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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0547\">547<\/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":[{"id":61019,"section_number":"28.2-826","catch_line":"Crassostrea ariakensis","order_by":null,"url":"\/28.2-826\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":191945,"object_type":"law","relational_id":54222,"identifier":"28.2-1204.1","token":"28.2\/III\/12\/1\/28.2-1204.1","url":"\/28.2-1204.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/28.2-1204.1\/","token":"28.2\/III\/12\/1\/28.2-1204.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Submerged aquatic vegetation","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 28.2-1204.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Commission<\/span> shall, in consultation with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, develop guidelines containing criteria for use in:<\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">1.<\/span> Defining existing beds of submerged aquatic vegetation; and <a id=\"paragraph-199111\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/28.2-1204.1\/#1\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"2\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">2.<\/span> Delineating areas where there is potential for submerged aquatic vegetation restoration. <a id=\"paragraph-199112\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/28.2-1204.1\/#2\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATION (\u00a7 28.2-1204.1)\n\nThe Commission shall, in consultation with the Virginia Institute of Marine\nScience, develop guidelines containing criteria for use in:\n\n1. Defining existing beds of submerged aquatic vegetation; and\n\n2. Delineating areas where there is potential for submerged aquatic vegetation\nrestoration.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 547.","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}}