                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 OWNERSHIP (§ 45.2-2002)

Ownership rights to a geothermal resource are in the owner of the surface
property underlain by the geothermal resource unless such rights have been
otherwise explicitly reserved or conveyed. Nothing in this section shall divest
the people or the Commonwealth of any rights, title, or interest they might have
in any geothermal resource.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 506, § 45.1-179.4; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.