59.1-106 - Sale of unclaimed timber, etc., found adrift; disposition of proceeds.
§ 59.1-106. Sale of unclaimed timber, etc., found adrift; disposition ofproceeds.
Any person, except the owner thereof, taking up and securing any sawlog,pile, hewn timber or square timber detached from any raft and found adrift oraground on any of the waters or streams mentioned in § 59.1-103, shallpromptly report such fact to the owner thereof, or shall lodge a listcontaining a description of the quantity, quality, and marks, if any, of suchtimber with a magistrate serving the jurisdiction where such timber was sofound and secured, which magistrate shall promptly advertise the same forfive consecutive days in a newspaper published in the City of Norfolk. Ifsuch timber shall not be claimed by the owner thereof within thirty daysafter such publication it shall be lawful for the magistrate to order thesale thereof at public auction by an officer after giving five days' noticeof the time, place, and terms of such sale by not less than six handbillsposted in the most public places in the vicinity where the same was found andwithin the county wherein the magistrate serves. Out of the proceeds of suchsale the magistrate, after paying the expenses of the advertisement andhandbills, together with all the other costs of such proceeding at law, shallpay to the person or persons who found and secured the timber ten cents foreach piece thereof so taken and secured, and the residue of such proceeds ofsale shall be paid into the state treasury for the benefit of theCommonwealth.
(Code 1950, § 59-203; 1968, c. 439; 2008, cc. 551, 691.)