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VA Code § 62.1-147.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 10 - Virginia Port Authority|§ 62.1-147.2. Chapter liberally construed

This chapter shall constitute full and complete authority for the doing of the acts and things herein authorized and shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.1997, c. 232.
VA Code § 62.1-148 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 11 - Federal Water Resources Development Projects|§ 62.1-148. Resolutions and ordinances assuring local cooperation

The governing body of any county, city or town is authorized to adopt such resolutions and/or ordinances as may be required giving it assurances to the Secretary of the Army or the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army for the fulfillment of the required items of local cooperation as expressed in acts of Congress and/or congressional documents, as conditions precedent to the accomplishment of river and harbor and flood control projects of the United States, when it shall appear, and is determined, by such local governing body that any such project will accrue to the general or special benefit of such county, city or town. In each case where the subject of such local cooperation requirements comes before a governing body a copy of its final action, whether it be favorable or unfavorable, will be sent to the Commissioner of Water Resources for the information of the Governor.Code 1950, § 62-117.1; 1958, c. 197; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-148.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 11 - Federal Water Resources Development Projects|§ 62.1-148.1. Power of cities and towns to bind themselves to perform or execute assurances regarding construction of flood walls or other flood control measures

The cities and towns authorized to adopt resolutions and ordinances pursuant to § 62.1-148 shall have the power to irrevocably bind themselves to do any and all things necessary to perform or execute the assurances authorized to be given pursuant to § 62.1-148 regarding construction of flood walls or other flood control measures, anything in the charters of such cities or towns to the contrary notwithstanding.1980, c. 48.
VA Code § 62.1-149 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 11 - Federal Water Resources Development Projects|§ 62.1-149. Items of cooperation to which localities may bind themselves

Such resolutions and ordinances may irrevocably bind such county, city or town:(1) To provide, free of cost to the United States the fee simple title to lands, perpetual and/or temporary easements, rights-of-way and any other interest in lands for cut-off bends, the laying of pipelines, erection of dikes, sluiceways, spillways, dams, drains, deposit of dredged materials, and for other purposes;(2) To alter existing structures on such areas;(3) To simultaneously dredge designated areas not covered by the federal project when and where required;(4) To construct and maintain public wharves and public roads leading thereto;(5) To make contributions in money or property in lieu of providing disposal areas for dredged materials;(6) To hold the United States safe and harmless against claims for damages arising out of the project or work incident thereto;(7) To remove sewer pipes and submarine cables;(8) To construct and maintain marine railways for the public use; and(9) To provide or satisfy any other items or conditions of local cooperation as stipulated in the congressional document covering the particular project involved.This section shall not be interpreted as limiting but as descriptive of the items of local cooperation, the accomplishment of which counties, cities and towns are herein authorized to irrevocably bind themselves; it being intended to authorize counties, cities and towns to comply fully and completely with all of the items of local cooperation as contemplated by Congress and as stipulated in the congressional acts or documents concerned.Code 1950, § 62-117.2; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-150 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 11 - Federal Water Resources Development Projects|§ 62.1-150. Acquisition of lands

For the purpose of complying with the terms of local cooperation as specified in this chapter and as stipulated in the congressional document covering the particular project involved, any city or town may acquire the necessary lands, or interest in lands, by lease, purchase, gift or condemnation, whether such lands are within or without the corporate limits of such city or town, and any county may acquire such lands by lease, purchase, gift or condemnation.However, the provisions of § 25.1-102, as now or hereafter in effect, shall apply to any property belonging to any corporation possessing the power of eminent domain which may be sought to be taken by condemnation hereunder.Code 1950, § 62-117.3; 1968, c. 659; 2003, c. 940.
VA Code § 62.1-151 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 11 - Federal Water Resources Development Projects|§ 62.1-151. Ratification of former resolutions and ordinances

All resolutions and ordinances adopted prior to March 16, 1948, by cities, counties and towns in furtherance of local cooperation projects of the United States for river and harbor improvement and for flood control and their acts in pursuance thereof are hereby ratified and affirmed as if accomplished under the authority of this chapter.Code 1950, § 62-117.4; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-152 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 11 - Federal Water Resources Development Projects|§ 62.1-152. Liberal construction

