CHAP. 27.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 6 of an act en-
titled an act to prevent damage and injuries by dogs, and to provide
compensation of owners of stock so injured; to provide for licenses
for dogs and to provide penalties for violation thereof. Approved
March 20, 1918. [H B 54]

Approved September 5, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section six of an act entitled an act to prevent damage and in-
juries by dogs, and to provide compensation of owners of stock
so injured; to provide for licenses for dogs and to provide pen-
alties for violations thereof, approved March twentieth, nine-
teen hundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

_ 2, Every dog above six months of age shall be liable to a
license tax as follows, viz: on all male dogs and spayed females,
one dollar; on all unspayed females, three dollars; said tax to be
in lieu of all other taxes at present imposed by State and local
county laws, which license tax shall be paid to the treasurer of
the county, city or town wherein the owner of the dog or such
person as may have him under control may reside, or any per-
son may pay a kennel tax of ten dollars, which shall entitle him
to keep therein not more than twelve dogs belonging to himself,
or in training for others, or fifteen dollars, which shall entitle
him to keep therein as many dogs belonging to himself, or in
training for others, as he may desire; the treasurer of the coun-
ties and cities shall not receive more for handling the funds
arising from the taxes imposed by this act than they receive for
handling other county funds, nor shall the commissioners of the
revenue receive less than fifteen cents for listing each dog, but
neither the treasurer nor the commissioners of the revenue shall
receive compensation for their services in issuing license and
tags herein provided for, such kennel dogs to be at all times kept
confined, unless accompanied by the owner or his agent, or in
case of fox or deer hounds when in chase or returning home from
chase. Upon payment of such tax, the person paying same shall
be entitled to receive a receipt card therefor and a metal license
tag with the year for which the license is paid, the county or
city or town issuing same, and the serial number of the license
stamped thereon, which tag shall be a different shape for each
year, and to be of a design adopted by the commissioner of game
and inland fisheries, and used over the entire State during the
same year. When the tag is issued, the treasurer shall record
the name of the owner of the dog, with the number of the license
tag. Tags to be furnished by the board of supervisors and paid
for out of the funds derived from dog licenses and to be attached
to a substantial collar, to be furnished by the owner of the dog,
and worn at all times. If any such tag should be lost, the owner
of the dog shall pay to the treasurer twenty-five cents for a new
tag. It shall be the duty of the county, city or town game war-
dens, on the first day of July, or as soon thereafter as practi-
cable, to obtain from the treasurer of said county, city or town
in his county on which the license has not been paid, and the
warden shall immediately apply to the justice of the peace for a
warrant against the party or parties whose names have been
furnished by the treasurer, and if such party or parties be con-
victed, he or they shall pay a fine and costs, as herein provided,
and unless such fine and costs, as well as such tax, be forthwith
paid, such dog shall be killed by the game warden or the officer
serving said warrant.

Sec. 6. All moneys arising from dog license taxes shall be
kept in a separate fund by the treasurer and used for the pay-
ment of damages and fees unless herein otherwise provided. In
the event the same are not sufficient for the payment of all such
fees and damages, they shall be paid in the order the claims are
presented, and any persons whose claims are not paid in any one
year by reason of lack of money to the credit of the dog license
fund shall be paid out of the first money coming into that fund
after his claim is reached. Any funds remaining in the hands
of the treasurer, as shown by his report, to be made to the super-
visors or city or town councils at the beginning of each year,
unused for such purpose at the end of any year, shall be used
by any county, city or town for either the public schools or the
public roads, as the boards of supervisors may direct; provided,
that the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State
are hereby authorized and empowered to allow the game war-
dens of their respective counties, in addition to the compensation
now received by said game wardens, such amounts as the said
boards may deem proper, to be paid out of the dog license taxes,
as compensation for performing the duties required of them
under this act; provided further, the board of supervisors of
Fauquier county may pay for hawk scalps out of said fund and
‘may be used in the cities or towns for such purposes as the city
or town council or other governing body may direct.

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