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Code of Virginia
Title 62.1. Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors
Chapter 7. Water-Power Development, Conservation of Hydroelectric Power Dams and Works
11/15/2024

§ 62.1-82. Control and regulation by State Corporation Commission; existing rights of riparian owners.

The control and regulation on the part of the Commonwealth of the development of the waters of the Commonwealth shall be paramount, and shall be exercised through the agency of the State Corporation Commission, sometimes in this chapter referred to as the Commission; provided, however, nothing contained in this chapter shall deprive any riparian owner of any right which he may have, under existing law, except by due and further process of law upon the exercise of eminent domain and upon the payment of just compensation for any such right.

Code 1950, § 62-70; 1968, c. 659.

The chapters of the acts of assembly referenced in the historical citation at the end of this section may not constitute a comprehensive list of such chapters and may exclude chapters whose provisions have expired.