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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61404</law_id><section_number>10.1-1164</section_number><catch_line>Pine trees to be left uncut for reseeding purposes</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>10.1-1168</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="10.1">Conservation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Activities Administered by Other Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="9">Seed Trees</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every landowner who cuts, or any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who cuts or procures another to cut, or any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who owns the timber at the time of cutting and knowingly and willfully allows to be cut, for commercial purposes, timber from ten acres or more of land on which loblolly or white pine, singly or together, occur and constitute twenty-five percent or more of the live <span class="dictionary">trees</span> on each acre or acres, shall reserve and leave uncut and uninjured not less than eight cone-bearing loblolly or white pine <span class="dictionary">trees</span> fourteen inches or larger in <span class="dictionary">diameter</span> on each acre thus cut and upon each acre on which such pine <span class="dictionary">trees</span> occur singly or together, unless there is in effect for such land a planting, cutting or management plan as provided in subsection D of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exemptions from article" href="/10.1-1163/">10.1-1163</a>. Where eight cone-bearing loblolly or white pine <span class="dictionary">trees</span> fourteen inches or larger in <span class="dictionary">diameter</span> are not present on any particular acre, there shall be left uncut and uninjured for each such pine two cone-bearing pine <span class="dictionary">trees</span> of the largest <span class="dictionary">diameter</span> present less than fourteen inches in <span class="dictionary">diameter</span>. Such pine <span class="dictionary">trees</span> shall be left uncut for the purpose of reseeding the land and shall be healthy, windfirm, and of well-developed crowns, evidencing seed-bearing ability by the presence of cones in the crowns.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 10-76; 1950, p. 58; 1952, c. 417; 1956, c. 75; 1960, c. 244; 1968, c. 73; 1988, c. 891; 1996, c. 285.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
