Thursday, July 24, 2008
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HB1758: Obstructing or contaminating state waters; increases penalty therefor.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 62.1-194.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 62.1-194.1. Obstructing or contaminating state waters.
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 and
upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500
or by confinement in jail not more than twelve months or both such fine and
imprisonment. 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 county or corporation court of the cityof the locality
wherein any such violation occurs, whether there be a criminal conviction
therefor or not shall, upon a bill in equity complaint,
filed by the attorney for the Commonwealth of
such county 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.
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