18.2-323: Leaving disabled or dead animal in road, or allowing dead animal to remain unburied

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person commits a Class 3 misdemeanor by casting a dead animal into a road, leaving a dead animal unburied on their property when offensive to the public, or abandoning a maimed, diseased, disabled, or infirm animal in a street or public place.

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