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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\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 1968, chapter 659.<\/p>","references":[{"id":64874,"section_number":"62.1-114","catch_line":"Exceptions to application of chapter","order_by":null,"url":"\/62.1-114\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":270613,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55765,"identifier":"62.1-116","token":"62.1\/9\/62.1-116","url":"\/62.1-116\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/62.1-116\/","token":"62.1\/9\/62.1-116","dublin_core":{"Title":"Application for leave to build or raise dam across or in watercourse, cut canal, etc","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 62.1-116","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A person having upon lands owned by him on a watercourse, or proposing to build on such lands, a water mill, or other machine, manufactory, or engine, useful to the public, and desiring leave to erect a dam across, or in such watercourse (whether he own the lands on either side of the watercourse at the point where such dam is to be erected or not), or to cut or enlarge a canal through lands above or below, or to raise a dam which may have been erected under an order<\/span> of court<\/span>, or the owner of any such water mill, machine, manufactory, or engine, located on a watercourse, having the right to the use of such watercourse for the operation of his mill, machine, manufactory, or engine, and desiring leave to construct a work on or through the lands of another for the purpose of confining the watercourse within its customary channel or restoring it thereto where it has been diverted therefrom not more than three years by floods or other natural causes, may apply for such leave to the circuit<\/span> court<\/span> of the county wherein such mill, machine, manufactory, or engine stands, or is proposed to be built.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAPPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO BUILD OR RAISE DAM ACROSS OR IN WATERCOURSE, CUT CANAL,\nETC (\u00a7 62.1-116)\n\nA person having upon lands owned by him on a watercourse, or proposing to build\non such lands, a water mill, or other machine, manufactory, or engine, useful to\nthe public, and desiring leave to erect a dam across, or in such watercourse\n(whether he own the lands on either side of the watercourse at the point where\nsuch dam is to be erected or not), or to cut or enlarge a canal through lands\nabove or below, or to raise a dam which may have been erected under an order of\ncourt, or the owner of any such water mill, machine, manufactory, or engine,\nlocated on a watercourse, having the right to the use of such watercourse for\nthe operation of his mill, machine, manufactory, or engine, and desiring leave\nto construct a work on or through the lands of another for the purpose of\nconfining the watercourse within its customary channel or restoring it thereto\nwhere it has been diverted therefrom not more than three years by floods or\nother natural causes, may apply for such leave to the circuit court of the\ncounty wherein such mill, machine, manufactory, or engine stands, or is proposed\nto be built.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 62-95; 1968, c. 659.","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}}