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If an owner of surface rights or mineral rights desires to conduct other mining operations on lands disturbed by the operator furnishing bond pursuant to this chapter, such owner or other person shall be in all respects subject to the provisions of this chapter and the Director shall then release an equivalent amount of bonds to the operator originally furnishing bond on the disturbed area.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":202400,"text":"It is unlawful for any owner of surface rights or mineral rights to interfere with the operator in the discharge of his obligations to the Commonwealth for the reclamation of lands disturbed by him. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 734 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 1968 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 1974, chapter 312.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":224499,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55202,"identifier":"45.2-1222","token":"45.2\/III\/A\/12\/2\/45.2-1222","url":"\/45.2-1222\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/45.2-1222\/","token":"45.2\/III\/A\/12\/2\/45.2-1222","dublin_core":{"Title":" Interference with reclamation unlawful; other mining operations on land","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 45.2-1222","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>It is unlawful for any owner of surface rights or <span class=\"dictionary\">mineral<\/span> rights to interfere with the <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span> in the discharge of his obligations to the Commonwealth for the <span class=\"dictionary\">reclamation<\/span> of lands disturbed by him. 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If an owner of surface rights or\nmineral rights desires to conduct other mining operations on lands disturbed by\nthe operator furnishing bond pursuant to this chapter, such owner or other\nperson shall be in all respects subject to the provisions of this chapter and\nthe Director shall then release an equivalent amount of bonds to the operator\noriginally furnishing bond on the disturbed area.\n\nHISTORY: 1968, c. 734, \u00a7 45.1-188; 1974, c. 312; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.","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}}