CHAPTER 25

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-169 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to trespass on certain lands in certain counties.
[H 169]

Approved February 19, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-169 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 29-169. No person shall be deemed guilty of trespass hereunder
upon uninclosed mountain lands not used for cultivation, except in the
counties of * Craig, Bath, Alleghany, Botetourt and Highland and in the
mountains in the western part of Rochingham County, and in any county
having a population of more than fourteen thousand and less than twenty
thousand inhabitants, which adjoins a county within the geographical
bounds of which is located a city having a population of not less than
sixty thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, all
according to the last United States census; provided that §§ 29-165 to
29-167 shall apply to any person who goes upon uninclosed mountain land
of another, in that part of the county of Giles which lies on the western
side of New River, to trap, or to hunt for any game other than elk.