Chap. 275.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2106 of the Code of Vir-
ginia as to penalty for failure to comply with section 2105 of the Code
of Virginia.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one hundred and six of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2106. Penalty for failure—Any person, firm or corporation failing
to comply with the provisions of the preceding section shall be fined one
dollar for each day’s failure; and the circuit or corporation court, after
reasonable notice, by rule or otherwise, to the parties or party interested,
and upon satisfactory proof of the failure, shall cause the fishway to be
constructed, or put in good repair, as the case may be, at the expense of
the owner of the dam or other obstruction: provided, however, that the
penalty provided by this section shall not be imposed in any case until
some make or kind of ladder shall be declared by the board of super-
visors of the county in which the dam or other obstruction is located to
be a suitable fish ladder.

2. An emergency existing in this case because there are many dams
in the State of Virginia not supplied with fish ladders because the own-
ers do not know and it cannot be agreed what is a suitable fish ladder,
this act shall be in force from its passage.