Chap. 240.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘An Act to prohibit the
importation into, or breeding within, the counties of Rappahannock, Russell and
Culpeper, any German or Belgian Shepherd, or any other dog having one-fourth
or more of the blood of either of them; to require persons now owning any such
dog within said county to procure from the county treasurer a special license
therefor; to prescribe the tax on such license; and to prescribe penalties for
violations of this act.’’, approved March 17, 1938, so as to include Caroline,
Southampton and Tazewell counties within the provisions of the act.

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Approved March 27, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled ‘‘An Act to prohibit the importation into, or breeding
within, the counties of Rappahannock, Russell and Culpeper, any
German or Belgian Shepherd, or any other dog having one-fourth or
more of the blood of either of them; to require persons now owning
any such dog within said county to procure from the county treasurer
a special license therefor; to prescribe the tax on such license; and to
prescribe penalties for violations of this act.”, approved March seven-
teenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to import into,
or to breed within, the counties of Rappahannock, Russell, Caroline,
Southampton, Tazewell and Culpeper, any German or Belgian Shep-
herd or any other dog having one-fourth or more of the blood of
either of them, without obtaining the license hereinafter provided for.

Section 2. Each and every person owning any such dog of the
breed, or blood mentioned in section one of this act, within the coun-
ties of Rappahannock, Russell, Caroline, Southampton, Tazewell
and Culpeper, all such dogs being deemed dangerous to the farming
interest, shall after January the first, nineteen hundred and thirty-
nine, procure from the county treasurer a special license for such
dog to be in lieu of all other licenses on such dogs, the tax on which
special licenses shall be as follows:

(a) For a female, not unsexed, ten dollars.

(b) Fora male or an unsexed female, five dollars.

Upon the application for any such special license and the payment
of the amount of the tax thereon, as fixed by this section, the treasurer
shall issue and deliver his receipt therefor, setting out therein the
date of payment, the year for which paid, and the sex of the dog,
and shall furnish to the owner of the dog a metal license tag to be
provided by the board of supervisors of the county, of such form and
design as the board may adopt, the serial number of which tag shall
be set out in said receipt.

In all other respects, the procuring of special dog licenses here-
under, and the disposition of the money received therefor, shall be in
accordance with general law; and the license on all other kinds of
dogs in said county shall be as prescribed by general law.

Any person owning or keeping any such dog within the counties
of Rappahannock, Russell, Caroline, Southampton, Tazewell and
Culpeper without having paid the special license tax thereon and
secured a metal tag for such dog, as prescribed by this section, shall
be required to forthwith procure such special license for said dog, or,
at his option, permit the game warden to kill the dog, which the
game warden shall forthwith do if such license be not paid; and the
game warden shall kill any such dog, of unknown ownership, found
running at large, on which such special license has not been paid.
Section 3. Provided however, that nothing in this act shall apply
to any dog owned and used, or used, by a blind person as a guide dog.