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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60429</law_id><section_number>28.2-551.1</section_number><catch_line>Continuing or reestablishing historic Baylor Survey lines</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="II">Tidal Fisheries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Oysters and Clams</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Surveys and Resurveys</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When private leaseholds granted by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> or its predecessors appear within the Baylor Survey continuing pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Surveys and reports as conclusive evidence" href="/28.2-551/">28.2-551</a> or as reestablished pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Reestablishment of lines of Baylor survey; procedure; evidence of reestablished lines" href="/28.2-553/">28.2-553</a>, if it shall be established to the satisfaction of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, by <span class="dictionary">petition</span> duly filed prior to January 1, 2015, that the present or former leaseholders or their predecessors in title were granted the leaseholds within the area shown on &#x201C;Atlantic Coast Chart No. 25&#x2033; of the &#x201C;Public Oyster Grounds, State of Virginia, 1895&#x2033; in good faith more than five years previously and have made substantial improvements in such leasehold bottoms since that time, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall reestablish the lines of the Baylor Survey along the survey lines between the private leaseholds previously approved. Any notice to vacate such leaseholds shall be of no effect.
		In reestablishing Baylor Survey lines pursuant to this section, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may adjust the boundaries to facilitate ease of protection for the public grounds, provided that such adjustment shall neither reduce nor enlarge the area of public grounds, nor materially reduce or increase the value of the private grounds whose boundaries are being adjusted.</p></section></text><history>2014, c. 138.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
