Chap. 319.—An ACT to prohibit, upon certain conditions, any person or per-
sons from cutting or removing timber from lands designated by the State
Highway Commissioner for the Blue Ridge Parkway and prescribing penal-
ties for violations of this act, and conferring jurisdiction upon courts to
enjoin violations and attempted violations of this act. [H B 482]

Approved March 29, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:

Section 1. When the State Highway Commissioner shall have
designated lands or any interest therein to be included in the Blue
Ridge Parkway, and shall have filed with the clerk of the court
of the county wherein the lands or the major portion thereof are
located a description of such lands and property which are necessary
and requisite for such parkway, and pay into court or to the clerk
thereof for the benefit of the landowner a sum in accordance with
section ten of chapter four hundred and three of the Acts of the
General Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, approved
March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and acts
amendatory thereof, no person shall cut or remove any timber from
such lands pending the institution and final determination of condemna-
tion proceedings for the acquisition of such lands or any interest therein.

Section 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished accordingly; and the proper court shall have jurisdiction to
enjoin any violation or attempted violation of any of the provisions
of this act.