Chap. 210.—An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph first, subsection “b” of
paragraph second and paragraph fourth of section 3356 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to unlawful hunting and possession of game and other birds
and animals. [S B 58]

Approved March 14, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That para-
praph first, subsection “b” of paragraph second and paragraph
fourth of section thirty-three hundred and fifty-six of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

First. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, shoot at, kill
or capture any wild game bird or any wild game animal protected
by law in subsection “a” between one-half hour after sunset and
one-half hour before sunrise and subsection “b” between sunset
and one-half hour before sunrise; to possess any game bird or
animal protected by law during closed season or any other wild
bird at any time except as hereinafter provided; to shoot any game
on Sunday; to use reflectors or other lights or sneak boats or arti-
ficial islands‘in detecting or capturing game birds; to shoot at any
game with a gun larger than a ten-bore fired from the shoulder or
shoot more than one gun at a time or a battery of guns; to capture
or to set or use any nets, traps or other devices for capturing wild
game birds or nongame birds; to destroy the nests, eggs or young
of any wild game bird or nongame bird at any time; to track or
hunt deer or elk in the snow or to kill, injure, capture or molest
any deer while in the waters of any stream, lake or pond, or to kill,
take, injure or capture any wild deer or elk, at any time except a
deer or elk having horns visible above the hair; to bait wild tur-
keys to a blind or other place or track or hunt wild turkeys, pheas-
ants or grouse, partridge (or quail) or woodcock, in the snow; pro-
vided that nothing herein shall apply to the English sparrow, owl,
hawk, crow, blackbird, starlings, buzzards and eagles or jaybird or
affect in any manner the provisions of chapter four hundred and
seventy-five, acts nineteen hundred and twenty; chapter four hun-
dred and eighteen, acts nineteen hundred and twenty and chapter
two hundred and sixty-six, acts nineteen hundred and eighteen;
provided, further, that the chairman of the commission of game and
inland fisheries is hereby given authority to issue permits for the
capture of any wild game animal or wild game bird or to take the
eggs thereof, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe,
for propagating purposes at the State game farm or for restocking
depleted sections and State game sanctuaries. It shall be lawful tc
use a dog or dogs, when hunting game birds and game animals
during the open season therefor.

Subsection (b). It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt.
kill or capture any duck, goose, brant, coot, gallinule, Wilson snipe
(or jacksnipe) between January thirty-first and November first.
sora or other rail (except coot and gvallinule) between November
thirtieth and September first: greater and lesser Yellowlegs be-
tween November thirtieth and August sixteenth; woodcock be-
tween December thirty-first and November first; bobolinks, or reed
birds, between November fifteenth and August sixteenth; mourn-
ing dove between December fifteenth and September first. Should
the United States regulations concerning the shooting of the above-
named species of migratory birds be changed. the provisions in
this subsection shall be automatically changed to conform with the
United States regulations duly promulgated. Each species of
migratory bird legally taken may be possessed ten days after the
close of the open season therefor.

Fourth. When unlawful and lawful to sell—It shall be unlawful
for any person or persons, firm or corporation to at any time buy,
sell or offer to buy, sell, barter or exchange, or have in possession
at any time for the purpose of sale or barter or exchange (except
as provided in chapter two hundred and sixty-six acts nineteen
hundred and eighteen), the carcass or anv part of the carcass of
any wild game animal or mivratory or nonmigratory game or non-
game bird, or any live wild game animal or migratory or non-
migratory game or non-game bird protected by law, except the
plumage of a game bird legally killed during the open season there-
for; provided, that hares (or rabbits), squirrels and muskrats killed,
captured or trapped during the open season therefor may be sold.