CHAPTER 695

An Act to authorize and require game wardens to take samples of pol-
luted water under certain conditions; to provide for the chemical
analysis of such samples by the State Water Control Board; to pro-
vide for certain prosecutions and the admission in evidence of the
certificate of analysis and providing when the chemists may be
required to appear.

[H 817]

Approved April 7, 1954
' Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, § 1. Any game warden appointed under the provisions of Title 29
of the Code of Virginia may, and shall when requested by a member of
the governing body of a county, city or town, take samples of water
from any stream in this State when he has reason to believe that
such water may be polluted for any reason. Any game warden taking
any such sample shall take the same in a clean container, seal it forth-
with, and thereupon send it to the State Water Control Board, herein-
after referred to as board. At the time the warden takes such sample,
he shall enclose therewith a statement in reasonable detail showing the
time and place when and where the sample was taken in such manner as
will permit the place and time of taking to be identified; such statement
shall be signed by the warden taking the sample and forwarded with it.
The warden shall keep and sign the original of such statement.

§ 2. Upon the receipt of any such sample sent the board under § 1
of this act, the board shall have a chemical analysis thereof made by a
chemist employed by the board or retained especially for such purpose.
If the results of such analysis shows that such sample of water was pol-
luted, the board shall have made such further studies and analyses as
may be requisite to determine the nature and extent of such pollution
and the most effective measures for controlling the same.