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§ 28.2-600. Riparian planting ground assignments; eligibility; fee - A. Any owner of land bordering on a body of...
§ 28.2-601. Riparian assignments; entitlements; obligations - The riparian leaseholder shall have the exclusive right to the...
§ 28.2-602. Riparian assignments; special terms and conditions - The provisions of this article apply to all Virginia counties...
§ 28.2-603. General oyster planting grounds - Waterfront that is not already assigned or reserved for the...
§ 28.2-603.1. Temporary enclosures on leased ground - The Commission shall, pursuant to its authority to regulate marine...
§ 28.2-603.2. Commissioner to provide notice - A. At least 30 days before placing temporary protective enclosures...
§ 28.2-604. Eligible applicants - Application for assignment of general oyster-planting ground may be made...
§ 28.2-605. Application for assignment - All applications for assignment of general oyster-planting grounds shall be...
§ 28.2-606. Notice of application - A. Notice of the application shall be posted by the...
§ 28.2-607. Survey and marking of ground - If a protest is not filed in the Commission office...
§ 28.2-608. Application, surveying, and recording fees - Any applicant for general oyster-planting ground or for riparian oyster...
§ 28.2-609. Restrictions on assigned acreage and applications - No assignment, except in the Chesapeake Bay, shall exceed 250...
§ 28.2-610. Restriction on acreage owned or operated - No person shall own or operate more than 3,000 acres...
§ 28.2-611. Application for general planting ground in Chesapeake Bay; acreage allowed; annual rental - Application for general planting ground in the Chesapeake Bay in...
§ 28.2-612. Payment of annual rental; penalty for default - The applicant shall pay to the Commission annual rent of...
§ 28.2-613. Duration of lease - Each assignment of general oyster-planting ground shall continue in force...
§ 28.2-614. Requiring lessee or transferor to have ground surveyed and plat recorded; canceling lease for failure of lessee to have survey - If the Commissioner determines that in any past assignment of...
§ 28.2-615. Payment of costs for service, etc. - The cost of the surveys and recording fees required by...
§ 28.2-616. Possession gives no preference as to assignment - Any person in possession of any general oyster-planting ground which...
§ 28.2-617. Recordation of plat - The plat and assignment, as soon as practicable after completion,...
§ 28.2-618. (Effective until July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing - A. The Commonwealth shall guarantee to any person who has...
§ 28.2-618. (Effective July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing - A. The Commonwealth shall guarantee to any person who has...
§ 28.2-619. When leases become vacant - When the Commission finds that a lessee is dead or...
§ 28.2-620. Delinquent ground - Any ground or area which becomes delinquent shall be open...
§ 28.2-621. Effect of proposal for navigation project - When the Commissioner receives information that the Secretary of the...
§ 28.2-622. Consolidation of lease - Upon written request by a leaseholder, the Commission may consolidate...
§ 28.2-623. Excusing rent payment on condemned oyster grounds in the Lynnhaven River and tributaries - Whenever leased oyster ground in the Lynnhaven River and its...
§ 28.2-624. Public rocks, etc., not to be used or staked off; penalty - It is unlawful for any person to stake, use, or...
§ 28.2-625. Transfer or assignment - A person holding an existing lease of oyster-planting ground may...
§ 28.2-626. Refund of rent paid under mistake - Whenever the Commissioner finds that a person has mistakenly paid...
§ 28.2-627. Relief from rent - The Commissioner may forgive ground rent for oyster leases in...
§ 28.2-627.1. Oyster Leasing, Conservation, and Repletion Programs Fund - There is hereby created in the state treasury a special...
§ 28.2-628. Condemnation of oyster bottoms and grounds - The Department of Transportation and any locality shall have the...
§ 28.2-629. Rights of owner to waters within lawful survey - If any creek, cove, or inlet within the jurisdiction of...
§ 28.2-630. Rights of riparian owners to build bulkhead or wharf - All assignments or leases of oyster or clam grounds under...
§ 28.2-631. Grounds for clams - The provisions in this chapter referring or relating to the...
§ 28.2-632. Public clamming grounds - Any ground in the waters of this Commonwealth not assigned...
§ 28.2-633. Bathing grounds; assignment; rental - Any person desiring to obtain a location for bathing grounds...
§ 28.2-634. Nonresidents; taking, planting oysters prohibited; penalty - If any person other than a resident, as defined in...
§ 28.2-635. Residents not to be associated with nonresident - Any resident who is associated for market or profit with...
§ 28.2-636. Leasing of certain bottoms in Rappahannock River prohibited - No part of the bottom of the Rappahannock River, lying...
§ 28.2-637. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1993, c. 217.
§ 28.2-638. Authority of Governor to authorize dredging of channel in navigable waters - When the approval, consent, or authorization of the Commonwealth is...
§ 28.2-639. Certain public oyster rocks in Rappahannock River - Russ' Rock and Little Carter's Rock are declared to be...
§ 28.2-640. Declaring certain grounds in Mobjack Bay public oyster rocks - The following grounds in Mobjack Bay, in the County of...
§ 28.2-641. Declaring certain areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals - The following ground in Hill's Bay on the west side...
§ 28.2-642. Declaring certain other areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals - The following ground in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, contained within...
§ 28.2-643. Declaring certain areas in Chesapeake Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals - The following ground in Chesapeake Bay, Mathews County, contained within...
§ 28.2-644. Declaring certain areas near Hole in the Wall, in Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals - The following ground near Hole in the Wall, Mathews County,...
§ 28.2-645. Declaring certain areas in Pocomoke Sound, Accomack County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals - The following area in Pocomoke Sound, Accomack County, contained within...
§ 28.2-646. Declaring certain areas in Piankatank River near Stove Point, Middlesex County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals - The following area, in the Piankatank River around and near...
§ 28.2-647. Declaring certain areas near the mouth of the Poquoson River, in York County, public oyster rocks, beds and shoals - The following ground near the mouth of the Poquoson River...
§ 28.2-648. Declaring certain ground in Mobjack Bay, in Gloucester and Mathews Counties, to be public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals - The following grounds in Mobjack Bay, Gloucester-Mathews Counties, contained within...
§ 28.2-649. Acts which remain in force - The following acts of the General Assembly are continued in...
§ 28.2-650. Dredging clams in polluted areas for replanting in public clamming grounds - The Commissioner may dredge clams or have the clams dredged...