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VA Code § 10.1-1027 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 10.3 - Wild Spanish Mustangs Fund|§ 10.1-1027. Wild Spanish Mustangs Fund established; administration; purpose

There is hereby established in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Wild Spanish Mustangs Fund, hereafter referred to as the Fund. The Fund shall consist of such moneys as may be appropriated by the General Assembly and such other moneys as may be made available from any other source, public or private. Interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining in the Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund, but shall remain in the Fund. The Fund shall be administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Any expenditure from the Fund shall be subject to the recommendations of the Park Manager at False Cape State Park, with advice and consultation from the City of Virginia Beach, local legislators, and interested community members. The Fund shall be used for the general purpose of protecting the herd of wild Spanish mustangs on the barrier islands of Virginia. Allocations may include, but are not limited to, the erection and maintenance of fences to restrict the entrance of wild horses into Virginia, the transporting of any wild horses that do reach Virginia back to North Carolina, and other measures to protect these horses and promote their retention in North Carolina, as determined by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.2007, c. 37.
VA Code § 10.1-1100 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1100. Department of Forestry; appointment of the State Forester

The Department of Forestry, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the Department, is continued as an agency under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry. The Department shall be headed by the State Forester, who shall be appointed by the Governor to serve at his pleasure for a term coincident with his own.Any vacancy in the office of the State Forester shall be filled by appointment by the Governor pursuant to the provisions of Article V, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia.The State Forester shall be a technically trained forester and shall have both a practical and theoretical knowledge of forestry.1986, c. 567, § 10-31.1; 1988, c. 891; 1993, c. 699.
VA Code § 10.1-1100.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1100.1. Certified mail; subsequent mail or notices may be sent by regular mail

Whenever in this chapter the State Forester or the Department is required to send any mail or notice by certified mail and such mail or notice is sent certified mail, return receipt requested, then any subsequent, identical mail or notice that is sent by the State Forester or the Department may be sent by regular mail.2011, c. 566.
VA Code § 10.1-1101 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1101. General powers of Department

The Department shall have the following general powers, all of which, with the approval of the State Forester, may be exercised by a unit of the Department with respect to matters assigned to that organizational entity:1. Employ personnel required to carry out the purposes of this chapter;2. Make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this chapter, including, but not limited to contracts with private nonprofit organizations, the United States, other state agencies and governmental subdivisions of the Commonwealth;3. Accept bequests and gifts of real and personal property as well as endowments, funds, and grants from the United States government and any other source. To these ends, the Department shall have the power to comply with conditions and execute agreements as necessary, convenient or desirable;4. Promulgate regulations necessary or incidental to the performance of duties or execution of powers conferred under this chapter;5. Receive, hold in trust and administer any donation made to it for the advancement of forest resources of the Commonwealth;6. Undertake evaluation and testing of products and technologies relating to replacement of petroleum-based lubricants and hydraulic fluids with lubricants and hydraulic fluids made or derived from vegetables or vegetable oil, and promote the use of such products and technologies found to be beneficial in preserving and enhancing environmental quality; and7. Do all acts necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter.1986, c. 567, § 10-31.2; 1988, c. 891; 1995, c. 111.
VA Code § 10.1-1102 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1102. Board of Forestry

