CHAPTER 203

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-209 of the Code of 1950,
relating to disposition of dog fund so as to make certain
changes applicable to certain counties.

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Approved March 14, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 29-209 of the Code of 1950 be amended and re-
enacted as follows: |

§ 29-209. Disposition of dog fund.—After paying the fif-
teen 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 for treatment of
persons for rabies, advertising notices, freight and express or
postage, and if the remainder is sufficient, all damages to live-
stock 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 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 discretion 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 replenishing or restocking
quail or other game in such county or counties adjoining such
city ; provided, that in the counties of Giles, Warwick and Wythe,
the entire fund remaining in the hands of the treasurer on De-
cember thirty-first shall be transferred by the governing body
into a special fund and, subject to the approval of the Commis-
sion, 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 * 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 pro-
vided, 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 Warwick and Wythe the
special fund or any portion thereof not so expended at the expi-
ration 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 governing body apportioned as next herein
provided.

In the discretion of the governing body of the respective
counties, the fund remaining in such county may be apportioned
between the county and any incorporated town or towns in such
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 appor-
tionment 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 game fish in the county may, by order of the
governing body of the county, be transferred to the general fund
of the county.