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The exclusive privileges prescribed with respect to owners and their lessees and permittees in \u00a7 29.1-344 shall be recurrent each year even if the privileges were forfeited to some other person or persons in the preceding year. If any blind is destroyed in any manner beyond the control of the owner, it may be replaced within thirty days without losing the position which it formerly occupied. Those licensing stationary blinds in the public waters shall remove the blinds when the licenses expire or when they no longer intend to use them, whichever occurs first.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":230984,"text":"The holders of licenses first issued under this article may renew the same privileges each succeeding year by licensing within the time required and placing the license tag on the stake or blind as required by this article. 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\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 1987, chapter 488; in 2013, chapter 745<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":56674,"section_number":"29.1-351","catch_line":"Regulations to be issued; present regulations continued in force","order_by":null,"url":"\/29.1-351\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":70124,"section_number":"29.1-344","catch_line":"Stationary blinds on shore and in the public waters for owners of riparian rights","order_by":null,"url":"\/29.1-344\/"}],"permalink":{"id":192805,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63392,"identifier":"29.1-347","token":"29.1\/3\/2\/29.1-347","url":"\/29.1-347\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/29.1-347\/","token":"29.1\/3\/2\/29.1-347","dublin_core":{"Title":"Renewing licenses","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 29.1-347","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The holders of licenses first issued under this article may renew the same privileges<\/span> each succeeding year by licensing within the time required and placing the license tag on the stake or blind as required by this article. The exclusive privileges<\/span> prescribed with respect to owners and their lessees and permittees in \u00a7 29.1-344<\/a> shall be recurrent each year even if the privileges<\/span> were forfeited to some other person or persons in the preceding year. If any blind is destroyed in any manner beyond the control of the owner, it may be replaced within thirty days without losing the position which it formerly occupied. Those licensing stationary blinds in the public waters shall remove the blinds when the licenses expire or when they no longer intend to use them, whichever occurs first.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRENEWING LICENSES (\u00a7 29.1-347)\n\nThe holders of licenses first issued under this article may renew the same\nprivileges each succeeding year by licensing within the time required and\nplacing the license tag on the stake or blind as required by this article. The\nexclusive privileges prescribed with respect to owners and their lessees and\npermittees in \u00a7 29.1-344 shall be recurrent each year even if the privileges\nwere forfeited to some other person or persons in the preceding year. If any\nblind is destroyed in any manner beyond the control of the owner, it may be\nreplaced within thirty days without losing the position which it formerly\noccupied. Those licensing stationary blinds in the public waters shall remove\nthe blinds when the licenses expire or when they no longer intend to use them,\nwhichever occurs first.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 29-88; 1987, c. 488; 2013, c. 745.","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}}