Chap. 260.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3228 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, in relation to subrenting or assignment of oyster planting grounds.
[H B 190]

Approved March 19, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-two hundred and twenty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3228. If any person should subrent or assign his rights in
oyster planting ground it shall be only to a resident of this State, or
to a corporation authorized by law to occupy and hold oyster planting
ground, after notifying the inspector of his intention, and then the
subrenting or assigning shall be in writing, and said writing shall
describe accurately the ground subrented, or assigned, and be recorded
in the clerk’s office of the county as the original survey and plat were
recorded and under the same conditions. The subrenter, or assignee,
shall have all the rights and privileges of the original renter, for the
unexpired term of the original lease, unless he be a nonresident citizen
of the State, in which case any such assignment shall be void. This
section shall not be construed so as to allow a renter to subrent or
assign a portion of a plat of ground without first having same surveyed
and plotted as provided in section thirty-two hundred and twenty-five ;
provided, further, that any assignment under this section to a person,
partnership, or corporation, owning or operating, at the time of such
subrenting or assignment, three thousand acres of oyster ground, such
subrenting or assignment shall then be null and void.