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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83264</law_id><section_number>28.2-101</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction of Commission</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1725.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="28.2">Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions Relating to Marine Resources Commission</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Administration</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Commission; Commissioner</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall include the Commonwealth&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">territorial sea</span> and extend to the fall line of all tidal rivers and streams except in the case of state-owned bottomlands where <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> extends throughout the Commonwealth. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over all commercial <span class="dictionary">fishing</span> and all <span class="dictionary">marine fish</span>, <span class="dictionary">marine shellfish</span>, <span class="dictionary">marine organisms</span>, and <span class="dictionary">habitat</span> in such areas. In waters of the Albemarle and Currituck watersheds, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">fisheries</span> management <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> is limited to the recreational and commercial harvest of blue crabs. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> shall also include the power to exercise regulatory authority over all structures and improvements built or proposed by riparian property owners in the Potomac River appurtenant to the shore of the Commonwealth. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall exercise such regulatory authority in the Potomac River consistent with the provisions of Subtitle III (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Ungranted beds of bays, rivers, creeks and shores of the sea to remain in common" href="/28.2-1200/">28.2-1200</a> et seq.), and all regulations, guidance, and policies adopted thereunder.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 28-3; 1950, p. 979; 1962, c. 406, &#xA7; 28.1-3; 1968, c. 746; 1992, c. 836; 2005, c. 191; 2012, c. 595.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
