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Any notice to vacate such leaseholds shall be of no effect.\n\t\tIn reestablishing Baylor Survey lines pursuant to this section, the Commission may adjust the boundaries to facilitate ease of protection for the public grounds, provided that such adjustment shall neither reduce nor enlarge the area of public grounds, nor materially reduce or increase the value of the private grounds whose boundaries are being adjusted.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":220958,"text":"When private leaseholds granted by the Commission or its predecessors appear within the Baylor Survey continuing pursuant to \u00a7 28.2-551 or as reestablished pursuant to \u00a7 28.2-553, if it shall be established to the satisfaction of the Commission, by petition duly filed prior to January 1, 2015, that the present or former leaseholders or their predecessors in title were granted the leaseholds within the area shown on “Atlantic Coast Chart No. 25″ of the “Public Oyster Grounds, State of Virginia, 1895″ in good faith more than five years previously and have made substantial improvements in such leasehold bottoms since that time, the Commission shall reestablish the lines of the Baylor Survey along the survey lines between the private leaseholds previously approved. 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This law was first created in 2014. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 138<\/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":[{"id":58956,"section_number":"28.2-551","catch_line":"Surveys and reports as conclusive evidence","order_by":null,"url":"\/28.2-551\/"},{"id":86985,"section_number":"28.2-553","catch_line":"Reestablishment of lines of Baylor survey; procedure; evidence of reestablished lines","order_by":null,"url":"\/28.2-553\/"}],"permalink":{"id":191425,"object_type":"law","relational_id":60429,"identifier":"28.2-551.1","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/4\/28.2-551.1","url":"\/28.2-551.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/28.2-551.1\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/4\/28.2-551.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Continuing or reestablishing historic Baylor Survey lines","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 28.2-551.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

When private leaseholds granted by the Commission<\/span> or its predecessors appear within the Baylor Survey continuing pursuant to \u00a7 28.2-551<\/a> or as reestablished pursuant to \u00a7 28.2-553<\/a>, if it shall be established to the satisfaction of the Commission<\/span>, by petition<\/span> duly filed prior to January 1, 2015, that the present or former leaseholders or their predecessors in title were granted the leaseholds within the area shown on “Atlantic Coast Chart No. 25″ of the “Public Oyster Grounds, State of Virginia, 1895″ in good faith more than five years previously and have made substantial improvements in such leasehold bottoms since that time, the Commission<\/span> shall reestablish the lines of the Baylor Survey along the survey lines between the private leaseholds previously approved. Any notice to vacate such leaseholds shall be of no effect.\n\t\tIn reestablishing Baylor Survey lines pursuant to this section, the Commission<\/span> may adjust the boundaries to facilitate ease of protection for the public grounds, provided that such adjustment shall neither reduce nor enlarge the area of public grounds, nor materially reduce or increase the value of the private grounds whose boundaries are being adjusted.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCONTINUING OR REESTABLISHING HISTORIC BAYLOR SURVEY LINES (\u00a7 28.2-551.1)\n\nWhen private leaseholds granted by the Commission or its predecessors appear\nwithin the Baylor Survey continuing pursuant to \u00a7 28.2-551 or as reestablished\npursuant to \u00a7 28.2-553, if it shall be established to the satisfaction of the\nCommission, by petition duly filed prior to January 1, 2015, that the present or\nformer leaseholders or their predecessors in title were granted the leaseholds\nwithin the area shown on “Atlantic Coast Chart No. 25″ of the\n“Public Oyster Grounds, State of Virginia, 1895″ in good faith more\nthan five years previously and have made substantial improvements in such\nleasehold bottoms since that time, the Commission shall reestablish the lines of\nthe Baylor Survey along the survey lines between the private leaseholds\npreviously approved. Any notice to vacate such leaseholds shall be of no effect.\n\t\tIn reestablishing Baylor Survey lines pursuant to this section, the Commission\nmay adjust the boundaries to facilitate ease of protection for the public\ngrounds, provided that such adjustment shall neither reduce nor enlarge the area\nof public grounds, nor materially reduce or increase the value of the private\ngrounds whose boundaries are being adjusted.\n\nHISTORY: 2014, c. 138.","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}}