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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86985</law_id><section_number>28.2-553</section_number><catch_line>Reestablishment of lines of Baylor survey; procedure; evidence of reestablished lines</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>28.2-551.1</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="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>The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may reestablish, relocate, and remark all lines of the Baylor survey which cannot be otherwise relocated because of the loss or destruction of previous marks. In reestablishing any such lines, the line surveyed by Fred E. Ruediger shall be followed wherever such line exists or was surveyed. Where no former line can be reestablished the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may establish a new line.
		When such grounds or lines have been reestablished and relocated, the reestablishment and relocation shall be conclusive <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> in all <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of the Commonwealth that such grounds are public oyster rocks, beds, or <span class="dictionary">shoals</span> and that all grounds lying outside of such boundaries are rental grounds. Plats shall be made under the direction of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> showing the reestablishment of such lines, and shall be recorded in the appropriate clerk&#x2019;s office.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 28-118; 1962, c. 406, &#xA7; 28.1-101; 1964, c. 393; 1992, c. 836.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
