Code of Virginia - Title 33.1 Highways, Bridges And Ferries - Section 33.1-178 Raising or lowering floodgates

§ 33.1-178. 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 Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, or his authorized agent, that this has not been done, or that the owner is unable to reach the spillway in order to do so, the Commissioner, or his authorized agent, may perform this duty.

(Code 1950, § 33-92; 1970, c. 322.)

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