The Board of Forestry within the Department of Forestry, referred to in this chapter as the Board, shall be composed of 13 members appointed by the Governor. At least two members shall be representatives of the pine pulpwood industry; two members shall be representatives of the pine lumber industry; two members shall be representatives of the hardwood lumber industry; one member shall be a representative of the timber harvesting industry; and two members shall be small forest landowners. In making appointments to the Board, the Governor shall take into account the geographic diversity of board membership as it relates to Virginia's forest resources. Beginning July 1, 2012, the Governor's appointments shall be staggered as follows: four members for a term of one year, three members for a term of two years, three members for a term of three years, and three members for a term of four years. After the initial staggering of terms, appointments shall be for four-year terms. The State Forester shall serve as executive officer of the Board.No member of the Board, except the executive officer, shall be eligible for more than two successive terms; however, persons subsequently appointed to fill vacancies may serve two additional successive terms after the terms of the vacancies they were appointed to fill have expired. All vacancies in the membership of the Board shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term.The Board shall meet at least three times a year for the transaction of business. Special meetings may be held at any time upon the call of the executive officer of the Board, or a majority of the members of the Board.Members of the Board shall be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred as a result of their membership on the Board.Code 1950, § 10-84; 1986, c. 539; 1986, c. 567, § 10-84.1; 1988, c. 891; 1990, c. 127; 1992, c. 145; 2011, cc. 691, 714; 2012, cc. 803, 835.
VA Code § 10.1-1103 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1103. Powers of the Board

A. The Board shall be charged with matters relating to the management of forest resources in the Commonwealth.B. The Board shall advise the Governor and the Department on the state of forest resources within the Commonwealth and the management of forest resources. The Board shall encourage persons, agencies, organizations and industries to implement development programs for forest resource management and counsel them in such development. In addition, the Board shall recommend plans for improving the state system of forest protection, management and replacement, and shall prepare an annual report on the progress and conditions of state forest work.C. The Board shall formulate recommendations to the State Forester concerning regulations and other matters applicable to Article 10 (§ 10.1-1170 et seq.), including types of equipment to be purchased, rental rates for equipment, and reforestation practices.1986, c. 567, § 10-84.2; 1988, c. 891; 2012, cc. 803, 835.
VA Code § 10.1-1104 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1104. General powers and duties of State Forester

The State Forester, under the direction and control of the Governor, shall exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed upon him by law and shall perform other duties required of him by the Governor or the appropriate citizen boards.1986, c. 567, § 10-31.3; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1105 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1105. Additional powers and duties of State Forester

A. The State Forester shall supervise and direct all forest interests and all matters pertaining to forestry within the Commonwealth. He shall have charge of all forest wardens and shall appoint, direct and supervise persons he employs to perform labor in the forest reservations or the nurseries provided for herein, and he is authorized to employ temporary forest wardens to extinguish forest fires in the Commonwealth. He shall take such action as is authorized by law to prevent and extinguish forest fires; develop a program to promote the use of prescribed burning for community protection and ecological, silvicultural, and wildlife management; enforce all laws pertaining to forest and woodlands; prosecute any violation of such laws; develop silvicultural best management practices, including reforestation, prevention of erosion and sedimentation, and maintenance of buffers for water quality, pursuant to Article 12 (§ 10.1-1181.1 et seq.); collect information relative to forest destruction and conditions; direct the protection and improvement of all forest reservations; and, as far as his duties as State Forester will permit, conduct an educational course on forestry at the University of Virginia for credit toward a degree, at farmers' institutes and at similar meetings within the Commonwealth. He shall provide for the protection of state waters from pollution by sediment deposition resulting from silvicultural activities as provided in Article 12 (§ 10.1-1181.1 et seq.). In addition, the State Forester shall cooperate with counties, municipalities, corporations and individuals in preparing plans and providing technical assistance, based on generally accepted scientific forestry principles, for the protection, management and replacement of trees, wood lots and timber tracts and the establishment and preservation of urban forests, under an agreement that the parties obtaining such assistance shall pay the field and traveling expenses of the person employed in preparing such plans. The State Forester also shall assist landowners and law-enforcement agencies with regard to reported cases of timber theft. The State Forester shall develop and implement forest conservation and management strategies to improve wildlife habitat and corridors, incorporating applicable elements of any wildlife action plan developed by the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan developed pursuant to § 29.1-579.B. Records of the Department composed of confidential commercial or financial information supplied by individuals or business entities to the Department in the course of an investigation of timber theft are excluded from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700 et seq.).1986, c. 567, § 10-31.4; 1988, c. 891; 1989, c. 215; 1993, c. 948; 1997, c. 7; 1998, c. 156; 1999, c. 220; 2000, c. 997; 2019, cc. 348, 353; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 498.
VA Code § 10.1-1105.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1105.1. Century forest program

