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
Law Body
Chap. 209.—An ACT for the protection of fish in Roanoke county.
Approved February 12, 1804.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it
shall be unlawful for any person to catch or destroy, or to take any
fish in or from any of the waters of any stream in the county of
Roanoke by means of any seine or net, or trap of any kind, or by any
other means whatsoever otherwise than by angling with a hook and
line, for a period of six years from the passage of this act: provided
that none of the provisions of this act shall hinder or prohibit the
commissioners of fisheries or their agents from catching or taking
fish from any of the waters of said county at such times and by such
means as may seem proper to them: and provided, further, that
hothing in this act shall be understood to forbid the use of a minnow
net in taking small fish to be used for bait in angling.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or capture mountain
trout (salmo fontinalis) in any of the waters of said county, between
the fifteenth day of September and the first day of April of each
year, by auy process or means whatsoever, nor at any other time,
except by angling with hook and line. Nor shall it be lawful to kill
or capture any river bass (commonly called black bass or black
perch) in said county, between the fifteenth day of May and the first
day of July of each year, nor at any other time, except by angling
with hook and Hine; nor shall it be lawful to shoot or spear, or
catch with drag-hooks any species of fish in the waters of said county
at any time.
3. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession
during the time in which the taking of the same is forbidden in the
preceding section, any fish therein forbidden to be taken, or to buy
or sell, or to make any use of such fish within said forbidden period,
under the penalties of this act; and said possession, sale or use shall
be deemed prima facie evidence of its violation.
4. It shall not be lawful for any person or corporation to use fish
berries, lime, giant powder or dynamite, or any other explosive ar-
ticle, in the waters of said county for the destruction of fish; and any
use of the same in said waters shall be deemed prima facie evidence
of the violation of said law.
5. Any person or corporation offending against the preceding sec-
tions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof shall he fined in the sum of twenty dollars for
each offence, one-half of which shall go to the informer; and shall
be imprisoned until such fine is paid, but not exceeding thirty days;
and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of said county to prosecute the
offending party promptly and vigorously, and in every case of will-
ful failure to perform this duty, he shall,on complaint by any person
to the county judge, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than
twenty dollars. In addition to the penalty above specified, the
offending party shall forfeit all boats, nets or other illegal contriv-
ances, pay all costs of suits and the charges incident to the capture
of said illegal contrivances.
6. It shall be unlawful for any person to molest or damage any fish
eges or young fish in the boxes or troughs of the fish commisssioners,
or their agents, or any private individual engaged in the artificial
breeding of fish, or injure the boxes, troughs, dams or ponds, or other
apparatus of said commissioners, agents or individuals, under the
penalties of the fifth section of this act.
7. It shall be the duty of the county judge of said county to give
this act in charge to every grand jury, whose duty it shall be to
present every infraction thereof, and the commonwealth’s attorney
for said county shall diligently prosecute every such violation of
this act.
8. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
9. This act shall be in force from its passage.