Chap. 508.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
30-a requiring certain persons drilling wells for water, oil, or gas to supply
the State Geological Survey Division of the Virginia Conservation Commis-
sion with geological and other data, and to prohibit and punish violabons,

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Approved April 5, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section
numbered eight hundred thirty-a as follows:
Section 830-a. Geological and other data to be supplied in certain
cases ; punishment for failure—If any person, company or corporation
for any governmental, municipal, commercial, industrial, or institutional
use or purposes shall himself or by agent excavate by the process of
drilling any well for water, oil or gas, or make any exploratory excava-
tion for or deepen or redrill such a well he shall within thirty days after
beginning operation give written notice thereof to the State Geological
Survey Division of the Virginia Conservation Commission and shall
thereafter supply it with such information as it may from time to time
require with respect to depths attained, shows, yield, pressure, water
levels, drawdown and other technical or geological data. Such informa-
tion shall be given on blank forms furnished by the State Geological
Survey Division and shall be returned to it within thirty days after receipt
of the forms. All wells drilled for water for domestic or farm use, all
driven wells and all shallow wells not more than fifty feet in depth are ex-
empted from the operation of this act. Any person violating the provisions
of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
punished accordingly.