Chap. 84.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3228 of the Code of Vir-
ginia in relation of subrenting or assignment of oyster planting grounds.
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Approved March 1, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-two hundred and twenty-eight of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3228. Subrenting or assignment.—If any person should
subrent or assign his rights,in oyster-planting ground it shall be only
to a resident of this State, or to a corporation authorized by law to
occupy and hold oyster-planting ground, after notifying the inspector
of his intention, and then the subrenting or assigning shall be in writ-
ing, and said writing shall describe accurately the ground subrented,
or assigned, and be recorded in the clerk’s office of the county as the
original survey and plat were recorded and under the same conditions.
The subrenter, or assignee, shall have all the rights and privileges of
the original renter, for the unexpired term of the original lease, unless
he be a nonresident citizen of the State, in which case any such assign-
ment shall be void. This section shall not be construed so as to allow
a renter to subrent or assign a portion of a plat of ground without first
having same surveyed and plotted as provided in section thirty- two
hundred and twenty-five.