Chap. 32. An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to penalties. [H B 23]

Approved January 14, 1937

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-seven of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of
Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 47. Penalty for violation—-Any person violating any of
the provisions of the hunting or trapping or inland fish laws shall be
deemed guilty of a misdeameanor and upon conviction shall, unless
specific penalty is otherwise provided, pay a fine of not less than
five nor more than fifty dollars and may be imprisoned in jail not
exceeding thirty days, either or both.

Any person killing a deer or elk west of the Blue Ridge Mountains
which does not have horns visible above the hair shall be fined twenty-
five dollars for each such deer and fifty dollars for each such elk
and an additional sum of fifty dollars for each such deer and fifty
dollars for each such elk if he fails to deliver the same immediately
to the game warden in the county where killed, whereupon it shall be
confiscated; and any person killing any such deer or elk east of the
Blue Ridge Mountains shall be fined ten dollars for each such deer
and twenty-five dollars for each such elk and an additional sum of
ten dollars for each such deer and twenty-five dollars for each such
elk if he fails to deliver the same immediately to the game warden
in the county where killed, whereupon it shall be confiscated; any
person exceeding the provisions as to bag limit shall pay a fine of not
less than ten dollars for each turkey, fifty dollars for each deer or
elk, and five dollars for each other species of bird or animal and each
bass or trout so taken; any person who shall offer for sale, sell, offer
to purchase, or purchase any wild bird or wild animal or any part
thereof or any bass or trout except as herein provided shall pay a
fine of not less than ten dollars for each turkey, twenty-five dollars
for each deer, and five dollars for each other species of wild bird
or wild animal or bass or trout and may be imprisoned in jail thirty
days, either or both; provided that for the second offense of unlawfully
selling game or game fish the jail sentence shall be mandatory.

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