CODE OF VIRGINIA

JURISDICTION OF COURTS OVER CERTAIN WATERS (§ 17.1-516)

Where any river, watercourse, or bay lies between any counties or any cities, or
any county and city in this Commonwealth, the circuit courts for the counties
and the cities, on each side, respectively, shall have concurrent territorial
jurisdiction over so much thereof as shall be opposite to such counties and
cities. And the circuit courts for counties and cities lying on the waters
bounding the Commonwealth shall have concurrent territorial jurisdiction
respectively over such waters opposite such counties and cities, as far as the
jurisdiction of this Commonwealth extends. This section shall not apply to the
City of Richmond.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5958, § 17-1; 1948, p. 151; 1998, c. 872; 2005, cc. 45,
114.