CHAPTER 280

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 29-61 and 29-62 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to applications for and the issuance of hunting, trapping and
fishing licenses in certain cities.

[H 212]

Approved March 15, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 29-61 and 29-62 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 29-61. The clerks of the corporation courts of cities having a
population of not less than fourteen thousand nor more than seventeen
thousand according to the last preceding decennial census shall issue
State licenses and county licenses for those counties contiguous to their
respective cities, and the clerks of the circuit courts of counties, and such
agents as the Commission may otherwise designate, shall issue State
licenses and county licenses for their respective counties as provided for
in this title and shall date and sign the same.

29-62. Applications for county resident licenses shall be made in
the county wherein the applicant has been a bona fide resident six months
next preceding, or the county wherein the applicant is a legal voter, or the
county wherein an unnaturalized person owns real estate and in which he
has resided five years or more next preceding, or the county wherein a
commissioned or enlisted soldier, sailor or marine is located, or the county
wherein the school a student is attending is located or by residents of cities
of less than fifteen thousand population the county wherein such city is
wholly located, or the corporation court of any city authorized to tissue
licenses for any such county, provided, however, that the applicant for
such county license shall file with the clerk of the corporation court his
name and correct county address. Failure so to do will render said license
null and void.