An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
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Chap. 54.—AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 35 and 36, chapter
100 of the Code, and to repeal an act approved March 16th, 1874, in
regard to the protection of Fish in the waters of New river.
Approved January 19, 1875.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections thirty-five and thirty-six of chapter one hundred of
the Code of eighteen bundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 35. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to
cause the destruction of ahy fish in the waters of New river
or its tributaries, by reason of the erection of fish dams or
fish pots, or by the uso of any seines, dip-néts, stir-nets, or
set-nets, for the period of three years from the passage of
this act: provided, that the operation of this act shall not
embrace any portion of said river above the point where it
crosses for the last time the boundary line between the state
of North Carolina and Virginia, in Grayson county.
s 36. Any person violating this and the preceding section
shall pay the sum of ten dollars for each and every such
offence—the same to be recovered before a justice of the
peace with costs, and appropriated to the fund for the sup-
port of the county poor-house, and in addition, such person
or persons shall forfeit any such seine or net, and any such
dam or fish pot shall be leveled and destroyed, under the
direction of the justice, at the costs of the party violating the
same.
2. Be it further enacted by the general assembly, That the
act approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seven-
ty-four, entitled an act repealing so much of the act in force
December twenty-cighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
entitled an act to provide for the protection of fish in the
waters of New river and its tributaries, as applies td that
portion of New river above the point where the dividing
line between the counties of Carroll and Grayson crosses
said river, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.