Chap. 20.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 80, as amended, of the Game,
Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to the disposition of funds
accruing from license taxes on dogs. [H B 79]

Approved February 18, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section eighty, as amended, of the Game, Inland Fish and
Dog Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:
i ! iti After paving 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 damages 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 governing 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 presenta-
tion out of the first available money coming into the fund. Any funds
m 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 discretion of the govern-
ing body of any county or city, any portion thereof may be transferred
into a special fund and used for the purpose of replenishing or restocking
quail or other game in such county or counties adjoining such city; pro-
vided that in the counties of Giles, 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 replenishing, 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 treasurer 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 restocking and protection of quail and other game and
game fish in the county; provided that in each of the counties of War-
wick 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 govern-
ing body of the town directs, except that in the county of Essex no ap-
portionment 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.

Any funds heretofore set aside in the county of Grayson for the
purpose of replenishing, restocking and protecting quail or other game
and gaine fish in the county may, by order of the governing body of the
county, be transferred to the general fund of the county.