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
Volume | 1895/1896 |
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Law Number | 790 |
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Chap. 790.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the prc
tection of deer in the counties of Shenandoah and Frederick, approved Fet
ruary 24, 1888, to apply only to the county of Shenandoah.
Approved March 4, 1896.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an ac
entitled an act for the protection of deer in the counties of Shenan
doab and Frederick, approved February twenty-fourth, eightee:
hundred and eighty-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to rea
as follows:
§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That i
shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill, chase, or wound an;
deer between the fifteenth day of December and the fifteenth day o
September of any year. ;
§ 2. No person shall hunt, chase, kill, or pursue any deer wit!
dogs at any time that this act is in force.
§ 3. Any person found with recently killed venison during th
time when killing of is prohibited shall be presumed to have violates
the provisions of this act, and the burden of proof shall be on hin
to show that the manner in which the same came into his possessio1
was not in violation of this act.
§ 4. Any dogs which are caught in the act of running deer durin;
the time this act is in force may be killed by any party.
§ 5. Or to kill or capture, or offer for sale or to buy any pheasant
(or ruffled grouee) or wild turkeys between the first day of January
and the first day of November of each year, or any woodcock betweer
the first day of February and the first day of July of each year, o
any Japanese, Mongolian, or ring-necked pheasant between the first
day of February and the first day of October of each year, or to kil
or capture any rabbits (or hares) between the first day of March and
the first day of November of each year.
§ 6. Any one violating either of these laws shall be fined for each
offence not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, and may be
imprisoned in jail for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days.
§ 7. It shall be unlawful at any time for any person to carry,
send, transport, or ship, dead or alive, game or game birds of any
kind to any point outside the county in which the same is killed,
and any one violating the provisions of this section shall be fined
not less than ten dollars for the first offence, and for each subse-
quent offence the fine shall be doubled; provided that for any stage
line, railroad, or express company receiving such game or game birds
for shipment or transportation the fine shall be fifty dollars. Upon
&@ conviction under this section one-half the fine shall go to the in-
former. Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the
shipment or transportation of rabbits (or hares).
§ 8. Any magistrate of the city or county wherein any offence
under this act is committed shal] have current jurisdiction with the
corporations or county court of all violations thereof.
§ 9. Nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with the
laws now in force in regard to the killing or capturing of birds and
animals not named or embraced in this act.
§ 10. This act shall apply only to Shenandoah county.
§ 11. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.