CHAPTER 750

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section
numbered 28.1-178.2, to require crabbers to display license number
on float or stake attached to crab pot. rH 638]

Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section
numbered 28.1-173.2, as follows:

§ 28.1-173.2. Identification of crab pots.—Any person, corporation
or association owning or using a crab pot or pots, for whom a license is
prescribed in this title, shall display and maintain his or its current
license number, issued by the Marine Resources Commission, on the float
or stake attached to each such crab pot, in a legible and visible manner
and in figures of not less than one inch in height. The identification of the
owner of such crab pot by virtue of the license number above described
shall not give rise to any liability on its owner for its location so long as
the crab pot is placed in the waters of this state in compliance with the
laws thereof.

2. This act shall be in force on and after January one, nineteen hundred
sixty-nine.