CHAPTER 588

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-209, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
‘ginia, relating to disposition of dog funds, so as to include certain
counties in certain provisions thereof.

[H 629]

Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-209 as amended of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

: § 29-209. After paying 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 for 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 desires it may make therefrom an
allowance to the game warden for services, and all allowances and pay-
ments 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.

In the county of Orange, the governing body may employ, and pay
from the dog fund, a person or persons to investigate claims made for
payment under this section.

Should there not be a sum sufficient in the dog fund of the county of
Augusta or of the county of Albemarle to defray all costs in such county,
including the payment of claims as provided in § 29-202, then the gov-
erning body of such county may appropriate a sufficient amount from the
general fund of such county to provide payment of such costs and claims.

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 dis-
cretion 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 re-
plenishing 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 Commission, 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 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 pur-
pose 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 ex-
pended 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 governing body be 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 pro-
portion 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 UWrbanna.

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.