CHAPTER 248

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
15.1-88, relating to deep water wells in certain counties and cities.

(H 287]
Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
15.1-33, as follows:

§ 15.1-33. No county having a population of more than seventeen
thousand but less than seventeen thousand two hundred or any county
having a population of more than thirty-one thousand three hundred but
less than thirty-one thousand four hundred or city having a population of
more than twelve thousand but less than thirteen thousand shall prior to
June 80, 1968, drill or cause to be drilled for its use, directly or indirectly,
any deep water well in such county or city without first obtaining the
consent of the governing body of the county or city in which such well is
to be drilled. For the purposes of this section, a deep water well shall be
one of three hundred fifty feet or more in depth. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to wells in existence or wells contracted for or
which are in the process of being constructed prior to March one, nine-
teen hundred sixty-six.