RaiderHawk: Virginia Department of Transportation ("VDOT") Virginia Department of Transportation ("VDOT") has prohibited all caches on property they own or maintain ---thus no street sign caches, no guardrail caches, no median caches, no utility pole caches, and so forth. In Virginia, the state has preeminence over local governments and localities may not set their own rules unless specifically provided for by the state. Placing, seeking, finding or monitoring a cache on VDOT-controlled property will be considered a crime, a violation of Title 24 of the Virginia Administrative Code, a Class IV Misdemeanor. UPDATE 7/8/2012 It has come to our attention that VDOT is extending the prohibition of geocaches to all Virginia rest areas as well as other VDOT maintained property.