Chap. 290.—An ACT to require all owners, operators, proprietors, superin-
tendents, or conductors of a sawmill or other manufacturing plant, and
other persons who have dug wells or pits on certain premises after the
passage of this act, to fill the same before their abandonment; and also to
require the owners of such premises to see that such wells or pits have been

properly filled. [H B 109]
Approved March 20, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it
shall be the duty of all owners, operators, proprietors, superintendents
or conductors of any saw mill or other manufacturing plant, or any
other person, who has, after the passage of this act, caused to
be dug on his own or the land of another any well or pit for the use
of such saw mill, plant or person, to fill such well or pit with earth
or other suitable material so that the same shall not be dangerous
to human beings, animals, or fowls, at the time of, or before such
mill or plant shall be removed or such well or pit otherwise aban-
doned.

And it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of any such
land whereon is located any such abandoned well, dug after the
passage of this act, to see that the duty aforesaid, hereby imposed
upon the persons aforesaid, is properly performed. And any person
violating any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding five hun-
dred dollars.

This law shall not be enforced in any county in this State until
adopted by the board of supervisors of said county.