An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1902/1903 |
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Law Number | 170 |
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Law Body
Chap. 170.—An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 2148 of the Code of Virginia.
as amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, and by previous acts, in
relation to the time for taking oysters, and to prohibit the use of patent tongs.
Approved April 24, 1903.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one hundred and forty -cight of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and one.
and by previous acts, in relation to the time for taking oysters, be fur-
ther amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:
§ 2148. Limitation as to time of taking oysters and in relation to pat-
ent tongs.—Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to take or
catch oysters from any of the natural ovster beds, rocks, and shoals, in
any of the waters of this Commonwealth, with tongs, or in any other
way, from the first day of April to the fifteenth day of September of each
year, except that in Broad bay, Longereek, Lickhorn bay, or in any of the
tributaries thereof, in the county of Princess Anne, the prohibited time
shall be all of the year, except the months of October and November, or
at any time to use or employ patent tongs for the purpose of taking or
catching ovsters or shells from the natural rocks, beds, or shoals of the
State. And if any person be found upon the natural rocks, beds or
shoals of this Commonwealth during the prohibited season, or during the
night time of the open season with “tongs, or other devices for taking or
catching oysters, the same shall be prima. facie evidence of the viola-
tion of this act by the person so found therein.
Any person violating the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined not Tees than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars for the first offense, and for any repetition thereof, shall
be confined in jail not less than ten davs nor more than six months.
This section shall not be construed as prohibiting the owner of planted
oysters from working on, or changing the location of said planted oysters,
or from shipping the same to market at any time at the option of the
owner.
2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
3. This act shall be in force on and after July first, nineteen hundred
and three.