62.1-116 - Application for leave to build or raise dam across or in watercourse, cut canal, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 62.1-116. Application for leave to build or raise dam across or inwatercourse, cut canal, etc.

A person having upon lands owned by him on a watercourse, or proposing tobuild on such lands, a water mill, or other machine, manufactory, or engine,useful to the public, and desiring leave to erect a dam across, or in suchwatercourse (whether he own the lands on either side of the watercourse atthe point where such dam is to be erected or not), or to cut or enlarge acanal through lands above or below, or to raise a dam which may have beenerected under an order of court, or the owner of any such water mill,machine, manufactory, or engine, located on a watercourse, having the rightto the use of such watercourse for the operation of his mill, machine,manufactory, or engine, and desiring leave to construct a work on or throughthe lands of another for the purpose of confining the watercourse within itscustomary channel or restoring it thereto where it has been divertedtherefrom not more than three years by floods or other natural causes, mayapply for such leave to the circuit court of the county wherein such mill,machine, manufactory, or engine stands, or is proposed to be built.

(Code 1950, § 62-95; 1968, c. 659.)