Code of Virginia
Chapter 6 - Planting Grounds
§ 28.2-635. Residents not to be associated with nonresident

Any resident who is associated for market or profit with any nonresident in taking or catching oysters or clams in any of the waters of the Commonwealth, or in waters under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, or in planting oysters or clams, or who knowingly participates with any nonresident in any such business in his name for market or profit, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The residence restrictions in this section shall not prevent a resident from owning stock in a corporation in which nonresidents are stockholders, if such corporation is authorized by law to occupy oyster-planting grounds.
Code 1950, § 28-140; 1962, c. 406, § 28.1-123; 1983, c. 307; 1992, c. 836.

Structure Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia

Title 28.2 - Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters

Chapter 6 - Planting Grounds

§ 28.2-600. Riparian planting ground assignments; eligibility; fee

§ 28.2-601. Riparian assignments; entitlements; obligations

§ 28.2-602. Riparian assignments; special terms and conditions

§ 28.2-603. General oyster planting grounds

§ 28.2-603.1. Temporary enclosures on leased ground

§ 28.2-603.2. Commissioner to provide notice

§ 28.2-604. Eligible applicants

§ 28.2-605. Application for assignment

§ 28.2-606. Notice of application

§ 28.2-607. Survey and marking of ground

§ 28.2-608. Application, surveying, and recording fees

§ 28.2-609. Restrictions on assigned acreage and applications

§ 28.2-610. Restriction on acreage owned or operated

§ 28.2-611. Application for general planting ground in Chesapeake Bay; acreage allowed; annual rental

§ 28.2-612. Payment of annual rental; penalty for default

§ 28.2-613. Duration of lease

§ 28.2-614. Requiring lessee or transferor to have ground surveyed and plat recorded; canceling lease for failure of lessee to have survey

§ 28.2-615. Payment of costs for service, etc.

§ 28.2-616. Possession gives no preference as to assignment

§ 28.2-617. Recordation of plat

§ 28.2-618. (Effective until July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing

§ 28.2-618. (Effective July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing

§ 28.2-619. When leases become vacant

§ 28.2-620. Delinquent ground

§ 28.2-621. Effect of proposal for navigation project

§ 28.2-622. Consolidation of lease

§ 28.2-623. Excusing rent payment on condemned oyster grounds in the Lynnhaven River and tributaries

§ 28.2-624. Public rocks, etc., not to be used or staked off; penalty

§ 28.2-625. Transfer or assignment

§ 28.2-626. Refund of rent paid under mistake

§ 28.2-627. Relief from rent

§ 28.2-627.1. Oyster Leasing, Conservation, and Repletion Programs Fund

§ 28.2-628. Condemnation of oyster bottoms and grounds

§ 28.2-629. Rights of owner to waters within lawful survey

§ 28.2-630. Rights of riparian owners to build bulkhead or wharf

§ 28.2-631. Grounds for clams

§ 28.2-632. Public clamming grounds

§ 28.2-633. Bathing grounds; assignment; rental

§ 28.2-634. Nonresidents; taking, planting oysters prohibited; penalty

§ 28.2-635. Residents not to be associated with nonresident

§ 28.2-636. Leasing of certain bottoms in Rappahannock River prohibited

§ 28.2-637. Repealed

§ 28.2-638. Authority of Governor to authorize dredging of channel in navigable waters

§ 28.2-639. Certain public oyster rocks in Rappahannock River

§ 28.2-640. Declaring certain grounds in Mobjack Bay public oyster rocks

§ 28.2-641. Declaring certain areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

§ 28.2-642. Declaring certain other areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

§ 28.2-643. Declaring certain areas in Chesapeake Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

§ 28.2-644. Declaring certain areas near Hole in the Wall, in Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

§ 28.2-645. Declaring certain areas in Pocomoke Sound, Accomack County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

§ 28.2-646. Declaring certain areas in Piankatank River near Stove Point, Middlesex County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

§ 28.2-647. Declaring certain areas near the mouth of the Poquoson River, in York County, public oyster rocks, beds and shoals

§ 28.2-648. Declaring certain ground in Mobjack Bay, in Gloucester and Mathews Counties, to be public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

§ 28.2-649. Acts which remain in force

§ 28.2-650. Dredging clams in polluted areas for replanting in public clamming grounds