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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66330</law_id><section_number>28.2-1500</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-1136</reference><reference>2.2-1147</reference><reference>41.1-3</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="III">Habitat</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Ungranted Shores of the Sea, Marshes and Meadowlands</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;Beach&#x201D; shall have the same meaning ascribed thereto in subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/28.2-1400/">28.2-1400</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Initial inventory</span>&#x201D; means a set of maps prepared by, at the direction of, or with the approval of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> which have been filed prior to January 1, 1995, with the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> and the <span class="dictionary">commissioner</span> of revenue in any county in that portion of the Commonwealth separated from the larger portion of the Commonwealth by the Chesapeake Bay and in which the ungranted <span class="dictionary">shores of the sea</span>, marsh and meadowlands mapped therein are located.
		&#x201C;Inventory&#x201D; means a set of maps prepared by, at the direction of, or with the approval of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, mapping certain ungranted <span class="dictionary">shores of the sea</span>, marsh and meadowlands in any county in that portion of the Commonwealth separated from the larger portion of the Commonwealth by the Chesapeake Bay.
		&#x201C;Marsh&#x201D; or &#x201C;meadowland&#x201D; shall have the same meaning ascribed to vegetated wetlands in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/28.2-1300/">28.2-1300</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Shores of the sea</span>&#x201D; means a beach or any unvegetated lands lying contiguous to mean low water and between mean low water and mean high water.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Ungranted <span class="dictionary">shores of the sea</span>, marsh or meadowlands</span>&#x201D; means (i) <span class="dictionary">shores of the sea</span> which were not conveyed by special grant or compact according to <span class="dictionary">law</span> prior to April 1, 1873, and which have not been conveyed by special grant of the General Assembly on or after that date and (ii) marsh or meadowlands which were not appropriated and remained ungranted prior to February 24, 1888, and which have not been conveyed by special grant of the General Assembly on or after that date.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Virginia Coastal Land Management Advisory Council</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;Council&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Virginia Coastal Land Management Advisory Council</span> created pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Virginia Coastal Land Management Advisory Council established" href="/28.2-1505/">28.2-1505</a>.</p></section></text><history>1995, c. 850.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
