Planting Grounds

  1. Law
  2. Code of Virginia
  3. Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters
  4. Planting Grounds

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Section
28.2-600

Riparian planting ground assignments; eligibility; fee

Section
28.2-601

Riparian assignments; entitlements; obligations

Section
28.2-602

Riparian assignments; special terms and conditions

Section
28.2-603

General oyster planting grounds

Section
28.2-603.1

Temporary enclosures on leased ground

Section
28.2-603.2

Commissioner to provide notice

Section
28.2-604

Eligible applicants

Section
28.2-605

Application for assignment

Section
28.2-606

Notice of application

Section
28.2-607

Survey and marking of ground

Section
28.2-608

Application, surveying, and recording fees

Section
28.2-609

Restrictions on assigned acreage and applications

Section
28.2-610

Restriction on acreage owned or operated

Section
28.2-611

Application for general planting ground in Chesapeake Bay; acreage allowed; annual rental

Section
28.2-612

Payment of annual rental; penalty for default

Section
28.2-613

Duration of lease

Section
28.2-614

Requiring lessee or transferor to have ground surveyed and plat recorded; canceling lease for failure of lessee to have survey

Section
28.2-615

Payment of costs for service, etc.

Section
28.2-616

Possession gives no preference as to assignment

Section
28.2-617

Recordation of plat

Section
28.2-618

(Effective until July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing

Section
28.2-618

(Effective July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing

Section
28.2-619

When leases become vacant

Section
28.2-620

Delinquent ground

Section
28.2-621

Effect of proposal for navigation project

Section
28.2-622

Consolidation of lease

Section
28.2-623

Excusing rent payment on condemned oyster grounds in the Lynnhaven River and tributaries

Section
28.2-624

Public rocks, etc., not to be used or staked off; penalty

Section
28.2-625

Transfer or assignment

Section
28.2-626

Refund of rent paid under mistake

Section
28.2-627

Relief from rent

Section
28.2-627.1

Oyster Leasing, Conservation, and Repletion Programs Fund

Section
28.2-628

Condemnation of oyster bottoms and grounds

Section
28.2-629

Rights of owner to waters within lawful survey

Section
28.2-630

Rights of riparian owners to build bulkhead or wharf

Section
28.2-631

Grounds for clams

Section
28.2-632

Public clamming grounds

Section
28.2-633

Bathing grounds; assignment; rental

Section
28.2-634

Nonresidents; taking, planting oysters prohibited; penalty

Section
28.2-635

Residents not to be associated with nonresident

Section
28.2-636

Leasing of certain bottoms in Rappahannock River prohibited

Section
28.2-637

Repealed

Section
28.2-638

Authority of Governor to authorize dredging of channel in navigable waters

Section
28.2-639

Certain public oyster rocks in Rappahannock River

Section
28.2-640

Declaring certain grounds in Mobjack Bay public oyster rocks

Section
28.2-641

Declaring certain areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

Section
28.2-642

Declaring certain other areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

Section
28.2-643

Declaring certain areas in Chesapeake Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

Section
28.2-644

Declaring certain areas near Hole in the Wall, in Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

Section
28.2-645

Declaring certain areas in Pocomoke Sound, Accomack County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

Section
28.2-646

Declaring certain areas in Piankatank River near Stove Point, Middlesex County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

Section
28.2-647

Declaring certain areas near the mouth of the Poquoson River, in York County, public oyster rocks, beds and shoals

Section
28.2-648

Declaring certain ground in Mobjack Bay, in Gloucester and Mathews Counties, to be public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals

Section
28.2-649

Acts which remain in force

Section
28.2-650

Dredging clams in polluted areas for replanting in public clamming grounds