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. 203.—An ACT to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this
Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of
vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on
residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this
act.
Approved May 5, 1903.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person not a resident of this State to catch blue
fish in any of the waters of this Commonwealth; and it shall be un-
lawful for any resident of this State to employ any vessel owned by
a non-resident for any such fishing. .
2, Any non-resident of this State violating the provisions of this
act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than
one thousand dollars. Any non-resident so engaged shall be deemed
guilty of a separate offense, and be subject to a separate penalty, for
each boat employed by him in such fishing.
3. Any resident of this State who shall employ a vessel owned by
a non-resident for the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Com-
monwealth shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than
one hundred dollars. Any such resident so employing vessels owned
by non-residents shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each
boat so employed by him. The provisions of this act shall not, how-
ever, be construed to apply in the case of any resident of this State
who has taken out a license to fish with a purse net under section two
thousand and eighty-six of the Code of Virginia.
4. It shall be the duty of any resident of this State who desires to en-
gage in the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth
to obtain a license therefor from the ovster inspector of the county
in which he may reside, for which said license the said resident shall
pay to the said oyster inspector two dollars and fifty cents per annum,
to be paid into the treasury of the State of Virginia, and a fee of twenty-
five cents to the said ovster inspector.
5. It shall be the duty of the ovster inspectors of this State to en-
force the provisions of this act, and for such purpose the powers of a
conservator of the peace are hereby conferred upon them: and jurisdic-
tion is hereby conferred upon the justices of the peace of this State to
determine all causes arising under this act, subject to the right of ap-
peal to the court of the county having jurisdiction.
6. This act shall be in force frem and after June first. nineteen
hundred and three.