CODE OF VIRGINIA

LICENSE REQUIRED TO CONSTRUCT DAM; APPLICATION (§ 62.1-85)

The construction or reconstruction of any such dam as is mentioned in § 62.1-83
shall not be begun until the person, firm, association, corporation, private or
municipal, or public utility as defined in § 56-232 proposing to construct or
reconstruct the same shall first obtain a license so to do from the State
Corporation Commission. The application for such license shall be filed with the
Commission and in it all the essential facts shall be stated to enable the
Commission to pass upon its merits. A copy of such application shall also be
filed by the applicant with the Executive Director of the State Water Control
Board within ten days after filing such application with the State Corporation
Commission. Each application for license shall be accompanied by such maps,
plans and other information as may be necessary to give a clear and full
understanding of the proposed scheme of development, and of dams, generating
stations or other major structures, if any, involved therein.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-73; 1968, c. 659; 1982, c. 183.