62.1-83 - Dams across waters of Commonwealth.
§ 62.1-83. Dams across waters of Commonwealth.
No person, firm, association or corporation, private or municipal, proposingto construct or reconstruct any dam across or in the waters of theCommonwealth, as defined in § 62.1-81, or a dam in any rivers or streamswithin the Commonwealth when such dam is for the purpose of generatinghydroelectric energy for use or sale in public service, shall begin theconstruction or reconstruction of any such dam unless and until theprovisions of this chapter shall have been complied with, and every such damshall in every respect be subject to the provision of this chapter and suchother general laws of the Commonwealth as may be applicable thereto. Norshall any dam constructed or reconstructed after July 1, 1932, in any waters,rivers or streams within the Commonwealth, without a license under thischapter, be utilized at any time for the purpose of generating hydroelectricenergy for use or sale, directly or indirectly, in public service, unless anduntil licensed or permitted so to do by order of the State CorporationCommission, after hearing, and finding that the public interest will bethereby promoted or will not be detrimentally affected.
(Code 1950, § 62-71; 1968, c. 659.)