                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 CONSENT REQUIRED BEFORE WORKING MINE NEAR LAND OF ANOTHER (§ 45.2-1303)

No owner or tenant of any land within the Commonwealth containing minerals shall
open or sink, dig, excavate, or work in any mine on such land within five feet
of the line dividing such land from that of another person without the written
consent of every person interested in or having title to such adjoining lands or
mineral rights in possession, reversion, or remainder, or of the guardian of any
such person that may be under a disability. Any person violating this section
shall forfeit $500 to each person injured by such violation and to each person
whose consent was required but not obtained.

HISTORY: 1997, c. 390, § 45.1-161.311:1; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.