CHAPTER 229

An Act to amend and reenact § 62-69 of the Code of Virginia, defining
“waters of the State’ so as to include certain other waters.

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Approved March 5, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 62-69 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 62-69. The term “waters of the State” as used in this chapter
shall mean: (a) Any stream or that portion of any stream in this
State which prior to June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two
has been declared navigable by any unrepealed statute of this State, or
(b) any stream or that portion of any stream in this State, the bed of
which is owned by the Commonwealth, or (c) those parts of streams or
other bodies of water in this State which.either in their natural or
improved condition, notwithstanding interruptions between the navigable
parts of such streams or waters by falls, shallows, or rapids, compelling
land carriage, are used or suitable for use for the transportation of
persons or property in interstate or foreign commerce, including therein
all such interrupting falls, shallows or rapids, and also any stream or
part thereof in this State other than those above mentioned in this
subdivision in which the construction of any dam or works as authorized
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by this chapter would affect the interests of interstate or foreign com-
merce, or (d) that portion of any river or stream flowing between the
high-water mark on the Virginia shore and the low-water mark when
such lati-aaser mark constitutes the boundary line between Virginia and
another state.