CHAPTER 78

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-168 of the Code of 1950, as amended,
relating to the taking of game or fish during the closed season and
exceeding bag limits, so as to reenact it in two sections numbered
29-168 and 29-168.1 and to insert a cross reference. rH 189]

Approved February 19, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-163 of the Code of 1950, as amended, be amended and
eae in the form of two sections numbered 29-163 and 29-163.1, as
ollows:

§ 29-1638. Taking game or fish during closed season or exceeding
bag limit—Any person taking any other game or any fish during the
closed season, or who wilfully exceeds the bag limit for other game or
fish, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two
hundred fifty dollars.

§ 29-163.1. Assessment of value of game or fish unlawfully taken.—
The trial justice, or court, upon convicting any person of a violation of * *
§ 29-162 or § 29-168 involving the unlawful killing of any animal, or bird,
or the exceeding of a bag limit as to animals, or birds or fish, or the taking
of the same during the closed season, shall, in addition to the imposition
of the punishment hereinbefore prescribed, ascertain the approximate
replacement value of such animals, birds or fish and shall assess such
value against the person so convicted, which assessment shall] be paid by
the person so convicted within the time prescribed in the judgment of the
trial justice or court, not exceeding sixty days, and the collecting officer
shall pay such moneys representing the approximate replacement values
aforesaid into the State treasury whereupon the same shall be placed to
the credit of the game protection fund.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.