CHAPTER 350

An Act to amend and reenact § 1, as amended, of Chapter 286 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1984, approved March 27, 1984, to further amend said
chapter by adding thereto sections numbered 2 and 8, relating to the
shooting and gigging of certain fish in the counties of Scott and Rus-
sell, and to repeal Chapter 190 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, ap-
proved March 11, 1948, relating to shooting certain fish in certain
waters in Scott County.

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Approved March 17, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

i. That § 1, as amended, of Chapter 236 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934,
ipproved March 27, 1934, be amended and reenacted, and that said chapter
ye further amended by adding thereto §§ 2 and 8, as follows:

§ 1. It shall be unlawful for any person * to shoot any fish in the
vaters of Clinch River in the county of Russell, but it shall be lawful to
rig for any fish not classed as game fish in * the waters of Clinch River and
ts tributaries in the counties of Russell and Scott in the daytime, or at
1ight with lights, at any time except during the closed season as pre-
cribed by law; anything in any other act, to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 2. It shall be lawful for any resident of this State, who has a cur-
rent license to fish, to take by means of shooting with a rifle, suckers,
red-horse and carp in the shoals of the waters of Clinch River, within the
limits of Scott County, except within two hundred yards of the Speers
Ferry dam, and in the waters of the South fork of Holston River in
Washington County, during daylight hours, from April fifteenth to May
thirty-one, both inclusive, of any year, provided that the bag limit for such
fish, during any such open season, shall not exceed twenty in any one day.

Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than
ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

§ 8. All laws, and all regulations of the Commission of Game and
Inland Fisheries, in conflict with the preceding section are repealed to the
extent of such conflict.

2. That Chapter 190 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, approved March
11, 1948, is repealed.
3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.