The State Forester shall establish and administer a century forest program to honor families in the Commonwealth whose property has been in the same family for 100 years or more and includes at least 20 contiguous acres of managed forest. In order to be eligible for recognition under the program, a property shall (i) have been owned by the same family for at least 100 consecutive years; (ii) be lived on, or actually managed by, a descendant of the original owners; and (iii) have a documented history of timber harvests or forest management activities.2016, c. 6.
VA Code § 10.1-1106 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1106. State Forester to control forest reserves and funds; reforesting; preservation of timber, etc.

The care, management and preservation of the forest reserves of the Commonwealth and the forests thereon, and all moneys appropriated in that behalf, or collected therefrom in any way, and all personal and real property acquired to carry out the objects of this chapter, shall be subject to the control of the State Forester.The State Forester shall observe, ascertain, follow and put into effect the best methods of reforesting cutover and denuded lands, foresting wastelands, preventing the destruction of forests by fire, the administering of forests on forestry principles, the instruction and encouragement of private owners in preserving and growing timber for commercial and manufacturing purposes, and the general conservation of forest tracts around the headwaters and on the watersheds of the watercourses of the Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 10-32; 1984, c. 750; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1108 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1108. Waste and unappropriated lands

Any waste and unappropriated land, other than ungranted shores of the sea, marsh or meadowlands exempted from grant by the provisions of § 41.1-3, may be set apart permanently for use as state forest land, by a grant and proclamation signed by the Governor upon the receipt from the State Forester of an application requesting that a certain piece, tract or parcel of waste and unappropriated land be so set apart. The State Forester shall submit with the application a copy of a report describing fully the location of the land, its character and suitability for forestry purposes together with a complete metes and bounds description of the boundary of the tract. The Department of General Services shall review the application and recommend either approval or disapproval of the transaction to the Governor. If the Governor determines that the land is more valuable for forestry purposes than for agricultural or any other purposes, he may authorize the preparation of a grant which shall be reviewed for legal sufficiency by the Attorney General for the Governor's signature and the lesser seal of the Commonwealth.All lands so granted shall be subject to statutes and regulations relating to the regulation, management, protection and administration of state forests.Code 1950, § 10-34.2; 1950, p. 225; 1984, c. 750; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891; 1995, c. 850.
VA Code § 10.1-1109 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1109. State forests not subject to warrant, survey or patent

Lands acquired by the Commonwealth for forestry purposes shall not be subject to warrant, survey or patent.Code 1950, § 10-42; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1110 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1110. Violation of regulations for supervision of state forests, etc.

Violators of any regulation for the supervision or use of any state forest, park, road, street or highway traversing the same, shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.Code 1950, § 10-43; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1111 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1111. Kindling fires on state forests; cutting and removing timber; damaging land or timber

Any person who kindles fire upon any of the state forests of this Commonwealth, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by the State Forester, or who cuts and removes any timber, or who damages or causes the damage of forestland or timber belonging to the Commonwealth, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor for each offense committed.Code 1950, § 10-44; 1986, c. 539; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1112 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1112. Notices relating to forest fires and trespasses

The State Forester shall distribute notices, printed in large letters on cloth or other suitable material, calling attention to the danger of forest fires, to the forest fire laws, and to trespass laws and their penalties, to forest wardens, and to owners of timberland to be posted by them in conspicuous places. Any person other than a forest warden or the owner of the land on which notices are posted, who tears down, mutilates or defaces any such notice shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.1986, c. 567, § 10-31.5; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1113 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1113. Not liable for trespass in performance of duties

No action for trespass shall lie against the State Forester, or any agent or employee of the State Forester for lawful acts done in performance of his duties.1986, c. 567, § 10-31.7; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1114 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1114. Establishment of nurseries; distribution of seeds and seedlings

