CHAPTER 478

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-126,as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to publication of proposed regulation or change in the regu-
lations concerning hunting, fishing and trapping, and the evidentiary
nature of such publication.

[H 400]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-126, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 29-126. (a) The full text of any proposed regulation or change in
the regulations * shall be published not less than fifteen nor more than
thirty days before the same may be acted upon and shall name the time and
place that the matters mentioned therein will be taken up, at which time any
interested citizen shall be heard. Such publication, if the proposed regulation
or change in the regulations be of local application, shall be made in a
newspaper published in the county, or, if there be none such, in a news-
paper in the adjoining county or section or in such other manner as may be
convenient. However, such publication, if the proposed regulation or change
in the regulations be of State-wide application, shall be made in a news-
paper in every county and city in which a newspaper is published. Also, a
copy of such proposed regulation or change in the regulations, being of
either local application or State-wide application, shall be filed in the office
of the Division of Statutory Research and Drafting, where it shall be
subject to inspection during office hours by any person. Such filing must
not be less than fifteen nor more than thirty days prior to the day on which
the public hearing on such proposed regulation or change in the regula-
tions is to be held. All regulations or changes in the regulations published
in accordance with this paragraph as amended are hereby validated.

(b) Prima facie evidence of any such regulation may be given in all
courts and proceedings by the production of a certified copy of such regu-
lation or regulations, which certification shall be made by the Executive
Director of the Commission or his deputy.