Existence of a global section of $L(D)$ vanishing on $D$.

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Given a complex surface $X$ and $D$ a smooth curve on $X$, there is an associated line bundle $L(D)$ over $X$. Is there always a global section $s\in H^0(X,L(X))$, s.t. $s$ is just vanishing on $D$?