                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OBSTRUCTING OR CONTAMINATING STATE WATERS (§ 62.1-194.1)

A. Except as otherwise permitted by law, it shall be unlawful for any person to
dump, place or put, or cause to be dumped, placed or put into, upon the banks of
or into the channels of any state waters any object or substance, noxious or
otherwise, which may reasonably be expected to endanger, obstruct, impede,
contaminate or substantially impair the lawful use or enjoyment of such waters
and their environs by others. Any person who violates any provision of this law
shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Each day that any of said materials or
substances so dumped, placed or put, or caused to be dumped, placed or put into,
upon the banks of or into the channels of, said streams shall constitute a
separate offense and be punished as such.

B. In addition to the foregoing penalties for violation of this law, the judge
of the circuit court of the locality wherein any such violation occurs, whether
there be a criminal conviction therefor or not shall, upon a complaint filed by
the attorney of such locality or by any person whose property is damaged or
whose property is threatened with damage from any such violation, award an
injunction enjoining any violation of this law by any person found by the court
in such suit to have violated this law or causing the same to be violated, when
made a party defendant to such suit.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 659; 2007, c. 26.