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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86073</law_id><section_number>45.2-606</section_number><catch_line> Payment of attorney fees, expenses, and court costs</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="II">Coal Mining</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="A">Coal Mines Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="6">Coal Mining Property, Interests, Adjacent Owners, and Dams</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="2">Trusts for Coal Interests</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All attorney fees, expenses, and <span class="dictionary">court</span> costs incident to the original proceedings shall be paid by the lessee if a lease is executed and by the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> if for any reason no lease is executed. Subsequent to entry of <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, all allowable attorney fees, expenses, and <span class="dictionary">court</span> costs shall be paid out of funds controlled by the trustee.</p></section></text><history>2003, c. 775, &#xA7; 45.1-161.311:7; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
