                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PREVENTIVE AND CONTROL MEASURES (§ 10.1-541)

Districts are authorized to carry out preventive and control measures and works
of improvement for flood prevention or agricultural and nonagricultural phases
of the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water within the
district including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of
cultivation, the growing of vegetation and changes in use of land on lands owned
or controlled by the Commonwealth or any of its agencies, with the consent and
cooperation of the agency administering and having jurisdiction thereof, and on
any other lands within the district upon obtaining the consent of the owner and
occupier of such lands or the necessary rights or interests in such lands.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 21-56; 1956, c. 654; 1970, c. 480; 1988, c. 891.