This chapter shall be liberally construed as in aid of projects of the United States for the improvements of rivers and harbors and for flood control and in furtherance of and not in limitation of powers now conferred by law on counties, cities and towns.Code 1950, § 62-117.5; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-155 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 13 - Improvement of Navigability of Streams|§ 62.1-155. Cooperation by cities on navigable streams with United States

The cities in the Commonwealth situated on navigable streams shall have the power to cooperate with the United States of America in the improvement of the navigability of such streams involving the deepening, widening and straightening the channel thereof and making provision for turning basins at terminals and mooring areas thereon.Code 1950, § 62-117.8; 1958, c. 467; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-156 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 13 - Improvement of Navigability of Streams|§ 62.1-156. Power of cities to give assurances to United States

In order to execute the purposes and objectives declared in § 62.1-155, the cities therein defined shall have the power to give assurances to the United States of America that they will:1. Furnish or cause to be furnished free of cost to the United States, when and as required by its duly authorized representatives, lands, easements and rights-of-way and spoil or dredged material disposal areas, unrestricted in disposal elevations, for the shore disposal of material to be initially dredged and for future maintenance of such improvements within and without such cities;2. Furnish or cause to be furnished, when and as so required, permits or easements for ingress to and egress from highways to such shore disposal areas, and permits or easements to construct pipeline trestles across oyster and clamming grounds and to lay dredge pipelines across lands adjacent to such shore disposal areas within and without such cities;3. Subject to all applicable laws, secure such releases or permits, either or both, as may be required, holding and saving the United States, its contractors and assigns free from any and all claims for damages to public or privately owned oyster and clamming grounds resulting or attributable to the accomplishment of the initial dredging or subsequent maintenance of such improvements, either or both;4. Secure such releases or permits, either or both, as may be so required, holding and saving the United States, its contractors and assigns free from any and all claims (a) for damages resulting from any change in the natural course of such rivers, (b) for damages resulting from blasting operations in the removal of rock or changes in ground water levels, and (c) for costs resulting from provision and operation of any bridges or ferries that may be necessary for furnishing connection between the mainland and any islands created by channel cutoffs;5. Relocate or cause to be relocated, at no cost to the United States, when necessary, roads, bridges, waterfront structures, sewerage, water supply, storm drainage, electric power, and other utility facilities within and without such cities, except those which the United States has theretofore permitted to be constructed in, under or over such rivers;6. Construct, maintain, expand and operate such terminal facilities within such cities which may be required to accommodate prospective foreign and domestic commerce expected to develop from the improvement of the channel of such rivers, the extent of such facilities to be mutually agreed to by the council of such cities and the duly authorized representatives of the United States; and7. Contribute funds to the United States necessary to construct, extend and maintain mooring or berthing areas immediately adjacent to river terminals of such cities when necessary because of expansion of such terminal facilities.Code 1950, § 62-117.9; 1958, c. 467; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-157 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 13 - Improvement of Navigability of Streams|§ 62.1-157. Power of cities to bind themselves to perform or execute assurances

The cities defined in § 62.1-155 shall have the power to irrevocably bind themselves to do any and all things necessary to perform or execute the assurances authorized to be given pursuant to § 62.1-156 anything in the charters of such cities to the contrary notwithstanding.Code 1950, § 62-117.10; 1958, c. 467; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-158 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 13 - Improvement of Navigability of Streams|§ 62.1-158. Claims for damages to oyster and clamming grounds

Claims for damages to oyster and clamming grounds may be asserted in the courts having jurisdiction in the county or city in which such damages occur.Code 1950, § 62-117.11; 1958, c. 467; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-159 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 14 - Foreign Trade Zones|§ 62.1-159. "Public corporation" defined

The term "public corporation," for the purposes of this chapter, means the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof or any incorporated municipality therein or any public agency of this Commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or of any municipality therein, or any corporate municipal instrumentality of this Commonwealth or of this Commonwealth and one or more other states.Code 1950, § 62-118; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-160 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 14 - Foreign Trade Zones|§ 62.1-160. Application by public corporation to establish and operate zone

Any public corporation of the Commonwealth, as that term is defined in § 62.1-159, is authorized to make application, individually or jointly with any other public corporation, for the privilege of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign-trade zone in accordance with an act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of foreign-trade zones on ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for other purposes," published in volume 48 of United States statutes at large, chapter 590.Code 1950, § 62-119; 1968, c. 659; 1970, c. 598.
VA Code § 62.1-161 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 14 - Foreign Trade Zones|§ 62.1-161. Application by private corporation

Any private corporation hereafter organized under the laws of this Commonwealth for the purpose of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign-trade zone in accordance with the act of Congress referred to in § 62.1-160 is likewise authorized to make application for the privilege of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign-trade zone in accordance with the act of Congress.Code 1950, § 62-120; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-162 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 14 - Foreign Trade Zones|§ 62.1-162. Authority to establish and operate zone; conditions and restrictions of act of Congress, etc.

