Va. Code § 33.2-411

Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session through ch. 845

Section 33.2-411 - Raising or lowering floodgates

The owner or occupier of a dam shall raise or lower the floodgates on such dam when there is an impending flood in order to reduce the level of the water in the pond, and when it comes to the attention of the Commissioner of Highways that this has not been done, or that the owner is unable to reach the spillway in order to do so, the Commissioner of Highways may perform this duty.

Va. Code § 33.2-411

Code 1950, § 33-92; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-178; 2014, c. 805.

Added by Acts 2014 c. 805, § 1, eff. 10/1/2014.