CHAPTER 650

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-148, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to exemptions from certain restrictions on the
taking of oysters below a certain size, and shells. tHE 602]

Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 28-1438, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows: ,

§ 28-143. So much of §§ 28-141 and 28-142 as prohibits the taking
and catching of oysters whose shells measure less than three inches from
hinge to mouth, shall not apply to James River above a line drawn from
Cooper’s Creek in the county of Isle of Wight, to a point at the south side
of the main channel in such river opposite Finch’s pier in the city of
Newport News, thence up such channel to the present lower corner of
Miles oyster-planting ground, thence to Massey’s house on the river bank
in the * city of Warwick, which shall be known as seed line; nor to Russ
Rock and Little Carter’s Rock, in the Rappahannock River, nor to the
eastern side of Accomack and Northampton Counties; but nothing in this
section shall exempt the culling of shells as provided in § 28-141.