Bill Text: VA SB554 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Statewide Fire Prevention Code; installation or use of landscaping cover materials.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-06 - Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (10-Y 0-N) [SB554 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2018-SB554-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 554 Offered January 10, 2018 Prefiled January 9, 2018 A BILL to address local ordinances concerning the installation or use of landscape cover materials. ---------- Patron-- Obenshain ---------- Referred to Committee on Local Government ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, general or special, any ordinance in effect and any ordinance adopted by the governing body of the City of Harrisonburg shall not include in any local fire prevention regulations that an owner of real property who has an occupancy permit issued by the City (i) use certain landscape cover materials, (ii) not use certain landscape cover materials, (iii) retrofit existing landscape cover materials, or (iv) in any way be prohibited from continuing to use, supplement, or refurbish the existing landscape cover materials at such property.