STATE STATUTES & CODES

VIRGINIA STATUTES AND CODES

Chapter 6 - Planting Grounds (28.2-600 thru 28.2-650)

• 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; aquaculture opportunity zones.
• 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 - Posting of notice of applications.
• 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 - 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.
• 28.2-628 - 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 - Description unavailable
• 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.

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