                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO BUILD OR RAISE DAM ACROSS OR IN WATERCOURSE, CUT CANAL,
ETC (§ 62.1-116)

A person having upon lands owned by him on a watercourse, or proposing to build
on such lands, a water mill, or other machine, manufactory, or engine, useful to
the public, and desiring leave to erect a dam across, or in such watercourse
(whether he own the lands on either side of the watercourse at the point where
such dam is to be erected or not), or to cut or enlarge a canal through lands
above or below, or to raise a dam which may have been erected under an order of
court, or the owner of any such water mill, machine, manufactory, or engine,
located on a watercourse, having the right to the use of such watercourse for
the operation of his mill, machine, manufactory, or engine, and desiring leave
to construct a work on or through the lands of another for the purpose of
confining the watercourse within its customary channel or restoring it thereto
where it has been diverted therefrom not more than three years by floods or
other natural causes, may apply for such leave to the circuit court of the
county wherein such mill, machine, manufactory, or engine stands, or is proposed
to be built.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-95; 1968, c. 659.