2006 Code of Virginia § 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 justice of the peace living nearest to the place where suchtimber was so found and secured, which justice of the peace shall promptlyadvertise the same for five consecutive days in a newspaper published in theCity of Norfolk. If such timber shall not be claimed by the owner thereofwithin thirty days after such publication it shall be lawful for the justiceof the peace to order the sale thereof at public auction by an officer aftergiving five days' notice of the time, place, and terms of such sale by notless than six handbills posted in the most public places in the vicinitywhere the same was found and within the county wherein the justice of thepeace may reside. Out of the proceeds of such sale the justice of the peace,after paying the expenses of the advertisement and handbills, together withall the other costs of such proceeding at law, shall pay to the person orpersons who found and secured the timber ten cents for each piece thereof sotaken and secured, and the residue of such proceeds of sale shall be paidinto the state treasury for the benefit of the Commonwealth.

(Code 1950, 59-203; 1968, c. 439.)