Virginia Code — 28.2
Browse 387 sections in division 28.2 of the Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 28.2-100. Definitions
- § 28.2-101. Jurisdiction of Commission
- § 28.2-102. Commission membership; chairman; qualifications; terms; meetings
- § 28.2-103. General powers of Commission; promulgation of regulations
- § 28.2-104. Commissioner; general powers and duties
- § 28.2-104.01. Policies for consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth
- § 28.2-104.1. Living shorelines; development of general permit; guidance
- § 28.2-105. Legal representation for employees in criminal prosecution; compensation
- § 28.2-106. Virginia Marine Police; law-enforcement responsibilities; qualifications; oath
- § 28.2-106.1. Patrol and enforcement of federal safety zones and restricted areas
- § 28.2-106.2. Establishment, patrol, and enforcement of state water safety zones and restricted areas; penalty
- § 28.2-107. Commission to implement radio system
- § 28.2-108. Marine Patrols Fund continued
- § 28.2-108.1. Virginia Waterway Maintenance Fund continued
- § 28.2-108.2. Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program
- § 28.2-109. Definitions
- § 28.2-110. Filing requirements; penalty
- § 28.2-111. Adoption of guidelines and forms
- § 28.2-200. Definitions
- § 28.2-201. Authority of Commission to make regulations, establish licenses, and prepare fishery management plans; accept federal grants; enforcement; penalty for violation of regulation
- § 28.2-201.1. Commission to administer grants to individuals transferring oysters to a state-managed sanctuary; fund
- § 28.2-202. Commissioner; fishery powers
- § 28.2-203. Commission to prepare fishery management plans; standards
- § 28.2-203.1. Blue crab fishery management plan
- § 28.2-204. Authority to collect fisheries statistics
- § 28.2-204.1. Limited sale of gear licenses and permits; regulations
- § 28.2-205. Scientific collection permits; penalty
- § 28.2-206. Virginia Saltwater Sport Fishing Tournament
- § 28.2-207. Tournament Advisory Committee continued
- § 28.2-208. Marine Fishing Improvement Fund continued
- § 28.2-208.1. Commercial Fishing Advisory Board established
- § 28.2-208.2. Menhaden Management Advisory Committee established
- § 28.2-208.3. Fisheries Innovation for Sustainable Harvest Fund
- § 28.2-209. Publication of proposed regulations
- § 28.2-210. Adoption of emergency regulations
- § 28.2-211. Hearing on proposed regulations
- § 28.2-212. Adoption of regulations
- § 28.2-213. Distribution of new regulations
- § 28.2-214. Right of petition to Commission
- § 28.2-215. Judicial review of validity of regulations
- § 28.2-216. Hearings before Commission
- § 28.2-217. Procedure of hearing
- § 28.2-218. Finding, award, etc., of Commission
- § 28.2-219. Judicial review in contested cases
- § 28.2-220. Appeals to Court of Appeals
- § 28.2-221. Proof of posting of notices
- § 28.2-222. Districts
- § 28.2-223. Appointment of officers
- § 28.2-224. Collection of license fees
- § 28.2-225. Fishing license required; penalty
- § 28.2-226. Exemptions from licensing requirements
- § 28.2-226.1. Recreational gear license required
- § 28.2-226.2. Commission to establish requirements for commercial gear licenses used for recreational purposes
- § 28.2-227. Special nonresident harvester's license; fee and oath; revocation; penalty
- § 28.2-228. Licenses for purchase of fish, shellfish, or marine organisms from the catcher; fee
- § 28.2-228.1. Seafood landing licenses
- § 28.2-229. When licenses terminate; proration and refund not permitted
- § 28.2-230. Penalty for false statements or altering a fishing license; penalty
- § 28.2-231. Exhibition of license; display to officers; penalty
- § 28.2-232. Revocation of licenses
