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He may make available to landowners, with or without charge, use of specialized state-owned equipment and tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and services of specialized state personnel for the purpose of preparing land for reforestation and reforesting land devoted to growing timber, in accordance with administrative regulations.\n\t\tUpon the completion of each separate reforestation project in accordance with the recommendations and approval of the State Forester, the State Forester shall determine the total cost of the project including money paid or payable to a contractor for services performed on the project, for labor, and for other costs incurred by the landowner, including a standard rental rate value for use of state-owned equipment and the cost of tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and specialized state personnel used on the project.\n\t\tThe following incentive to reforesting land may be utilized by the State Forester: whenever a landowner completes a reforestation project in accordance with the recommendations and approval of the State Forester, through the use of his own equipment, material and personnel, or through the employment of a contractor where no state equipment, materials or personnel are used, or are used only in part, the State Forester shall determine the total cost of the project based on current commercial rental rate for machines similar to types used, cost of material, and cost of personnel where the landowner does his own work on the project, or based on the contractor’s statement of cost or paid receipts furnished by the landowner where work is done by a contractor together with and at the standard rental value for use of any state-owned specialized equipment, tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and specialized state personnel used on the project. The State Forester, from funds appropriated for the purposes of this article, may pay to the landowner an amount not to exceed seventy-five percent of the total cost of the project, as above determined, or ninety dollars per acre, whichever is the lesser.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":206492,"text":"The State Forester is authorized, upon the request of a landowner, to examine timberland and make recommendations concerning reforestation. 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This law was first created in 1981. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 371 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 1981 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 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 1984, chapter 750; in 1986, chapter 567; in 1988, chapter 891.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":144877,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56397,"identifier":"10.1-1173","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/10\/10.1-1173","url":"\/10.1-1173\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-1173\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/10\/10.1-1173","dublin_core":{"Title":"Authority of State Forester; reforestation options; lien","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-1173","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The State Forester is authorized, upon the request of a landowner, to examine timberland and make recommendations concerning reforestation. He may make available to landowners, with or without charge, use of specialized state-owned equipment and tree seedlings, tree seed, materials<\/span>, and services of specialized state personnel for the purpose of preparing land for reforestation and reforesting land devoted to growing timber, in accordance with administrative regulations.\n\t\tUpon the completion of each separate reforestation project in accordance with the recommendations and approval of the State Forester, the State Forester shall determine the total cost of the project including money paid or payable to a contractor for services performed on the project, for labor, and for other costs incurred by the landowner, including a standard rental rate value for use of state-owned equipment and the cost of tree seedlings, tree seed, materials<\/span>, and specialized state personnel used on the project.\n\t\tThe following incentive to reforesting land may be utilized by the State Forester: whenever a landowner completes a reforestation project in accordance with the recommendations and approval of the State Forester, through the use of his own equipment, material<\/span> and personnel, or through the employment of a contractor where no state equipment, materials<\/span> or personnel are used, or are used only in part, the State Forester shall determine the total cost of the project based on current commercial rental rate for machines similar to types used, cost of material<\/span>, and cost of personnel where the landowner does his own work on the project, or based on the contractor’s statement of cost or paid receipts furnished by the landowner where work is done by a contractor together with and at the standard rental value for use of any state-owned specialized equipment, tree seedlings, tree seed, materials<\/span>, and specialized state personnel used on the project. The State Forester, from funds appropriated for the purposes of this article, may pay to the landowner an amount not to exceed seventy-five percent of the total cost of the project, as above determined, or ninety dollars per acre, whichever is the lesser.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAUTHORITY OF STATE FORESTER; REFORESTATION OPTIONS; LIEN (\u00a7 10.1-1173)\n\nThe State Forester is authorized, upon the request of a landowner, to examine\ntimberland and make recommendations concerning reforestation. He may make\navailable to landowners, with or without charge, use of specialized state-owned\nequipment and tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and services of specialized\nstate personnel for the purpose of preparing land for reforestation and\nreforesting land devoted to growing timber, in accordance with administrative\nregulations.\n\t\tUpon the completion of each separate reforestation project in accordance with\nthe recommendations and approval of the State Forester, the State Forester shall\ndetermine the total cost of the project including money paid or payable to a\ncontractor for services performed on the project, for labor, and for other costs\nincurred by the landowner, including a standard rental rate value for use of\nstate-owned equipment and the cost of tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and\nspecialized state personnel used on the project.\n\t\tThe following incentive to reforesting land may be utilized by the State\nForester: whenever a landowner completes a reforestation project in accordance\nwith the recommendations and approval of the State Forester, through the use of\nhis own equipment, material and personnel, or through the employment of a\ncontractor where no state equipment, materials or personnel are used, or are\nused only in part, the State Forester shall determine the total cost of the\nproject based on current commercial rental rate for machines similar to types\nused, cost of material, and cost of personnel where the landowner does his own\nwork on the project, or based on the contractor’s statement of cost or\npaid receipts furnished by the landowner where work is done by a contractor\ntogether with and at the standard rental value for use of any state-owned\nspecialized equipment, tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and specialized\nstate personnel used on the project. The State Forester, from funds appropriated\nfor the purposes of this article, may pay to the landowner an amount not to\nexceed seventy-five percent of the total cost of the project, as above\ndetermined, or ninety dollars per acre, whichever is the lesser.\n\nHISTORY: 1981, c. 371, \u00a7 10-90.36; 1984, c. 750; 1986, c. 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}}