Forestry Laws of Virginia 



(Through Reg. Sess., 1914.) 



PART I. ADMINISTRATION 



(This division comprises the provisions of law, if any, defining the 

 general executive and administrative powers and duties of the reg- 

 ularly constituted State forestry officials, also certain miscellaneous 

 forestry provisions. For specific provisions concerning administra- 

 tive duties of these or other State officers in connection with forest 

 fires, forest taxation or State and municipal forests and nurseries, see 

 Parts II, III, and IV, respectively.) 



SECTION 1, CHAPTER 195, LAWS 1914. 



Office of State Forester Geological Commission, personnel. Be 



it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there be, and 

 is hereby, created the office of State forester, which shall be under 

 the direction and control of the State geological commission, com- 

 posed of the governor (who shall be ex-officio chairman of said com- 

 mission), the president of the University of Virginia, the president 

 of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the superintendent of the Vir- 

 ginia Military Institute, and one citizen from the State at large who 

 shall be appointed by the governor for a period of four years. 



SECTION 2. 



Forester, appointment; qualifications. The State forester shall be 

 appointed by said commission, and he shall be a technically trained 

 forester, and shall have both a practical and theoretical knowledge 

 of forestry. 



SECTION 3. 



Bond. The State forester, before entering upon the performance of 

 the duties of his office, shall execute bond to the Commonwealth 

 with surety or sureties worth at the time not less than twenty thou- 

 sand dollars, to be approved by the governor and filed in the office 

 of the secretary of State, conditioned for the faithful performance 

 of the duties .of his office, upon which, for any breach thereof, action 

 may be instituted from time to time and recovery had to the extent 

 of the damage sustained by the Commonwealth or others. Said 

 bond shall be examined and the sureties approved by the governor 

 once in each year, and he may at any time, when he deems the 

 bond insufficient, require the execution of a new bond or additional 

 sureties on the old one. 



SECTION 4. 



Forestry work of Geological Commission. Said commission shall 

 observe, keep in view, and, so far as it can, ascertain the best 

 methods of reforesting cut-over, and denuded lands, foresting waste 

 lands, preventing the destruction of forests by fire, the administering 



