                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY TO AUTHORIZE AND REGULATE EXPERIMENTAL OYSTER HATCHERY PROGRAM (§
28.2-1004)

The Potomac River Fisheries Commission shall have the power to make, adopt and
permit such rules and regulations and to take such action as may be necessary or
advisable for authorizing and regulating a pilot program for experimental oyster
hatchery seed planting, growing, and harvesting with private planters and public
and private scientific agencies engaged in similar work in its jurisdiction, and
may set aside available barren natural oyster rocks for this purpose and to
allow dredging of same for inspection, sampling and harvesting under the
supervision and control of the Potomac River Fisheries Commission and in
cooperation with the Maryland or Virginia public scientific agencies, Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory and Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
		The provisions of this section shall not take effect until a similar act
becomes effective in the State of Maryland, whereupon the Governor of Virginia
shall issue a proclamation declaring the provisions of this section to be
effective.

HISTORY: 1974, c. 89, § 28.1-228; 1992, c. 836 .