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. 121.—An ACT to establish a closed season for menhaden fishing, to
prescribe the size of the mesh to be used in said fishing, and to provide
a penalty for the violation of this act. (H. B. 170.)
Approved March 17, 1914.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to take
or catch in the waters of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or waters
within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia, men-
haden fish to be manufactured into oil, fish scrap or manure, be-
tween the first day of December and the last Monday in May
of each year.
2. That from and after the first day of September, in the
year nineteen hundred and fifteen, it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to use, in the waters of the Common-
wealth of Virginia, or waters within the jurisdiction of the Com-
monwealth of Virginia, for the purpose of taking or catching
menhaden fish to be manufactured into oil, fish scrap or manure,
any purse net or other net having, when manufactured, made or
knit, a mesh less than two inches.
3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the pro-
visions of this act shall be deemed. guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less
than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for
each offense.
4. It being deemed expedient that the provisions of this law
making a closed season for menhaden fishing shall apply to the
coming season, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall
take effect from its passage.