CHAPTER 342

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 62-48, as amended, and 62-44 of the Code
of Virginia, so as to make it unlawful to pollute or make certain other
uses of the water supply of counties. [Ht 39]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 62-43, as amended, and 62-44 of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 62-48. It shall be unlawful, except as hereinafter provided, for
any person to defile or render impure, turbid or offensive the water used
for the supply of any county, city or town of this State, or the sources or
streams used for furnishing such supply, or to endanger the purity thereof
by the following means, or any of them, to-wit: By washing or bathing
therein, or by casting into any spring, well, pond, lake or reservoir from
which such supply is drawn, or into any stream so used or the tributary
thereof above the point where such supply is taken out of such stream
or is impounded for the purposes of such supply, or into any canal,
aqueduct, or other channel or receptacle for water connected with any
works for furnishing a public water supply any offal, dead fish, or carcass
of any animal, or any human or animal filth or other foul or waste animal
matter, or any waste vegetable or mineral substance, or the refuse of any
mine, manufactory or manufacturing process, or by discharging or per-
mitting to flow into any such source, spring, well, reservoir, pond, stream,
or the tributary thereof, canal, aqueduct, or other receptacle for water
the contents of any sewer, privy, stable, or barnyard, or the impure
drainage of any mine, any crude or refined petroleum, chemicals, or any
foul, noxious, or offensive drainage whatsoever, or by constructing or
maintaining any privy vault or cesspool, or by storing manure or other
soluble fertilizer of an offensive character, or by disposing of the carcass
of any animal, or any foul, noxious, or putrescible substance, whether
solid or fluid, and whether the same be buried or not, within two hundred
feet of any watercourse, canal, pond, or lake aforesaid, which is liable to
contamination by the washing thereof or percolation therefrom; but
nothing in this section contained shall be construed to authorize the pol-
lution of any of the waters in this State in any manner now contrary to
law, provided that this section shall not apply to any discharge into any
State waters of sewage, industrial waste or other waste under a certificate
issued by. the. State Water Control Board. Any person knowingly or
wilfully violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be punished for each offense by a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both, at the
discretion of the court. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed
as to prevent the washing of ore or minerals in any of the streams or
waters of this Commonwealth other than such as may be used for the
water supply of any city or town.

62-44. It shall be unlawful for any person to boat, fish, hunt, gun
or skate, in, on or over the waters of any lake, pond or reservoir used as,
or in connection with, the public water supply of any city in this Common-
wealth, having by the last United States census a population of more than
ten thousand inhabitants, or of any county, without the consent in writing
of the city, county, or the water supply company, owning such lake, pond
or reservoir, or entitled to use the waters of the same in connection with
the water supply of any such city or county. .

_ _ Provided, however, that no person shall be deprived of any fishing
rights he may have heretofore acquired in connection with any lake, p
or reservoir used in connection with the water supply of any such county.
Any person violating the terms of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not
less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprison-
iment nn jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both, at the discretion of
e court.