Any public or private corporation authorized by this chapter to make application for the privilege of establishing, operating and maintaining such foreign-trade zone, whose application is granted pursuant to the terms of such act of Congress is authorized to establish a foreign-trade zone and to operate and maintain it, individually or jointly with any other public corporation, subject to the conditions and restrictions of the act of Congress, and any amendments thereto, and under such rules and regulations and for the period of time that may be prescribed by the board established by the act of Congress to carry out the provisions of the act.Code 1950, § 62-121; 1968, c. 659; 1970, c. 598.
VA Code § 62.1-163 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 15 - Port Management Generally|§ 62.1-163. Port management

The governing body of any county, city or town having a port may, at its pleasure, create such agencies, appoint such agents and employ such persons as may be required for the orderly and effective management of such port and its harbor; but nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or amend any prior act of the General Assembly creating or authorizing the creation of any port authority, port and industrial authority, port commission or port and industrial commission or the provisions of any municipal charter. The Circuit Court of the County of Northumberland shall appoint such an agent for the Port of Reedville. The appointing authority may prescribe for such agents and agencies such terms of office, titles, authority, duties, fees and compensation not inconsistent with law as it may deem appropriate, and may require from each person so appointed a fidelity bond in favor of the Commonwealth. All controversies arising between or among agents, agencies, authorities or commissions of two or more ports shall be referred to the Virginia Port Authority, which authority shall, under such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as it shall promulgate, resolve every such controversy in the best interests of the Commonwealth as a whole; but any party thereto shall have a right of appeal to the Supreme Court in the same manner and under the same rules as appeals are taken from orders of the State Corporation Commission.Code 1950, § 62-124; 1968, c. 659; 1990, c. 204.
VA Code § 62.1-164 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 16 - Wharves, Docks, Piers and Bulkheads|§ 62.1-164. Erection and abatement of private wharves, piers and landings

Any person owning land upon a watercourse may erect a private wharf on the same, or private pier or landing, in such watercourse opposite his land; provided, such wharf, pier or land is for noncommercial purposes and navigation be not obstructed, nor the private rights of any person be otherwise injured thereby. The circuit court of the county in which such wharf, pier or landing is, after causing ten days' notice to be given to the owner thereof, of its intention to consider the subject, if it be satisfied that such wharf, pier or landing obstructs the navigation of the watercourse, or so encroaches on any private landing as to prevent the free use thereof, may abate the same.Code 1950, § 62-139; 1968, c. 659; 1972, c. 415.
VA Code § 62.1-165 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 16 - Wharves, Docks, Piers and Bulkheads|§ 62.1-165. Erection of wharves at county landings

Any person desiring the privilege of erecting a wharf at or on any county landing may, after giving notice of his intention by advertising such notice at some public place near the landing, and also at the front door of the courthouse of such county, on the first day of a term of the circuit court of the county, present to the court at its next term a petition for such privilege. The court may determine the same, and may, in its discretion, grant such privilege and fix such rates and charges upon such conditions and limitations as to it may seem fit. The court, at any subsequent term, may, if it think proper, revoke such privilege, or alter such conditions or limitations, or regulate the rates and charges. This section shall not be construed to authorize a circuit court of the county to grant the privilege of erecting a wharf within a city.Code 1950, § 62-140; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-187 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 18 - Protection of Aids to Navigation|§ 62.1-187. Punishment of offenses relating to buoys, beacons or day marks

