CHAPTER 291

An Act to require certain licenses to hunt certain game in Grayson
County; to provide for collection and disposition of license fees; to
prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act; and
to repeal certain acts.

” (H 551)

Approved March 9, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: .

1. § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt bear or deer in the
county of Grayson without having first obtained a special stamp as herein
provided, the annual fee therefor being as follows: for residents of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, one dollar; for nonresidents, five dollars. The
stamp shall be adhesively affixed to the back of the current season’s hunt-
ing Neen issued such person who shall cancel the same with his initials
in ink.

§ 2. The money received from the sale of such special stamp shall
be paid to the county treasurer to the credit of a special fund, and the net
amount thereof, or so much as is necessary, shall be used for the payment
of damages to crops or livestock by deer or bear in the county, whenever
such damage amounts to ten dollars or more; except that the clerk of the
circuit court shall be allowed to retain a fee of ten cents for each such
special stamp sold. Such payments shall be limited to the net amount
accruing in the special fund from the sales of such stamps in the county
during the license year in which the damage occurred and any surplus
remaining at the end of such year shall remain in such fund and be used
for the conservation of wild life in the county under the direction of the
board of supervisors, and in cooperation with the Department of Game
and Inland Fisheries. Any person suffering such damage shall report the
same promptly to the board of supervisors of the county, whose duty it
shall be to investigate the same at once or appoint three disinterested per-
sons to appraise and report such damages to the board, which shall have
the right to approve or disapprove such report. The claim for damages
shall be filed in duplicate under oath on forms furnished by the clerk of
the county. If such report and claim be approved, the board of super-
visors shall forward such approved claim to the treasurer.

. The special stamps herein provided for shall be obtained from
the clerk of the circuit court of the county. Any person violating the pro-
visions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
punished accordingly.

2. Any acts or parts of acts imposing similar license requirements as
to the hunting of bear or deer are hereby repealed, insofar as they affect
the county of Grayson.