CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTINUING OR REESTABLISHING HISTORIC BAYLOR SURVEY LINES (§ 28.2-551.1)

When private leaseholds granted by the Commission or its predecessors appear
within the Baylor Survey continuing pursuant to § 28.2-551 or as reestablished
pursuant to § 28.2-553, if it shall be established to the satisfaction of the
Commission, by petition duly filed prior to January 1, 2015, that the present or
former leaseholders or their predecessors in title were granted the leaseholds
within the area shown on “Atlantic Coast Chart No. 25″ of the
“Public Oyster Grounds, State of Virginia, 1895″ in good faith more
than five years previously and have made substantial improvements in such
leasehold bottoms since that time, the Commission shall reestablish the lines of
the Baylor Survey along the survey lines between the private leaseholds
previously approved. Any notice to vacate such leaseholds shall be of no
effect.In reestablishing Baylor Survey lines pursuant to this section, the
Commission may adjust the boundaries to facilitate ease of protection for the
public grounds, provided that such adjustment shall neither reduce nor enlarge
the area of public grounds, nor materially reduce or increase the value of the
private grounds whose boundaries are being adjusted.

HISTORY: 2014, c. 138.