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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 45.1 MINES AND MINING.
Chapter 15.1 Geothermal Energy (45.1-179.1 thru 45.1-179.11)
45.1-179.4 Ownership


VA Code § 45.1-179.4 (2001 through Reg Session) What's This?

45.1-179.4. Ownership.

Ownership rights to geothermal resources shall be in the owner of the surface property underlain by the geothermal resources unless such rights have been otherwise explicitly reserved or conveyed. Nothing in this section shall divest the people or the Commonwealth of any rights, title, or interest they may have in geothermal resources.

(1981, c. 506.)

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