Chap. 175.—An ACT for the protection of elk in this State, to regulate the
killing, injuring, destruction and capturing of same. [S B 164]

Approved March 15, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person to hunt for, pursue, shoot at, take, kill,
wound, or attempt to take, kill or wound any wild elk in this State,
except from the fifteenth day of December to the thirty-first day of
December, both dates inclusive of each year, or to kill in any one year
more than one elk; provided that upon receipt of complaint at the
office of the department of game and inland fisheries from the owner
or lessee of any cultivated land in this State that elk are damaging
crops, or stock, the commissioner of game and inland fisheries shall
immediately make an investigation of such complaint, and if it 1s
shown that elk are damaging crops, or stock, a permit may be issued
to such owner or lessee, or other person to kill elk, and said permit
shall designate the time and manner of killing elk, and impose any
other restriction which may be deemed proper by the commissioner
of game and inland fisheries. The carcass of any elk killed under such
permit shall become the property of the department of game and
inland fisheries and may be removed and disposed of as the commis-
sioner shall direct. Provided nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to limit the power of the board of supervisors of any county
to shorten or cease such season, and provided further that it shall be
unlawful to kill elk on a federal forest reserve at any time.

(2) Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and_upon conviction, shall be fined
not more than one hundred dollars. ,

(3) All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.