- § 28.2-233. License tags or identification generally
- § 28.2-234. License tags and identification numbers to be fastened; penalty
- § 28.2-235. Duty to apply for new tag in case of loss; penalty
- § 28.2-236. Seizure of unmarked devices
- § 28.2-237. Removal of abandoned pole or stake; revocation of licenses for failure to remove stakes
- § 28.2-238. Concealing name or number of vessel; penalty
- § 28.2-239. Exemptions from article
- § 28.2-240. Repealed
- § 28.2-241. Registration of commercial fishermen required; exemption; penalty
- § 28.2-242. Report of harvest required
- § 28.2-243. Commission to promulgate regulations
- § 28.2-244. Purchase of shellfish or finfish; penalty
- § 28.2-245. Fishery Resource Grant Fund established; purpose; Consortium to award grants
- § 28.2-246. Fishery Resource Grant Advisory Board established; membership; duties
- § 28.2-247. Graduate Marine Science Consortium to submit report
- § 28.2-300. License application to fish with certain nets
- § 28.2-301. License fee for fishing in tidal waters
- § 28.2-302. Commercial fishing pier; license fee; penalty
- § 28.2-302.1. Recreational license required
- § 28.2-302.1:1. Fisherman Identification Program
- § 28.2-302.2. Recreational license fee; cooperative program
- § 28.2-302.2:1. Special combined individual sportfishing licenses
- § 28.2-302.3. Virginia Saltwater Recreational Fishing Development Fund established
- § 28.2-302.4. Virginia Recreational Fishing Advisory Board established
- § 28.2-302.5. Exemptions to saltwater recreational fishing license
- § 28.2-302.6. Temporary license
- § 28.2-302.7. Recreational boat; reporting of catch
- § 28.2-302.7:1. Reissuance of licenses for recreational boats
- § 28.2-302.8. Headboat or charterboat; rental boats
- § 28.2-302.9. Commercial fishing pier
- § 28.2-302.10. Special lifetime saltwater recreational fishing license; permanently and totally disabled persons
- § 28.2-302.10:1. Lifetime saltwater recreational fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents
- § 28.2-303. Taking and sale of sturgeon prohibited; penalty
- § 28.2-304. Repealed
- § 28.2-305. Size of mesh and length and depth of certain nets; penalty
- § 28.2-306. Use of certain fishing devices in certain waters; penalty
- § 28.2-307. Length of fixed fishing device; gill nets; penalty
- § 28.2-308. Setting of gill nets in oceanfront; penalty
- § 28.2-309. Distance nets may extend across body of water or channel; prohibition; regulations; penalty
- § 28.2-310. Trotline prohibited on ocean side of Eastern Shore; penalty
- § 28.2-311. Chickahominy River in Charles City; penalty
- § 28.2-312. Rappahannock River and certain of its tributaries; penalty
- § 28.2-313. Killing fish by means of explosives, drugs, or poisons; possession; penalty
- § 28.2-314. Trawl nets and drag nets prohibited; exception; license fee; penalty
- § 28.2-315. Repealed
- § 28.2-316. Trawling boat not granted license for other fishing device; penalty
- § 28.2-317. Prima facie evidence of violation; penalty
- § 28.2-318. Exemption for certain trawling activity
- § 28.2-319. Forfeiture of fishing gear, etc
- § 28.2-400. Application for license for resident or nonresident to catch menhaden
- § 28.2-400.1. Criteria for qualifying for a limited entry purse seine menhaden bait license
- § 28.2-400.2. Repealed
- § 28.2-401. Service of process for nonresident individuals, foreign corporations, general and limited partnerships
- § 28.2-402. License fee to take menhaden with purse nets
- § 28.2-403. Action of Commissioner on such application; transfer of license of disabled vessel; delegation of authority; appeals
- § 28.2-404. Appeals from actions of Commissioner
- § 28.2-405. Carrying patent tongs, etc., while fishing for menhaden; penalty
- § 28.2-406. Reserved
