CHAPTER 420

An Act to make it unlawful for any person to take or attempt to take deer
or elk between sunset and sunrise by the use of a spotlight or flash-
light; to provide the punishment for violations, and to make the dis-
play or flashing of a spotlight or flashlight from any vehicle between
sunset and sunrise by any person or persons then in possession of any
frets prima facie evidence of an unlawful attempt to take deer or
elk.

{H 453]
Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Any person who takes or attempts to take any deer or elk between
sunset and sunrise by use of a spotlight or flashlight shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of two hundred and fifty
dollars or by confinement in jail for not less than thirty days nor more
than sixty days, either or both. The display or flashing of a spotlight or
flashlight from any vehicle between sunset and sunrise by any person or
persons, then in possession of a firearm normally used in hunting deer or
elk, without good cause, shall raise a presumption of an attempt to take
deer or elk in violation of this act.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.