                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RAISING OR LOWERING FLOODGATES (§ 33.2-411)

The owner or occupier of a dam shall raise or lower the floodgates on such dam
when there is an impending flood in order to reduce the level of the water in
the pond, and when it comes to the attention of the Commissioner of Highways
that this has not been done, or that the owner is unable to reach the spillway
in order to do so, the Commissioner of Highways may perform this duty.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-92; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-178; 2014, c. 805.