62.1-194.1 - Obstructing or contaminating state waters. - Virginia Statutes

§ 62.1-194.1. Obstructing or contaminating state waters.

A. Except as otherwise permitted by law, it shall be unlawful for any personto dump, place or put, or cause to be dumped, placed or put into, upon thebanks of or into the channels of any state waters any object or substance,noxious or otherwise, which may reasonably be expected to endanger, obstruct,impede, contaminate or substantially impair the lawful use or enjoyment ofsuch waters and their environs by others. Any person who violates anyprovision of this law shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Each day thatany of said materials or substances so dumped, placed or put, or caused to bedumped, placed or put into, upon the banks of or into the channels of, saidstreams shall constitute a separate offense and be punished as such.

B. In addition to the foregoing penalties for violation of this law, thejudge of the circuit court of the locality wherein any such violation occurs,whether there be a criminal conviction therefor or not shall, upon acomplaint filed by the attorney of such locality or by any person whoseproperty is damaged or whose property is threatened with damage from any suchviolation, award an injunction enjoining any violation of this law by anyperson found by the court in such suit to have violated this law or causingthe same to be violated, when made a party defendant to such suit.

(1968, c. 659; 2007, c. 26.)