- § 28.2-407. Forfeiture of fishing gear
- § 28.2-408. Food fish not to be taken, bought, or sold; percentage allowable; penalty
- § 28.2-409. Menhaden fishing prohibited in certain areas; exception
- § 28.2-410. Closed season for menhaden fishing; forbidden nets; penalty
- § 28.2-411. Repealed
- § 28.2-500. Residency and certain oyster licenses
- § 28.2-501. Application for license to take or catch oysters or clams
- § 28.2-502. License fees for taking oysters or clams in tidal waters
- § 28.2-503. License for taking clams with tongs
- § 28.2-504. License fee graduated; penalty
- § 28.2-505. Sale of shells to Commission
- § 28.2-506. Season for taking oysters from public rocks; penalty
- § 28.2-507. Opening and closing public rocks
- § 28.2-508. Prohibited area for patent tongs; penalty
- § 28.2-509. Maximum weight for patent tongs; teeth length; penalty
- § 28.2-510. Buying, selling, or possessing unculled oysters; penalty
- § 28.2-511. Culling oysters; penalty
- § 28.2-512. Interfering with oyster inspections; penalty
- § 28.2-513. Prima facie evidence of culling violation; defense
- § 28.2-514. Possession of shucked oysters; penalty
- § 28.2-515. Dredging or scraping on private ground; permit required
- § 28.2-516. Oyster dredging or oyster dredging equipment on boat; penalty
- § 28.2-517. Marking ground
- § 28.2-518. Dredging for oysters in James River; penalty
- § 28.2-519. Use of rakes or scrapes on ocean side of Eastern Shore; penalty
- § 28.2-520. Use of hydraulic dredges prohibited; exceptions; penalty
- § 28.2-521. Revocation of license or permit to dredge
- § 28.2-522. Prima facie evidence of violation
- § 28.2-523. Penalty
- § 28.2-524. Taking oysters or clams in certain areas; limitations
- § 28.2-525. Fishing in Chesapeake Bay immediately west of Tangier Island
- § 28.2-526. Oyster measures; standards; penalty
- § 28.2-527. Theft of oysters, clams, shells, etc.; penalty
- § 28.2-528. Revocation of licenses for theft of oysters
- § 28.2-529. Converting shells into lime; penalty
- § 28.2-530. Taking oysters or loading on vessel on Sunday or at night; penalty
- § 28.2-531. Taking clams on Sunday or at night; exception; penalty
- § 28.2-532. Protection of oysters and clams of Virginia; labeling; penalty
- § 28.2-533. Oysters on crab dredging boat; penalty
- § 28.2-534. Possession of oysters while taking clams; penalty
- § 28.2-535. Permit to buy or carry seed oysters from certain grounds; penalty
- § 28.2-536. Taking clams in certain areas; penalty
- § 28.2-537. Restriction on size of clams; penalty
- § 28.2-538. Record of oysters handled; penalty
- § 28.2-539. Repealed
- § 28.2-541. Oyster resource user fees
- § 28.2-542. Oyster Replenishment Fund
- § 28.2-543. Repealed
- § 28.2-545. Reserved
- § 28.2-546. Permit to carry oysters out of state
- § 28.2-547. Authority to inspect oysters when loaded on conveyance
- § 28.2-548. Duty to inspect
- § 28.2-549. Violations; recovery of oyster resource user fees; penalties
- § 28.2-550. Authority of Commissioner to make certain contracts; funds received to be paid into Oyster Replenishment Fund
- § 28.2-551. Surveys and reports as conclusive evidence
- § 28.2-551.1. Continuing or reestablishing historic Baylor Survey lines
- § 28.2-552. Resurvey on motion of Commission or on application of citizens
- § 28.2-553. Reestablishment of lines of Baylor survey; procedure; evidence of reestablished lines
- § 28.2-554. Sale of Baylor survey charts and plats
- § 28.2-555. Crossings of Baylor survey
- § 28.2-556. Erosion control devices within the Baylor survey
- § 28.2-557. Unlawful to threaten or hinder surveyor; rights of surveyor; penalty
- § 28.2-558. Placing permanent markers
- § 28.2-559. Removal of oysters planted by mistake
- § 28.2-560. Larceny of oysters and shells; penalty
