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Section
28.2-500

Residency and certain oyster licenses

Section
28.2-501

Application for license to take or catch oysters or clams

Section
28.2-502

License fees for taking oysters or clams in tidal waters

Section
28.2-503

License for taking clams with tongs

Section
28.2-504

License fee graduated; penalty

Section
28.2-505

Sale of shells to Commission

Section
28.2-506

Season for taking oysters from public rocks; penalty

Section
28.2-507

Opening and closing public rocks

Section
28.2-508

Prohibited area for patent tongs; penalty

Section
28.2-509

Maximum weight for patent tongs; teeth length; penalty

Section
28.2-510

Buying, selling, or possessing unculled oysters; penalty

Section
28.2-511

Culling oysters; penalty

Section
28.2-512

Interfering with oyster inspections; penalty

Section
28.2-513

Prima facie evidence of culling violation; defense

Section
28.2-514

Possession of shucked oysters; penalty

Section
28.2-515

Dredging or scraping on private ground; permit required

Section
28.2-516

Oyster dredging or oyster dredging equipment on boat; penalty

Section
28.2-517

Marking ground

Section
28.2-518

Dredging for oysters in James River; penalty

Section
28.2-519

Use of rakes or scrapes on ocean side of Eastern Shore; penalty

Section
28.2-520

Use of hydraulic dredges prohibited; exceptions; penalty

Section
28.2-521

Revocation of license or permit to dredge

Section
28.2-522

Prima facie evidence of violation

Section
28.2-523

Penalty

Section
28.2-524

Taking oysters or clams in certain areas; limitations

Section
28.2-525

Fishing in Chesapeake Bay immediately west of Tangier Island

Section
28.2-526

Oyster measures; standards; penalty

Section
28.2-527

Theft of oysters, clams, shells, etc.; penalty

Section
28.2-528

Revocation of licenses for theft of oysters

Section
28.2-529

Converting shells into lime; penalty

Section
28.2-530

Taking oysters or loading on vessel on Sunday or at night; penalty

Section
28.2-531

Taking clams on Sunday or at night; exception; penalty

Section
28.2-532

Protection of oysters and clams of Virginia; labeling; penalty

Section
28.2-533

Oysters on crab dredging boat; penalty

Section
28.2-534

Possession of oysters while taking clams; penalty

Section
28.2-535

Permit to buy or carry seed oysters from certain grounds; penalty

Section
28.2-536

Taking clams in certain areas; penalty

Section
28.2-537

Restriction on size of clams; penalty

Section
28.2-538

Record of oysters handled; penalty

Section
28.2-539

Repealed

Section
28.2-541

Oyster resource user fees

Section
28.2-542

Oyster Replenishment Fund

Section
28.2-543

Repealed

Section
28.2-545

Reserved

Section
28.2-546

Permit to carry oysters out of state

Section
28.2-547

Authority to inspect oysters when loaded on conveyance

Section
28.2-548

Duty to inspect

Section
28.2-549

Violations; recovery of oyster resource user fees; penalties

Section
28.2-550

Authority of Commissioner to make certain contracts; funds received to be paid into Oyster Replenishment Fund

Section
28.2-551

Surveys and reports as conclusive evidence

Section
28.2-551.1

Continuing or reestablishing historic Baylor Survey lines

Section
28.2-552

Resurvey on motion of Commission or on application of citizens

Section
28.2-553

Reestablishment of lines of Baylor survey; procedure; evidence of reestablished lines

Section
28.2-554

Sale of Baylor survey charts and plats

Section
28.2-555

Crossings of Baylor survey

Section
28.2-556

Erosion control devices within the Baylor survey

Section
28.2-557

Unlawful to threaten or hinder surveyor; rights of surveyor; penalty

Section
28.2-558

Placing permanent markers

Section
28.2-559

Removal of oysters planted by mistake

Section
28.2-560

Larceny of oysters and shells; penalty

Section
28.2-561

Removal of markers of planting grounds; penalty

Section
28.2-562

Maps to be filed; evidential value