CHAP. 17.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 129, Extra
Session 1887, for the protection of terrapins.

Approved December 19, 1991.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section sixty of an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section sixty of chapter one hundred and one of
the code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved
March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty, as amended
by an act approved May second, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows :

§ 60. If any person after the first day of May and be-
fore the fifteenth day of August of any year, shall take
terrapins, or take or disturb terrapin eggs in the waters of
the counties of Accomac, Northampton, Northumberland,
Westmoreland, Lancaster, Richmond, Essex, and Isle of
Wight, or shall have terrapins in his possession, or shall
buy, or offer them for sale in said counties, he shall for-
feit two hundred dollars and be confined in the county
jail not exceeding thirty days. And if any person, after
the first day of May and before the fifteenth day of August
of any year, shall take terrapins with a seine, net or weir,
in the counties aforesaid, he shall forfeit his boats, seines,
and nets, and pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars
and be confined in the county jail not less than thirty days.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. 3