CHAPTER 73

An Act to amend and reenact § 10-76, as amended, of the Code of Vtr-
ginia, relating to pine seed trees.
[S 159]

Approved February 27, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 10-76, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 10-76. Pine trees to be left uncut for reseeding purposes.—Every
landowner who cuts, or any person who is responsible for cutting, or
actually cuts, or any person who procures another to cut, or any person
who owns the timber at the time of cutting and knowingly and wilfully
allows to be cut, for commercial purposes, timber from one acre or more
of land on any acre on which loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), shortleaf
pine (Pinus echinta), pond pine (Pinus serotina), or white pine (Pinus
strobus), singly or together, occur and constitute ten per cent or more
of the live trees on each acre or acres, shall, unless there is in effect
for such acre or acres a planting, cutting, or management plan as pro-
vided in § 10-83, reserve and leave uncut and uninjured not less than *
eight cone-bearing loblolly, shortleaf, pond or white pine trees fourteen
inches or larger in diameter on each acre thus cut and upon each acre
on which loblolly, shortleaf, pond or white pine, singly or together, occur
as aforesaid; provided that where there are not present * eight cone-
bearing loblolly, shortleaf, pond or white pine trees fourteen inches or
larger in diameter on any particular acre, there shall be left uncut and
uninjured in place of each cone-bearing loblolly, shortleaf, pond or
white pine trees of this required diameter class not present two such
cone-bearing pine trees of the largest diameter present less than fourteen
inches in diameter. Such pine trees shall be left uncut for the purpose
of reseeding the land and shall be healthy, windfirm, and of well developed
crowns, evidencing seed-bearing ability by the presence of cones in the
crowns.