                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTROL AND REPAIRS; PENALTY FOR INJURY TO CONSTRUCTION (§ 21-364)

Whenever any improvement constructed under this chapter is completed, it shall
be under the control and supervision of the board of viewers of the project in
the county in which the petition was filed. It shall be the duty of the board to
keep the levee, ditch or watercourse in good repair, and for this purpose they
may levy an assessment on the lands benefited by the construction of such
improvements in the same manner and in the same proportions as the original
assessments were made, and the fund that is collected shall be used for
repairing and maintaining the ditch, drain or watercourse in perfect order; but
if any repairs are made necessary by the act or negligence of the owner of any
land through which such improvement is constructed, or by the act or negligence
of his tenants, agents or employees or the same is caused by cattle, hogs, or
other stock of the owner, employee, or agent, then the cost thereof shall be
assessed and levied against the lands of the owner alone, to be collected by
proper suit instituted by the board of viewers.
		It shall be unlawful for any person to injure or damage or obstruct or build
any bridge, roadway, fence or flood gate in such a way as to injure or damage
any levee, ditch, drain, or watercourse constructed or improved under the
provisions of this chapter, and any person causing such injury shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof may be fined any sum not exceeding
twice the damage for injury done or caused.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 1769; 1926, p. 618; 1954, c. 642.