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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77160</law_id><section_number>28.2-562</section_number><catch_line>Maps to be filed; evidential value</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>All maps of the bays, rivers, and creeks of this Commonwealth made by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> showing the location of oyster-planting grounds shall be filed in the office of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.
		Any such map and the areas of the individual assignments of platted oyster-planting grounds shall be <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> in all the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of this Commonwealth of all the oyster-planting grounds leased by the Commonwealth to private individuals at the time the survey and map were made.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 28-122; 1962, c. 406, &#xA7; 28.1-107; 1984, c. 4; 1992, c. 836.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
