                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SALE OF UNCLAIMED TIMBER, ETC., FOUND ADRIFT; DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS (§
59.1-106)

Any person, except the owner thereof, taking up and securing any sawlog, pile,
hewn timber or square timber detached from any raft and found adrift or aground
on any of the waters or streams mentioned in § 59.1-103, shall promptly report
such fact to the owner thereof, or shall lodge a list containing a description
of the quantity, quality, and marks, if any, of such timber with a magistrate
serving the jurisdiction where such timber was so found and secured, which
magistrate shall promptly advertise the same for five consecutive days in a
newspaper published in the City of Norfolk. If such timber shall not be claimed
by the owner thereof within thirty days after such publication it shall be
lawful for the magistrate to order the sale thereof at public auction by an
officer after giving five days&#8217; notice of the time, place, and terms of
such sale by not less than six handbills posted in the most public places in the
vicinity where the same was found and within the county wherein the magistrate
serves. Out of the proceeds of such sale the magistrate, after paying the
expenses of the advertisement and handbills, together with all the other costs
of such proceeding at law, shall pay to the person or persons who found and
secured the timber ten cents for each piece thereof so taken and secured, and
the residue of such proceeds of sale shall be paid into the state treasury for
the benefit of the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59-203; 1968, c. 439; 2008, cc. 551, 691.