- § 28.2-561. Removal of markers of planting grounds; penalty
- § 28.2-562. Maps to be filed; evidential value
- § 28.2-600. Riparian planting ground assignments; eligibility; fee
- § 28.2-601. Riparian assignments; entitlements; obligations
- § 28.2-602. Riparian assignments; special terms and conditions
- § 28.2-603. General oyster planting grounds
- § 28.2-603.1. Temporary enclosures on leased ground
- § 28.2-603.2. Commissioner to provide notice
- § 28.2-604. Eligible applicants
- § 28.2-605. Application for assignment
- § 28.2-606. Notice of application
- § 28.2-607. Survey and marking of ground
- § 28.2-608. Application, surveying, and recording fees
- § 28.2-609. Restrictions on assigned acreage and applications
- § 28.2-610. Restriction on acreage owned or operated
- § 28.2-611. Application for general planting ground in Chesapeake Bay; acreage allowed; annual rental
- § 28.2-612. Payment of annual rental; penalty for default
- § 28.2-613. Duration of lease
- § 28.2-614. Requiring lessee or transferor to have ground surveyed and plat recorded; canceling lease for failure of lessee to have survey
- § 28.2-615. Payment of costs for service, etc
- § 28.2-616. Possession gives no preference as to assignment
- § 28.2-617. Recordation of plat
- § 28.2-618. (Effective until July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing
- § 28.2-618. (Effective July 1, 2035) Commonwealth guarantees rights of renter subject to right of fishing
- § 28.2-619. When leases become vacant
- § 28.2-620. Delinquent ground
- § 28.2-621. Effect of proposal for navigation project
- § 28.2-622. Consolidation of lease
- § 28.2-623. Excusing rent payment on condemned oyster grounds in the Lynnhaven River and tributaries
- § 28.2-624. Public rocks, etc., not to be used or staked off; penalty
- § 28.2-625. Transfer or assignment
- § 28.2-626. Refund of rent paid under mistake
- § 28.2-627. Relief from rent
- § 28.2-627.1. Oyster Leasing, Conservation, and Repletion Programs Fund
- § 28.2-628. Condemnation of oyster bottoms and grounds
- § 28.2-629. Rights of owner to waters within lawful survey
- § 28.2-630. Rights of riparian owners to build bulkhead or wharf
- § 28.2-631. Grounds for clams
- § 28.2-632. Public clamming grounds
- § 28.2-633. Bathing grounds; assignment; rental
- § 28.2-634. Nonresidents; taking, planting oysters prohibited; penalty
- § 28.2-635. Residents not to be associated with nonresident
- § 28.2-636. Leasing of certain bottoms in Rappahannock River prohibited
- § 28.2-637. Repealed
- § 28.2-638. Authority of Governor to authorize dredging of channel in navigable waters
- § 28.2-639. Certain public oyster rocks in Rappahannock River
- § 28.2-640. Declaring certain grounds in Mobjack Bay public oyster rocks
- § 28.2-641. Declaring certain areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
- § 28.2-642. Declaring certain other areas in Hill's Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
- § 28.2-643. Declaring certain areas in Chesapeake Bay, Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
- § 28.2-644. Declaring certain areas near Hole in the Wall, in Mathews County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
- § 28.2-645. Declaring certain areas in Pocomoke Sound, Accomack County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
- § 28.2-646. Declaring certain areas in Piankatank River near Stove Point, Middlesex County, public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
- § 28.2-647. Declaring certain areas near the mouth of the Poquoson River, in York County, public oyster rocks, beds and shoals
- § 28.2-648. Declaring certain ground in Mobjack Bay, in Gloucester and Mathews Counties, to be public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
