62.1-7 - Rights of improving navigation preserved; dams, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 62.1-7. Rights of improving navigation preserved; dams, etc.

Whatever power is reserved to the General Assembly by any act heretoforepassed to abate or remove any dam or other works in a watercourse, or toimprove its navigation, shall continue in full force. And in no case shallthe right of the Commonwealth, or of any company incorporated for opening,improving, or extending the navigation of any watercourse, to preference inthe use of the water flowing therein for the purposes of such navigation beaffected by any order of court, which, since the first day of April, 1816,has been made, or hereafter may be made, granting leave to any person toerect a dam or other obstruction across or in such watercourse.

(Code 1950, § 62-5; 1968, c. 659.)