Chap. 235.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 3205-a, to provide how and when oysters may be taken from the
Potomac River by citizens of Virginia or Maryland; to provide for licensing
dredges used in taking such oysters; to prescribe penalties for violations; to
repeal Section 3206 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which relates to ‘the
same matters, and to provide when this act and such repeal shall become ef-
fective; and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent wie act.

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Approved March 25, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1: That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section
numbered thirty-two hundred five-a, as follows:

Section 3205-a. Taking oysters from the Potomac River with
dredges.—(a) It shall be lawful for any citizen of the State of Virginia
or the State of Maryland to take marketable oysters from the Potomac
River with dredges operated by power or by hand or by any winding
apparatus, using boats propelled by any means; provided that no such
citizen shall so take any such oysters from the Potomac River unless
and until he shall have first obtained a license for each such boat to be
so used, from the proper official of the state of which he is a resident,
nor during the time any license so obtained is suspended. The fee for
each such license shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00), and each such license
shall expire on March thirty-first each year.

(b) Marketable oysters may be so taken under any such license
only during the hours between sunrise and sunset on days other than
Sundays, and only on and from the first day of October to and including
the thirty-first day of March of the following year.

(c) <Any boat licensed under this act shall not be more than nine
net tons and shall not have on it more than three persons, nor more than
one set of winders, nor more than one culling board, nor more than one
dredge, and such dredge shall not measure more than fifty inches at its
widest part, nor weigh more than seventy-five pounds.

(d) Any person violating any provision of this section shall be
punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hun-
dred dollars for each offense, and in addition to the fine the license of the
boat on which such violation was commited may be suspended for not
less than three days nor more than six months during the period between
October first of one year and March thirty-first of the next following
year, in the discretion of the court.

(e) Upon the taking effect in the State of Maryland of the pro-
visions of this section, the Governor of Virginia shall issue his proclama-
tion declaring the provisions of this act to be effective.

2. Section thirty-two hundred six of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, is hereby repealed, provided that such repeal shall not become
effective until this act is declared by the Governor of Virginia to be
effective, as above provided.

3. All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the
provisions of this act, are hereby repealed to the extent of such incon-
sistencies.