                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PERSONS ENGAGED IN LUMBERING OR RAFTING ON CERTAIN WATERS MAY ADOPT MARK OF
DESIGNATION (§ 59.1-103)

It shall be lawful for any person at any time engaged in lumbering or rafting in
any manner upon the Elizabeth River in the Commonwealth of Virginia, or on any
of its tributaries, or in the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal or in the Dismal
Swamp Canal or in any river or creek lying within the boundaries of this
Commonwealth and connecting with either of such canals or upon the Chesapeake
Bay, to adopt a mark of designation wherewith to stamp or mark all sawlogs,
piles, hewn timber or square timber put or intended to be put by him in any of
such streams to be floated and rafted on the same. Such mark may be either in
letters, figures, words, names or other devices at the discretion of the person
adopting it.
		A statement of the mark so adopted with a certificate appended that the same
has been adopted as the mark of designation aforesaid, signed by the person
adopting the same, shall be furnished to the clerk of the circuit court of the
county or corporation court of the city where such person is doing business and
has his principal office.
		No person shall be entitled to adopt more than one of any of the respective
kinds of marks or stamps aforesaid as his mark of designation, but any such
person shall not be prohibited from using any other mark in addition to such
mark of designation for distinguishing different kinds or lots of timber
obtained from different localities, if it does not interfere with the mark of
designation of any other person.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59-200; 1968, c. 439.