Chap. 294.—An ACT to authorize the governing body of the county of Craig
to enforce a special license fee on the privilege of hunting certain wild
to provide for the collection and use of such fees and to prescribe penalties
for violations of the provisions of this act. H 518]

Approved March 16, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt bear
or deer in the county of Craig without first having obtained a
special stamp as herein provided, the fee therefor being one dollar
annually. The stamp shall be adhesively affixed to the back of the
current season’s hunting license issued such person who shall
cancel the same with his initials in ink.

Section 2. The money received from the sale of such special
stamp shall be paid to the county treasurer to the credit of a special
fund, and the net amount thereof, or so much as is necessary, shall
be used for the payment of damages to crops or livestock by deer
or bear in the county of Craig. Such payments shall be limited to the
net amount accruing in the special fund from the sales of such
special stamps in such county during the license year in which the
damage occurred and any surplus remaining at the end of such year
shall be covered into the general fund of the county. Any person
suffering such damages shall report the same promptly to the
game warden of the county, whose duty it shall be to investigate
the same at once. The claim for damages shall be filed in duplicate
under oath on forms furnished by the clerk of the county. If the
claimant and game warden agree as to the amount of damage the
game warden shall approve the claim and forward it to the treas-
urer. If no such agreement is reached between them the claim
shall be submitted to the arbitration of three persons in the custom-
ary manner and the award of the arbitrators shall be final and
binding.

Section 3. The special stamps herein provided for shall be
obtained from the clerk of the circuit court of the county. Any
person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction punished accordingly.

Section 4. This act shall not take effect except and until it
shall have been adopted and made effective by the governing
body of the county.