CHAPTER 50

AN ACT to repre a license to hunt certain wild animals in the county
of Tazewell and to provide for collection and disposition of the license
fees and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of
this Act.

{H 11)

Approved February 16, 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 Tazewell without first having obtained a special stamp as
herein provided, the fee therefor being one dollar annually. The stamp
shall be adhesively affixed to the back of the current season’s hunting
arenRe issued such person who shall cancel the same with his initials
in in

§ 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. 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. Any person suffering
such damage shall report the same promptly to the game warden of the
county, whose duty it shall be to investigate the same at once. The claim
for damages shall be filed in duplicate under oath on forms furnished by
the clerk of the county. If the claimant and game warden agree as to the
amount of damage the game warden shall approve the claim and forward
it to the treasurer. If no such agreement is reached between them the
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claim shall be submitted to the arbitration of three persons in the
pualgnoary manner and the award of the arbitrators shall be final and
inding. ;

§ 8. The special stamp herein provided for shall be obtained from
the clerk of the circuit court of the county. Any person violating the
provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction punished accordingly. ; ;

2. Any Acts or parts of Acts imposing similar license requirements
as to hunting bear and deer are hereby repealed insofar as they affect
the county of Tazewell.