Chap. 163.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 80 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to disposition of dog fund.

[H 240]
Approved March 8, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section eighty of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of
Virginia, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 80. Disposition of dog fund.—After paying the fifteen per
centum on gross collections to the State Treasurer as otherwise provided,
the remaining amount in the dog fund of the county or city shall first
be used to pay: treatment of persons for rabies, advertising notices.
freight and express or postage, and if the remainder is sufficient, all dam-
ages to livestock or poultry and if the governing body of the county so
desire it may make therefrom an allowance to the game warden for
services, and all allowances and payments heretofore made by the govern-
ing body of any county to game wardens and ex-officio game wardens
for services are hereby validated. In the event the remainder is not
sufficient to pay such damages, the claims shall be filed and paid in the
order of presentation out of the first available money coming into the
fund. Any funds in excess of two hundred fifty dollars remaining in
the hands of the treasurer on December thirty-first may on that date
be transferred into the general fund of the county or city, or at the dis-
cretion of the governing body of any county or city, any portion thereof
may be transferred into a special fund and used for the purpose of re-
plentishing or restocking quail or other game in such county or counties
adjoining such citv; provided that in the counties of Giles, Gravson.
Warwick and Wythe, the entire fund remaining in the hands of the
treasurer on December thirty-first shall be transferred by the governing
body into a special fund and, subject to the approval of the Commission
of Game and Inland Fisheries, shall be used for the purpose of replenish-
ing, restocking and protecting quail or other game and game fish in the
county; provided that in the county of Giles the governing body shall
transfer one-half of the entire fund remaining in the hands of the treas-
urer on December thirty-first of each year into a special fund to be used
for the purpose of replenishing or restocking and protection of quail
and other game and game fish in the county, and in the county of Essex
the governing body shall likewise transfer the sum of two hundred fifty
dollars, as above provided, for the same purpose of replenishing or re-
stocking and protection of quail and other game and game fish in the
county; provided that in each of the counties of Grayson, Warwick and
Wythe the special fund or any portion thereof not so expended at the
expiration of two years from the date of its transfer as such special
fund shall revert to the general fund of the county and in the discretion
of the board of supervisors apportioned as next herein provided. Pro-
vided further that, in the discretion of the board of supervisors or govern-
ing body of the respective counties, the fund remaining in such county
may be apportioned between the county and any incorporated town or
towns in said county in the proportion that the amount of the license
tax collected in the town or towns bears to the total dog license tax in
the county in which the town or towns are located, to be used as the
governing body of the town directs, except that in the county of Essex
no apportionment shall be made to the town of Tappahannock and that
in the county of Middlesex no apportionment shall be made to the town
of Urbanna.