                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY OF STATE FORESTER; REFORESTATION OPTIONS; LIEN (§ 10.1-1173)

The State Forester is authorized, upon the request of a landowner, to examine
timberland and make recommendations concerning reforestation. He may make
available to landowners, with or without charge, use of specialized state-owned
equipment and tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and services of specialized
state personnel for the purpose of preparing land for reforestation and
reforesting land devoted to growing timber, in accordance with administrative
regulations.
		Upon the completion of each separate reforestation project in accordance with
the recommendations and approval of the State Forester, the State Forester shall
determine the total cost of the project including money paid or payable to a
contractor for services performed on the project, for labor, and for other costs
incurred by the landowner, including a standard rental rate value for use of
state-owned equipment and the cost of tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and
specialized state personnel used on the project.
		The following incentive to reforesting land may be utilized by the State
Forester: whenever a landowner completes a reforestation project in accordance
with the recommendations and approval of the State Forester, through the use of
his own equipment, material and personnel, or through the employment of a
contractor where no state equipment, materials or personnel are used, or are
used only in part, the State Forester shall determine the total cost of the
project based on current commercial rental rate for machines similar to types
used, cost of material, and cost of personnel where the landowner does his own
work on the project, or based on the contractor&#8217;s statement of cost or
paid receipts furnished by the landowner where work is done by a contractor
together with and at the standard rental value for use of any state-owned
specialized equipment, tree seedlings, tree seed, materials, and specialized
state personnel used on the project. The State Forester, from funds appropriated
for the purposes of this article, may pay to the landowner an amount not to
exceed seventy-five percent of the total cost of the project, as above
determined, or ninety dollars per acre, whichever is the lesser.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 371, § 10-90.36; 1984, c. 750; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891.