                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MANAGEMENT OF FALSE CAPE STATE PARK (§ 10.1-205)

A. The Director shall adopt measures to safeguard the environment of False Cape
State Park. These shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

   1. Provisions to ensure that adequate drinking water and environmentally sound
   sewage disposal are provided for visitors to the Park;

   2. Adequate measures to protect the dunes, wildlife, and sensitive areas of
   the Park;

   3. Adequate measures to protect, wherever practicable, nesting areas of sea
   turtles, beach nesting birds, peregrine falcons, and other endangered species.

B. The Director shall be responsible for providing that law-enforcement, fire
and rescue services are available for the Park.

C. The Director shall consider limiting visitors into the Park to less than
2,000 per day if such a lower limit is necessary to preserve the Park
environment.

D. The Director shall consider further limiting visitors into the Park during
certain portions of the year if such a limitation is necessary to preserve the
environment of the Park and of the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

E. No motor powered vehicle of any kind shall be permitted upon the land of
False Cape State Park except as follows:

   1. A public transportation system operated by the Department, or its licensee
   or designee, to transport not more than 2,000 persons per day into and out of
   the Park;

   2. Official vehicles of the Commonwealth and of the City of Virginia Beach;

   3. Vehicles engaged in the construction and maintenance of improvements within
   the Park authorized by the Commonwealth;

   4. Police and emergency vehicles;

   5. Vehicles for which the operators thereof have been issued permits (i) by
   the Department of Interior, prior to July 1, 1984, pursuant to Public Law
   96-315 to travel through the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and (ii) by the
   Department to travel through the Park.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 706, § 10-21.3:2; 1988, c. 891.