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§ 28.2-500. Residency and certain oyster licenses - No residence restriction shall prohibit any person from obtaining any...
§ 28.2-501. Application for license to take or catch oysters or clams - A. Any resident of this Commonwealth who desires to take...
§ 28.2-502. License fees for taking oysters or clams in tidal waters - Every resident who applies for a license to take or...
§ 28.2-503. License for taking clams with tongs - The license for taking clams, by ordinary or patent tongs,...
§ 28.2-504. License fee graduated; penalty - A. Every person engaged in the business of shucking or...
§ 28.2-505. Sale of shells to Commission - A. Each shucker or packer of oysters shall sell to...
§ 28.2-506. Season for taking oysters from public rocks; penalty - A. The season for taking oysters by shaft tongs or...
§ 28.2-507. Opening and closing public rocks - The Commission, in order to protect or promote the growth...
§ 28.2-508. Prohibited area for patent tongs; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to use or employ...
§ 28.2-509. Maximum weight for patent tongs; teeth length; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to use patent tongs...
§ 28.2-510. Buying, selling, or possessing unculled oysters; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to buy, sell, or...
§ 28.2-511. Culling oysters; penalty - A. 1. In addition to any other penalty prescribed by...
§ 28.2-512. Interfering with oyster inspections; penalty - It is unlawful for any person possessing unshucked oysters to...
§ 28.2-513. Prima facie evidence of culling violation; defense - It is unlawful for a person to have any oysters...
§ 28.2-514. Possession of shucked oysters; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to possess more than...
§ 28.2-515. Dredging or scraping on private ground; permit required - Any resident of the Commonwealth holding under legal assignment an...
§ 28.2-516. Oyster dredging or oyster dredging equipment on boat; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to have on board...
§ 28.2-517. Marking ground - A person shall not dredge or scrape his oyster-planting ground...
§ 28.2-518. Dredging for oysters in James River; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person to dredge for...
§ 28.2-519. Use of rakes or scrapes on ocean side of Eastern Shore; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person to use dredges,...
§ 28.2-520. Use of hydraulic dredges prohibited; exceptions; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person, unless he...
§ 28.2-521. Revocation of license or permit to dredge - The Commission, on testimony of an officer at a hearing...
§ 28.2-522. Prima facie evidence of violation - In any prosecution for the violation of any sections of...
§ 28.2-523. Penalty - Any person who takes or catches oysters with a dredge,...
§ 28.2-524. Taking oysters or clams in certain areas; limitations - The Commission, in order to protect and promote the oyster...
§ 28.2-525. Fishing in Chesapeake Bay immediately west of Tangier Island - The Commission, in order to protect and promote the fishery...
§ 28.2-526. Oyster measures; standards; penalty - A. Except as provided in subsection B, C, or D,...
§ 28.2-527. Theft of oysters, clams, shells, etc.; penalty - Any person who steals, or takes or carries away without...
§ 28.2-528. Revocation of licenses for theft of oysters - The Commission, without notice and hearing required by § 28.2-232,...
§ 28.2-529. Converting shells into lime; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person to take or...
§ 28.2-530. Taking oysters or loading on vessel on Sunday or at night; penalty - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to take...
§ 28.2-531. Taking clams on Sunday or at night; exception; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person to take clams...
§ 28.2-532. Protection of oysters and clams of Virginia; labeling; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person to offer for...
§ 28.2-533. Oysters on crab dredging boat; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person licensed to catch...
§ 28.2-534. Possession of oysters while taking clams; penalty - The possession of oysters while taking or catching clams during...
§ 28.2-535. Permit to buy or carry seed oysters from certain grounds; penalty - A. It is unlawful for any person to buy or...
§ 28.2-536. Taking clams in certain areas; penalty - It is unlawful to take or catch clams in Pocomoke...
§ 28.2-537. Restriction on size of clams; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to harvest or ship...
§ 28.2-538. Record of oysters handled; penalty - All licensed oyster harvesters, buyers, shucking houses, and aquaculture operations...
§ 28.2-539. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2013, c. 38, cl. 2.
§ 28.2-541. Oyster resource user fees - A. There are imposed upon all oysters taken from the...
§ 28.2-542. Oyster Replenishment Fund - All oyster resource user fees collected by the Commission shall...
§ 28.2-543. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2013, c. 38, cl. 2.
§ 28.2-545. Reserved - Reserved.
§ 28.2-546. Permit to carry oysters out of state - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry,...
§ 28.2-547. Authority to inspect oysters when loaded on conveyance - Any officer is authorized to inspect as to the quality,...
§ 28.2-548. Duty to inspect - It shall be the duty of the officer in whose...
§ 28.2-549. Violations; recovery of oyster resource user fees; penalties - Any person who violates any provision of this article is...
§ 28.2-550. Authority of Commissioner to make certain contracts; funds received to be paid into Oyster Replenishment Fund - A. The Commissioner, with the approval of the Commission, may...
§ 28.2-551. Surveys and reports as conclusive evidence - The surveys of the natural oyster beds, rocks, and shoals...
§ 28.2-551.1. Continuing or reestablishing historic Baylor Survey lines - When private leaseholds granted by the Commission or its predecessors...
§ 28.2-552. Resurvey on motion of Commission or on application of citizens - The Commission may select and appoint any surveyor to survey...
§ 28.2-553. Reestablishment of lines of Baylor survey; procedure; evidence of reestablished lines - The Commission may reestablish, relocate, and remark all lines of...
§ 28.2-554. Sale of Baylor survey charts and plats - The Commissioner shall have available to sell at five dollars...
§ 28.2-555. Crossings of Baylor survey - The Department of Transportation may maintain, repair, reconstruct, or replace...
§ 28.2-556. Erosion control devices within the Baylor survey - The public oyster beds, rocks, and shoals shall not include...
§ 28.2-557. Unlawful to threaten or hinder surveyor; rights of surveyor; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to threaten, resist, or...
§ 28.2-558. Placing permanent markers - Whenever the Commission makes or directs any surveys of Virginia's...
§ 28.2-559. Removal of oysters planted by mistake - When, by any resurvey of oyster-planting ground or survey reestablishing...
§ 28.2-560. Larceny of oysters and shells; penalty - Any person other than the holder of an oyster-planting ground...
§ 28.2-561. Removal of markers of planting grounds; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to intentionally or knowingly...
§ 28.2-562. Maps to be filed; evidential value - All maps of the bays, rivers, and creeks of this...