CHAPTER 525
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
18.1-74.1, authorizing the governing bodies of counties, cities and
towns to require covers on certain wells and to prescribe punishment
or violations.
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Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: __

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
18.1-74.1 as follows:

§ 18.1-74.1. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 18.1-74, the gov-
erning body of any county, city or town may adopt ordinances requiring
persons owning or occupying any land within such county, city or town
on which there is a well having a diameter greater than six inches and
which is more than ten feet deep to keep the same covered in such a
manner as not to be dangerous to human beings, animals or fowls.

Any such ordinance may specify and require reasonable minimum
standards for the construction, installation and maintenance of such
covers, including the manner in which any concrete used in connection
therewith shall be reinforced, and may prescribe punishment for viola-
tions not inconsistent with general law.