Chap. 336.—An ACT to enable the Virginia Conservation Commission to render
scientific forestry services to private timberland owners for a fee, and to render
forestry advice free of charge; and to appropriate funds to carry out pro-
visions of this act. fH B 208]

Approved March 27, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. Section 1. The Virginia Conservation Commission is hereby
authorized to designate, upon request, forest trees of private forest land
owners for sale or removal, by blazing or otherwise, and to measure or
estimate the volume of same under the terms and conditions hereinafter
provided.

Section 2. The administration of the provisions of this act shall
be under the direction of the State Forester. The State Forester, or his
authorized agent, upon receipt of a request from a forest land owner for
technical forestry assistance or service, may designate forest trees for
removal for lumber, veneer, poles, piling, pulpwood, cordwood, ties, or
other forest products, by blazing, spotting with paint, or otherwise desig-
nating in an approved manner; he may measure or estimate the com-
mercial volume contained in the trees designated; he may furnish the
forest land owner with a statement of the volume of the trees so desig-
nated and estimated, and he may offer general forestry advice concern-
ing the management of the land owner's forest. For such designating,
measuring or estimating services the land owner or his agent, upon pres-
entation of a statement, shall pay to the State Forester, within thirty
days of receipt of the statement, an amount not to exceed five per cent
(5%) of the sale price or fair market value of the stumpage so designated
and measured or estimated. However, for the purpose of further en-
couraging the use of approved scientific forestry principles on the private
forest lands of this State, and to permit explanation of the application
of said principles, the State Forester may, where he deems it advisable,
designate and measure or estimate without charge the trees of a forest
landowner on an area not in excess of ten acres.

Section 3. In order to provide funds to carry out the provisions
of this act, there is hereby appropriated to the Forestry division of the
State Conservation Commission, out of the general fund in the State
treasury, the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the first
year of the biennium and twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars
($22,800) for the second year of the biennium ; and provided further that
all moneys paid to the State Forester for services above described shall
be deposited into the State treasury to the credit of said Commission, to
be used in rendering additional similar scientific forestry services to the
landowners of this State.

2. This act shall become effective on July one, nineteen hundred
forty-six.