Chap. 221.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new sec
tion, numbered 527-a, authorizing the Virginia Conservation Commission te
require permits to be purchased by persons who hunt and trap in certain Stat
forests, to prescribe the form of such permits and the manner of issuance, anc
to impose certain restrictions and conditions upon hunting and trapping in the
State forests; requiring the clerks of certain courts to issue such permits; es
tablishing a special fund of the proceeds derived from the sale thereof, providins
for the expenditure of the said fund and making certain appropriations fo:
such purpose; authorizing the Virginia Conservation Commission to enter intc
certain agreements for game management in the said State forests; and pre.
scribing certain penalties. [SB 41

Approved March 16, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section num-
bered five hundred and twenty-seven-a, which new section shall read
as follows:

Section 527-a. Permits to Hunt and Trap in State Forests;
Special Fund Created and Appropriated.—(a) No person shall hunt
or trap in this State on any lands which are under the jurisdiction
and control of the Virginia Conservation Commission by virtue of
purchase, gift, lease or otherwise, and which are administered as
State forests, without first obtaining, in addition to such other licenses
and permits as are required by law, such special use permits as may
be required by the Virginia Conservation Commission pursuant to
the provisions of this section.

(b) The Virginia Conservation Commission is hereby authorized
and empowered to require any person who shall enter upon, occupy,
or use, for the purpose of hunting or trapping any of the lands de-
scribed in subsection (a) of this section to obtain a special use permit
or special use permits therefor. Permits to enter upon, occupy, or
use any of said lands for the purpose of hunting shall be issued for
such fee, not to exceed one dollar annually for each permit, as shall
be fixed by the said commission. Permits to enter upon, occupy, or
use any of said lands for the purpose of trapping may be issued in
combination with the hunting permits, or separately, at a fee not to
exceed one dollar annually for each such permit, to be fixed by the
said commission.

(c) Each such permit shall entitle the holder thereof to hunt
and trap, or to trap, as the case may be, in and upon such lands of the
said State forests as shall be determined by the Virginia Conserva-
tion Commission and designated on the permit, subject to all other
applicable provisions of law or regulations of the Commissioner of
Game and Inland Fisheries and to such further conditions and re-
strictions for safeguarding the State forests as may be imposed by
the said commission and indicated on the permit. For such purpose
the said commission is hereby further authorized and empowered to
mpose such restrictions and conditions upon hunting and trapping
n the said State forests, in addition to the other provisions of law
ipplicable to hunting and trapping on the lands of this State, as the
said commission may deem proper: but no such restriction or condi.
jon shall be effective as to any person to whom a permit 1s issued as
provided in this section unless such restriction or condition be written,
yrinted, stamped or otherwise indicated on the permit.

(d) The several clerks or other persons authorized to sell hunt-
ng and trapping permits of the circuit courts of the counties wherein
such State forests are located shall issue the said permits and collect
the fees charged therefor. Each permit shall bear a serial number
and shall be in such form as the Virginia Conservation Commission
shall prescribe. All necessary permits or permit blanks shall be fur-
nished to the said clerks or other person authorized to sell permits
by the said commission. For his services each such clerk or other
person aforementioned shall be entitled to receive ten cents for each
such permit issued by him. ,

(e) Each such clerk or other authorized person above mentioned
shall pay into the State treasury the gross amount received by him
from the sale of the said permits, as follows: (1) for July, August and
September, quarterly, not later than October fifth; (2) for October,
November and December, quarterly, not later than January fifth;
(3) for January, February and March, quarterly, not later than April
fifth; and (4) for April, May and June, quarterly, not later than July
fifth. ot
~- At the time of making each such remittance the clerk or other
authorized person shall make a report to the Virginia Conservation
Commission on forms prescribed and provided by the said commis-
sion, whereon he shall show the serial numbers and quantity of permit
forms received, sold, and on hand unsold, and the amount of gross
collections remitted for the quarter: A duplicate copy of the said
report shall be forwarded, together with the remittance, to the Comp-
troller. | -

(fy ‘All funds so paid into the State treasury shall be credited tc
the Virginia Conservation Commission and maintained in a special
account to be expended as hereinafter provided.

- (g) The funds so credited to the said special account shall be
expended annually, in the following order:

(1) One-fourth of the gross revenue so derived shall be paic
‘nto the treasuries of the several counties wherein such State forest:
are located proportionately according to the revenue derived fron
the sale of such special permits in each respective county, which shal
be credited. to the general fund of such county; |

(2) From the balance remaining. after providing for such pay
ments to the said counties, there shall be paid the costs of preparins
and issuing the said permits, including the clerks’ or other person
authorized to sell hunting and. trapping permits fees;

(3) The remainder may be expended by the Virginia Con
servation Commission for game and forest management in the sai
State forests. All funds expended by the Virginia Conservatio!
Commission in the development, management, and protection of th
game resources in the said State forests shall be in co-operation wit.

and under the direction of the Commission of Game and Inlan
Fisheries. |
(h) All moneys paid into the said special account are hereby
appropriated to the Virginia Conservation Commission for the pur-
poses hereinabove set forth. All disbursements therefrom shall be
made by the State Treasurer on warrants of the Comptroller issued
upon vouchers signed by the State Forester or by such other person
Or persons as may be designated for the purpose by the Virginia
Conservation Commission.

(i) Any person who shall hunt or trap on any of the lands de-
scribed in subsection (a) of this section in violation of any provision
of this section; or in violation of such restrictions and conditions as
may be imposed by the Virginia Conservation Commission pursuant
to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be pun-
ished accordingly.