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No law-enforcement officer paid in whole or in part from public funds or employee of the Department shall be eligible to receive such reward.\n\t\tAll such reward money shall be paid from funds appropriated for the protection and development of the forest resources of this Commonwealth, and shall not exceed either $10,000 paid in any one fiscal year or $2,000 paid to any one person for information leading to any one conviction.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":283675,"text":"The State Forester shall be authorized, whenever it appears to him that forest fires in any part of the Commonwealth are caused by unknown arsonists or incendiaries, to offer a monetary reward for information sufficient to procure conviction in a court of appropriate jurisdiction of the person or persons responsible for such fire. No law-enforcement officer paid in whole or in part from public funds or employee of the Department shall be eligible to receive such reward.\n\t\tAll such reward money shall be paid from funds appropriated for the protection and development of the forest resources of this Commonwealth, and shall not exceed either $10,000 paid in any one fiscal year or $2,000 paid to any one person for information leading to any one conviction.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":15539,"edition_id":1,"name":"Forest Wardens and Fires","identifier":"6","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12782,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:56:08","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:56:08","permalink":{"id":145155,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":15539,"identifier":"6","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/6","url":"\/10.1\/II\/11\/6\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12782,"edition_id":1,"name":"Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry","identifier":"11","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12741,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","permalink":{"id":144835,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12782,"identifier":"11","token":"10.1\/II\/11","url":"\/10.1\/II\/11\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12741,"edition_id":1,"name":"Activities Administered by Other Entities","identifier":"II","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12740,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":144833,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12741,"identifier":"II","token":"10.1\/II","url":"\/10.1\/II\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12740,"edition_id":1,"name":"Conservation","identifier":"10.1","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":143313,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12740,"identifier":"10.1","token":"10.1","url":"\/10.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":75003,"structure_id":15539,"section_number":"10.1-1134.1","catch_line":"Definitions","url":"\/10.1-1134.1\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/6\/10.1-1134.1","metadata":false},{"id":87311,"structure_id":15539,"section_number":"10.1-1135","catch_line":"Appointment and compensation of forest wardens; 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 8 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. Unfortunately, the 1966 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1986, chapters 188 and 567; in 1988, chapter 891.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":145173,"object_type":"law","relational_id":79227,"identifier":"10.1-1138","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/6\/10.1-1138","url":"\/10.1-1138\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-1138\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/6\/10.1-1138","dublin_core":{"Title":"Rewards for information leading to conviction of arsonists or incendiaries","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-1138","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The State Forester shall be authorized, whenever it appears to him that forest fires in any part of the Commonwealth are caused by unknown arsonists or incendiaries, to offer a monetary reward for information sufficient to procure <span class=\"dictionary\">conviction<\/span> in a <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> of appropriate <span class=\"dictionary\">jurisdiction<\/span> of the person or persons responsible for such fire. No <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span>-enforcement officer paid in whole or in part from public funds or employee of the Department shall be eligible to receive such reward.\n\t\tAll such reward money shall be paid from funds appropriated for the protection and development of the forest resources of this Commonwealth, and shall not exceed either $10,000 paid in any one fiscal year or $2,000 paid to any one person for information leading to any one <span class=\"dictionary\">conviction<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREWARDS FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO CONVICTION OF ARSONISTS OR INCENDIARIES (\u00a7\n10.1-1138)\n\nThe State Forester shall be authorized, whenever it appears to him that forest\nfires in any part of the Commonwealth are caused by unknown arsonists or\nincendiaries, to offer a monetary reward for information sufficient to procure\nconviction in a court of appropriate jurisdiction of the person or persons\nresponsible for such fire. No law-enforcement officer paid in whole or in part\nfrom public funds or employee of the Department shall be eligible to receive\nsuch reward.\n\t\tAll such reward money shall be paid from funds appropriated for the protection\nand development of the forest resources of this Commonwealth, and shall not\nexceed either $10,000 paid in any one fiscal year or $2,000 paid to any one\nperson for information leading to any one conviction.\n\nHISTORY: 1966, c. 8, \u00a7 10-57.1; 1986, cc. 188, 567; 1988, c. 891.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}