Any person or persons who shall moor any vessel or vessels of any kind or name whatsoever or any raft or any part of a raft to any buoy, beacon, or day mark, placed in the waters of Virginia by authority of the United States or shall in any manner hang on with any vessel or raft or any part of a raft to any such buoy, beacon, or day mark, or shall willfully remove, damage or destroy any such buoy, beacon or day mark, or shall cut down, remove, damage or destroy any beacon or beacons erected on land in this Commonwealth by the authority of the United States or through unavoidable accident run down, drag from its position, or in any way injure any buoy, beacon, or day mark as aforesaid and shall fail to give notice as soon as practicable of having done so to the harbor master or other legal manager of the port or to the United States Coast Guard within the district in which such buoy, beacon or day mark may be located, shall for every such offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $200 or by imprisonment not to exceed three months or both; one-third of the fine in each case shall be paid to the informer and two-thirds thereof to the lighthouse board to be used in repairing the buoys and beacons.Any person having charge of any raft passing any buoy, beacon or day mark who shall not exercise due diligence in keeping clear of it, or if unavoidably fouling it shall not exercise due diligence in clearing it without dragging from it such buoy, beacon or day mark shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by fine not to exceed fifty dollars.Code 1950, § 62-175; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-188 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 18 - Protection of Aids to Navigation|§ 62.1-188. Lien for cost of repairing or replacing buoy, beacon or day mark

The cost of repairing or replacing any such buoy, beacon, or day mark which may have been misplaced, damaged, or destroyed by any vessel or raft whatsoever having been made fast to any such buoy, beacon, or day mark shall, when the same shall be legally ascertained, be a lien upon such vessel or raft and may be recovered against such vessel or raft and the owner or owners thereof in an action of debt in any court of competent jurisdiction in this Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 62-176; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-189 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 18 - Protection of Aids to Navigation|§ 62.1-189. Anchoring on range of range lights

It shall be unlawful for any vessel to anchor on the range of any range lights established by the United States unless such anchorage is unavoidable, and the master of any vessel so anchoring shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, one-half of the fine in each case to be paid to the informer and one-half to the Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 62-177; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-190 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 19 - Dredging Sand and Gravel|§ 62.1-190. Dredging of sand or gravel prohibited

It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to dredge, dig or otherwise remove and carry away any part of any deposit of sand or gravel, or mixture of sand and gravel from any part of the fastland, or beach or bluff, abutting upon any of the rivers, streams or other waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, or from any part of the bed of such rivers, streams or other waters between high- and low-watermarks.In case any such deposit extends uninterruptedly from low watermark out into the bed of such waters, it shall, except as hereinafter provided, be unlawful to dig and carry away any part of such extended deposit lying between such low watermark and the middle line of such waters.Code 1950, § 62-178; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-191 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 19 - Dredging Sand and Gravel|§ 62.1-191. Violation a misdemeanor

Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Code 1950, § 62-179; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-192 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 19 - Dredging Sand and Gravel|§ 62.1-192. Injunction and damages

Any owner of any such fastland or beach, bluff, or bed of stream, between high- and low-watermark on which any such deposit exists or from which it extends towards the middle line of the water, as aforesaid, may, by appropriate proceedings brought by such owner, have an injunction against any person or corporation removing and carrying away or attempting to remove and carry away any such deposit or extension thereof without authority of the Commonwealth; and may, in such proceeding, or by separate action, recover against such violation of this chapter damages in treble the value of the material removed.Code 1950, § 62-180; 1968, c. 659.
VA Code § 62.1-193 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 19 - Dredging Sand and Gravel|§ 62.1-193. Exemptions from chapter

The prohibitions of this chapter shall not apply to any owner of any fastland, bluff, beach or bed of stream, upon or in front of which such deposits may lie, nor to any person or corporation acting under written permission from, or contract with such owner.None of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to interfere in any manner with the provisions of any law of this Commonwealth relating to taking fish and oysters.Code 1950, § 62-181; 1968, c. 659; 1986, c. 145.
VA Code § 62.1-193.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 62.1 - Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors|Chapter 19.1 - Cleaning Agents|§ 62.1-193.1. Prohibition on certain cleaning agents

Except as provided in § 62.1-193.2, a person may not use, sell, manufacture or distribute for use or sale in the Commonwealth any cleaning agent that contains more than zero percent phosphorus by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus except for an amount not exceeding 0.5 percent that is incidental to manufacturing. For the purposes of this chapter, "cleaning agent" means a laundry detergent, dishwashing compound, household dishwashing detergent, household cleaner, metal cleaner, industrial cleaner, phosphate compound or other substance that is intended to be used for cleaning purposes.1987, cc. 66, 67; 2008, c. 10.