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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62897</law_id><section_number>45.2-1605</section_number><catch_line> Exclusivity of regulation and enforcement</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="45.2">Mines, Minerals, and Energy</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Gas and Oil</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="16">Virginia Gas and Oil Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No locality or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth shall impose any condition or require any other local license, permit, fee, or <span class="dictionary">bond</span> that varies from or is in addition to the requirements of this chapter to perform any <span class="dictionary">gas</span>, <span class="dictionary">oil</span>, or <span class="dictionary">geophysical operation</span>. However, no provision of this chapter shall be construed to limit or supersede the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> or requirements of any other state agency, local land-use <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, regulation of general purpose, or &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Counties and cities authorized to levy severance tax on gases" href="/58.1-3712/">58.1-3712</a>, <a class="law" title="Local gas road improvement and Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority tax" href="/58.1-3713/">58.1-3713</a>, <a class="law" title="Validation of local coal and gas severance tax ordinances and local coal and gas road improvement tax ordinances" href="/58.1-3713.3/">58.1-3713.3</a>, <a class="law" title="Additional one percent tax on gas" href="/58.1-3713.4/">58.1-3713.4</a>, <a class="law" title="Counties and cities authorized to levy severance license tax on the sale of coal" href="/58.1-3741/">58.1-3741</a>, <a class="law" title="Distribution of local coal road improvement severance tax" href="/58.1-3742/">58.1-3742</a>, or <a class="law" title="Severance license taxes to be paid to jurisdiction in which coal is severed" href="/58.1-3743/">58.1-3743</a>.</p></section></text><history>1990, c. 92, &#xA7; 45.1-361.5; 2013, cc. 305, 618; 2016, c. 305; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
