Chap. 139.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3361 of the Code of Virginia
in relation to exporting game. (H B 200

Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three hundred and sixty-one of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3361. When and how game may be exported; penalty;
who are residents; burden of proof.—It shall be unlawful, except as
hereinafter provided, to ship or transport, or to cause to be shipped or
transported, from this State, whether alive or dead, wild turkeys,
pheasants or grouse, partridges, quail, or other game birds, or any deer
or venison, killed or captured within this State, nor shall the same be
killed, captured, or possessed with intent to ship or transport from this
State.
Any person authorized to hunt under the laws of this State may,
during the open season, take with him out of the State, either in his
personal possession or as his baggage, on the same conveyance with
him, not in a closed package, but exposed to view, not exceeding fifty
wild water fowl, fifty quail or partridge, ten pheasants or grouse, three
wild turkeys, one deer, or not exceeding one hundred in the aggregate,
when killed or captured by himself; provided, the same shall be plainly
labelled or tagged with the name and address of such persons; and any
citizens of this State may, during the open season, ship or have trans-
ported from this State, as a gift, and not for market or sale, so stating
on the shipping tag, one deer during the season, and not exceeding three
wild turkeys, six pheasants, twelve wild water fowl, eighteen partridge
or quail; provided, that such game shall be shipped exposed to public
view and unconcealed, and each parcel or package shall be plainly label-
led or tagged with the name and address of the donor and of the donee,
and the number of each such game so shipped. This section shall not
apply to rabbits (or hares) or squirrels.

It shall be deemed a violation of this section for any person to deliver
any of the game herein mentioned to any common carrier or person for
shipment or transportation out of the State, or for any common carrier
or person to carry or transport or receive for shipment: or transportation
any such game in any other manner than is provided in this section.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent common car-
riers from carrying or transporting any of the game herein mentioned
in unbroken packages from beyond the confines of this State through
the same to some point in another State.

Any person or corporation violating any provisions of this section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine of fifty dollars
for each offense, or imprisoned in jail for not exceeding sixty days.

No person charged with an offense under this section shall, within
the meaning thereof, be deemed a resident of this State who shall not
have resided within the limits of the State six months next preceding
the time when the alleged offense was committed, unless he shall have,
bona fide, taken up his residence in this Commonwealth, and has his
bona fide domicile therein, and in any prosecution for such offense the
burden of proof as to residence shall be upon the defendant.