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 | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 143 |
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Chap. 143.—An ACT to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying. selling,
or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys an native pheasants,
in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same in traps or
the destruction of the eggs of same in said county.
Approved January 25, 1898.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful to kill, capture, hunt, buy, sell, or offer for sale in the county
of Albemarle, any partridges (or quail) between the first day of January
and the first day of November of each year; and any wild turkeys
or native pheasants between the fifteenth day of J anuary and the first day
of November of each year, or at any time to take or capture any of the said
birds in traps or to take or destroy the eges of the same in said county.
2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be held to be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than five dol-
lars nor more than twenty dollars for each offence, or in the discretion
of the justice of the peace may be confined in the county jail not more
than fifteen days for each offence.
3. Possession of any of the above game at a time when it 1s made
unlawful to kill, capture, hunt, buy, sell or offer for sale the same, shall
be prima facie evidence of the violation of this act,
4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
5. This act shall be in force from its passage.