CHAPTER 306

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 45 a chapter
numbered 1.1, which chapter contains sections numbered 45-17.1
through 45-17.4, requiring a license to operate any commercial mine;
providing fees for such license; and providing penalties for violations
of the provisions of the chapter. CH 970]

Approved March 13, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by eduung i Title 45 a chapter
numbered 1.1, which chapter contains sections numbered 45-17.1 through
45-17.4 as follows:

§ 45-17.1. No person shall engage in the operation of any commercial
mine as defined in § 45-0.2 within this State on and after April 1, 1959,
without first obtaining a license so to do from the Division which license
shall be valid for a period of one year and shall not be transferable. Such
license shall be obtained within forty-five days of January 1, 1959, and
shall be renewed each year thereafter during such period. Any person who
desires to commence operation of any commercial mine after such forty-
five day period has expired shall procure such license for the remainder
of the year before operations are commenced.

A separate license shall be secured for each commercial mine operated
and shall be in such form as the Chief may prescribe. Such license shall be
posted in a conspicuous place near the main entrance of the mine.

§ 45-17.2. Each request for a license shall be submitted to the Divi-
sion accompanied by a post office money order or check drawn in favor of
the State Treasurer in the amount of five dollars.

§ 45-17.3. Upon the proper submission of the annual report of the
operator in accordance with § 45-7 and of the commercial mine map in
accordance with § 45-10 to the Division the license shall be issued. The
Chief may issue the license without the submission of such mine map if
in ae epiaion an extension of time for submitting such map should be
granted. .

§ 45-17.4. Any person operating a commercial mine within this State
without first obtaining a license as provided herein shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, in the discretion
of the court or jury trying the case. Each day any person operates any com-
aa mine without first obtaining such license shall constitute a separate
offense.