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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?021+ful+CHAP0447\">447<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1371957,"object_type":"law","relational_id":345484,"identifier":"10.1-1181.12","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/13\/10.1-1181.12","url":"\/10.1-1181.12\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-1181.12\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/13\/10.1-1181.12","dublin_core":{"Title":"Exemption from article","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-1181.12","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The provisions of this article shall not apply to any person who supplies the Department of <span class=\"dictionary\">Forestry<\/span> with information or documentation showing that such person was actively engaged in the practice of <span class=\"dictionary\">forestry<\/span> for a continuous period of at least ten years prior to July 1, 2002. 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