- § 28.2-649. Acts which remain in force
- § 28.2-650. Dredging clams in polluted areas for replanting in public clamming grounds
- § 28.2-700. Definitions
- § 28.2-701. Crab traps, crab pots and crab pounds; regulations; penalty
- § 28.2-702. Licenses to take crabs; shedding operations; amount of fee
- § 28.2-703. License for certain assistants not required
- § 28.2-704. Sale of crabbing licenses
- § 28.2-705. License restrictions; exemption; penalty
- § 28.2-706. Restrictions on crab scraping; penalty
- § 28.2-707. Restrictions on crab dredging; penalty
- § 28.2-708. Limitations on sizes of crabs to be taken; inspection of catch; exemption; penalty
- § 28.2-709. Closed season for taking crabs in certain area; penalty
- § 28.2-710. Unlawful to place crab, eel, or fish pots in certain channels; penalty
- § 28.2-711. Crab pots; unlawful activities; penalty
- § 28.2-712. Identification of crab pots and eel pots; penalty
- § 28.2-713. Limiting the taking of crabs by one boat in one day; penalty
- § 28.2-800. Definitions
- § 28.2-801. Authority to promulgate regulations; enforcement
- § 28.2-802. Powers of officers charged with enforcement; entry to establishment; seizure; destruction
- § 28.2-803. Examination, analysis and inspection
- § 28.2-804. Polluted ground; crustacea, finfish or shellfish
- § 28.2-805. Notice to cease activity
- § 28.2-806. State Health Commissioner to establish standards
- § 28.2-807. Condemnation of polluted growing area; procedure
- § 28.2-808. Periods of condemnation
- § 28.2-809. Emergency closing of ground
- § 28.2-810. Removal, transportation, etc., from polluted ground; penalty
- § 28.2-811. Permits for transporting, relaying or depurating; revocation
- § 28.2-812. Sealing motor vehicles used in transporting
- § 28.2-813. Maintenance of records
- § 28.2-814. Submission of reports
- § 28.2-815. Application for special permit
- § 28.2-816. Supervision of removal, relaying or depuration; seasons established
- § 28.2-817. Displaying identification when transporting shellfish
- § 28.2-818. Identification of relay areas
- § 28.2-819. Movement and unloading of shellfish from condemned area
- § 28.2-820. Harvesting, transporting, handling or transplanting of seed-stock shellfish
- § 28.2-821. Violations; penalty
- § 28.2-822. Suspension or revocation of licenses
- § 28.2-823. Certification of shellfish from outside the Commonwealth
- § 28.2-824. Common carriers
- § 28.2-825. Importing fish, shellfish or crustacea for introduction into waters of the Commonwealth; penalty
- § 28.2-826. Crassostrea ariakensis
- § 28.2-900. Arrest with or without warrant; larceny; violations of boating laws and Title 62.1
- § 28.2-901. Summons issued instead of being taken into custody; failure to appear
- § 28.2-902. Procedure after arrest and seizure
- § 28.2-903. Violations constitute misdemeanor
- § 28.2-903.1. Impeding lawful fishing in tidal waters; penalty
- § 28.2-904. Pursuit and detention across the Maryland-Virginia line
- § 28.2-905. Resistance to officer or authorized person, etc.; penalty
- § 28.2-906. Failure to perform duty; penalty
- § 28.2-907. Jurisdiction of courts
- § 28.2-1000. Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact
- § 28.2-1000.1. Repealed
- § 28.2-1000.2. Repealed
- § 28.2-1001. Potomac River Compact
- § 28.2-1002. Cooperation of agencies of Commonwealth
- § 28.2-1003. Authority to regulate dredging of soft shell clams
- § 28.2-1004. Authority to authorize and regulate experimental oyster hatchery program
- § 28.2-1005. Authority to regulate dredging of oysters
- § 28.2-1006. Lawfully harvested finfish and shellfish; possession, storage, marketing and disposal
- § 28.2-1007. (For effective date, see Acts 2007, c. 885, cl. 2) Authority to regulate leasing