Chap. 35.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 167, as amended, of the Acts
of 1938, approved March 17, 1938, which made certain special provisions as to
certain kinds of dogs in certain named counties, imposed certain prohibitions
relative thereto, prescribed certain license fees, and imposed certain penalties,
so as to extend the territorial scope of the Act. {H 114]

Approved February 19, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter one hundred sixty-seven, as amended, of the Acts
of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-eight, approved
March seventeenth, nineteen hundred thirty-eight, be amended and re-
enacted, as follows:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to import into, or to
breed within, the counties of Nansemond, Rappahannock, Russell, South-
ampton, Tazewell, Culpeper or Nelson, any German or Belgian Shepherd
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 counties of Nanse-
mond, Rappahannock, Russell, Southampton, Tazewell, Culpeper or Nel-
son, all such dogs being deemed dangerous to the farming interest, shall
after January one, nineteen hundred 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: (1)
For a female, not unsexed, ten dullars; (2) For a 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 fur-
nish to the owner of the dog a metal license tag to be provided by the
governing body of the county, of such farm and design as it adopts, the
serial number of which tag shall be set out in the receipt.

In all other respects, the procuring of special dog licenses hereunder,
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 the county
shall be as prescribed by general law. !

Any person owning or keeping any such dog within the counties of
Nansemond, Rappahannock, Russell, Southampton, Tazewell, Culpeper
or Nelson without having paid the special license tax thereon and secured
a metal tag for it, as prescribed by this section, shall be required to forth-
with procure such special license for it, or, at his option, permit the game
warden to kill the dog, which the game warden shall forthwith do if the
license tax be not paid; and the game warden shall kill any such dog,
of unknown ownership, found running at large, on which the special
license has not been paid.

Section 2-a. The governing body of Caroline, Northumberland and
Pittsylvania counties may, by resolution approved by a majority of the
members thereof, impose a special county license on any of the kinds of
dogs mentioned in section one of this act, not to exceed the amounts
prescribed in section two for male and female dogs, such license to be
issued to the owners of such dogs by the county treasurer on such forms
as adopted and provided by it, upon the payment of the proper license
fees; and all such fees so collected by the treasurer shall be kept in a
special account and used for payment of damages to live stock and poul-
try by dogs. The provisions of the last clause of the preceding section
shall apply likewise to this section.

Section 3. Provided that nothing in this act shall apply to any dog
owned and used, or used, by a blind person as a guide dog.