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transporting and filling land, other than federal lands. The phrase shall <br />not include: <br /> <br /> (1) Such minor land-disturbing activities as home gardens and <br /> 'i~divtdhal home"i~ndscaping, repairs and maintenance work. <br /> <br />~ .....~.2). Individual.serVice .conneCtions,. <br /> .(3) Construction~ tnetallation or maint~naReo of .. <br /> <br /> (3)-'-InstallationS- maintenance or repair of any underEround public <br /> utilitY_~tnes when such activity occurs on an existing hard-surfaced road, <br /> street or sidewalk, provided such land-disturbing activity is confined to <br /> the area of the road, street or sidewalk, which is hard surfaced. <br /> <br />::.,., (4) Septic tank lines or drainage fields unless included in an <br />~verall plan for land-disturbing activity relating to construction of the <br />building to be served by the septic tank system. <br /> <br /> ('5) Surface or'deep mining. <br /> <br /> (6) Exploration or drilling for oil and gas, including the well site, <br />roads, feeder lines, and off-site disposal areas. <br /> <br /> (7) Tilling, planting, or harvesting of agricultural, horticultural, <br />or forest crops or livestock feedlot operations; including engineering <br />operations as follows: construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check <br />dams, desilting basins, dikes, ponds not required to comply with the Dam <br />Safety Act, Chapter 8.1 (Sec. 62.1-115.1 et Iseq.), ditches, strip <br />cropping, lister furrowing, contour cultivating, contour furrowing, land <br />drainage and land irrigation. <br /> <br /> (8) Construction, Repair or rebuilding of the tracks, right-of-way, <br /> bridges, communication facilities, and other related structures and <br /> facilities of a railroad company. <br /> <br /> (9). Preparation for single-family residences separately built, unless <br /> in conjunction with multiple construction in subdivision development. <br /> <br /> (10) Disturbed land areas for commercial or noncommercial uses of less <br /> than' ten thousand (10,000) square feet in size. <br /> <br />"(11) Installation of fence and sign posts or telephone and electric <br />poles'and'other kinds ofposts or poles; <br /> <br /> (12) Emergency work to protect life, limb or property, and emergency <br />repairs; provided that if the land-disturbing activity would have required <br />an approved erosion and sediment controlplan, if the activity were not an <br />emergency, then the land area disturbed shall be shaped and stablized in <br />accordance with the requirement of the Building Official. <br /> <br /> Land-disturbing permit: A permit issued by the Building Official for <br />clearing, filling, excavating, grading or transporting, or any combination <br />thereof, on all lands except those specifically exempted by the provisions <br />of this chapter. <br /> <br /> <br />