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This law was first created in 1978. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 634 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 1978 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online.<\/p>","references":[{"id":73073,"section_number":"45.2-1240","catch_line":" Decreases in size of Fund","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1240\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":79992,"section_number":"45.2-1212","catch_line":" Additional bond to be posted annually; release of previous bond; report of reclamation work","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1212\/"},{"id":73073,"section_number":"45.2-1240","catch_line":" Decreases in size of Fund","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1240\/"}],"permalink":{"id":224563,"object_type":"law","relational_id":60348,"identifier":"45.2-1237","token":"45.2\/III\/A\/12\/4\/45.2-1237","url":"\/45.2-1237\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/45.2-1237\/","token":"45.2\/III\/A\/12\/4\/45.2-1237","dublin_core":{"Title":" Return of member payments","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 45.2-1237","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Subject to the provisions of \u00a7 45.2-1240<\/a>, the Director<\/span> shall return from the Fund to the member any payment that the member has previously paid to the Fund once the Director<\/span> determines that the member has completed satisfactory reclamation<\/span> in accordance with \u00a7 45.2-1212<\/a>. The payments returned shall be only those payments that the member made for the acres that have been satisfactorily reclaimed. In lieu of such return, the member may request that the Director<\/span> retain the payments in the Fund as payments for additional acres to be disturbed by the member’s operations.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n RETURN OF MEMBER PAYMENTS (\u00a7 45.2-1237)\n\nSubject to the provisions of \u00a7 45.2-1240, the Director shall return from the\nFund to the member any payment that the member has previously paid to the Fund\nonce the Director determines that the member has completed satisfactory\nreclamation in accordance with \u00a7 45.2-1212. The payments returned shall be only\nthose payments that the member made for the acres that have been satisfactorily\nreclaimed. In lieu of such return, the member may request that the Director\nretain the payments in the Fund as payments for additional acres to be disturbed\nby the member’s operations.\n\nHISTORY: 1978, c. 634, \u00a7 45.1-197.11; 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}}