CHAP. 290.--An ACT to require all owners, operators, proprietors, superintendents, or conductors of a sawmill or other manufacturing plant, and other persons who have dug wells or pits on certain premises after the passage of this act, to fill the same...

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be the duty of all owners, operators, proprietors, superintendents or conductors of any saw mill or other manufacturing plant, or any other person, who has, after the passage of this act, caused to be dug on his own or the land of another any well or pit for the use of such saw mill, plant or person, to fill such well or pit with earth or other suitable material so that the same shall not be dangerous to human beings, animals, or fowls, at the time of, or before such mill or plant shall be removed or such well or pit otherwise abandoned.

And it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of any such land whereon is located any such abandoned well, dug after the passage of this act, to see that the duty aforesaid, hereby imposed upon the persons aforesaid, is properly performed. And any person violating any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

This law shall not be enforced in any county in this State until adopted by the board of supervisors of said county.