A. The State Forester may establish and maintain a nursery or nurseries, for the propagation of forest tree seedlings, either upon one or more of the forest reservations of the Commonwealth, or upon such other land as he may and which he is empowered to acquire for that purpose. Seedlings from this nursery may be furnished to the Commonwealth without expense for use upon its state forests or other public grounds or parks. Seeds and seedlings may also be distributed to private individuals pursuant to terms and conditions and at prices approved by the State Forester.B. To the extent permitted by federal law and regulations, the preferred method of treatment shall be fumigation using methyl bromide in seedling plant beds prior to seeding.C. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services or his designee may issue an inspection certificate for intrastate and interstate shipments of conifer and hardwood seedlings to certify that they are apparently free of pests and diseases.Code 1950, § 10-36; 1968, c. 40; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891; 2012, cc. 101, 621; 2013, c. 124.
VA Code § 10.1-1115 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1115. Sale of trees

For the purpose of maintaining in perpetuity the production of forest products on state forests, the State Forester may designate and appraise the trees which should be cut under the principles of scientific forest management, and may sell these trees for not less than the appraised value. When the appraised value of the trees to be sold is more than $50,000, the State Forester, before making such sale, shall receive bids therefor, after notice by publication once a week for two weeks in two newspapers of general circulation. The State Forester shall have the right to reject any and all bids and to readvertise for bids. The proceeds arising from the sale of the timber and trees so sold, except as provided in subsection E of § 10.1-1107, shall be paid into the state treasury as provided in § 10.1-1116, and shall be held in the Reforestation Operations Fund for the improvement or protection of state forests or for the purchase of additional lands.Code 1950, § 10-37; 1970, c. 31; 1986, cc. 539, 567; 1988, c. 891; 2008, c. 19.
VA Code § 10.1-1116 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1116. Reforestation Operations Fund

All money obtained from the state forests, except as provided in subsection E of § 10.1-1107, shall be paid into a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury, to the credit of the Reforestation Operations Fund (the Fund). Interest earned on the moneys in the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining in the Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund, but shall remain in the Fund. The moneys in the Fund are to be utilized for state forest protection, management, replacement, and extension, under the direction of the State Forester.Code 1950, § 10-39; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891; 2014, c. 263.
VA Code § 10.1-1117 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1117. Specialized services or rentals of equipment to landowners, localities and state agencies; fees; disposition of proceeds

The State Forester may cooperate with landowners, counties, municipalities and state agencies, by making available forestry services consisting of specialized or technical forestry equipment and an operator, or rent to them such specialized equipment. For such services or rentals, a reasonable fee, representing the State Forester's estimate of the cost of such services or rentals, shall be charged.All moneys paid to the State Forester for such services or rentals shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the Forestry Operations Fund, to be used in the further protection and development of the forest resources of this Commonwealth. Upon presentation of a statement, the landowner, county, municipality or state agency receiving such services or rentals shall pay to the State Forester, within thirty days, the amount of charge shown on the statement.1964, c. 513, § 10-54.1; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891.
VA Code § 10.1-1118 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1118. Account of receipts and expenditures

The State Forester shall keep a full and accurate account of the receipts and expenditures of the Department.Code 1950, § 10-40; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891; 2004, c. 58.
VA Code § 10.1-1119 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 10.1 - Conservation|Chapter 11 - Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry|§ 10.1-1119. Preservation of evidence as to conserving forest supply; reports to General Assembly; publications

The State Forester shall preserve all evidence taken by him with reference to conserving the forests of the Commonwealth and the methods best adapted to accomplish such object. He shall report his actions, conclusions and recommendations to each session of the General Assembly and from time to time publish for public distribution, in bulletin or other form, such conclusions and recommendations as may be of immediate public interest.Code 1950, § 10-41; 1984, c. 750; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891.