Chap. 202.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to prohibit the hunting,
killing, chasing, snaring, or trapping, tracking in the snow, or chasing with
dogs, any elk in the counties of Bland, Craig, Giles, Montgomery, or Pulaski:
limiting the number to be killed during the open season, naming the open
season, providing for non-resident license and the penalties for violation

thereof. [S B 270]

Approved March 14, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to prohibit the hunting, killing, chasing, snaring, or trap-
ping, tracking in the snow, or chasing with dogs, any elk in the counties
of Bland, Craig, Giles, Montgomery or Pulaski; limiting the number
to be killed during the open season, naming the open season, providing
for non-resident license and the penalties for violation thereof, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. That bucks, with horns plainly visible above the hair, may be
killed on November fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth of each season,
but if any of the above mentioned davs fall on Sunday, then on the
eighteenth, in the following manner: With rifles only, and no smaller
bore may be used than a twenty-five-twenty (25-20), and nothing in
this section shall be construed to allow hunting or tracking them in the
snow or the running with dogs during the open season.

3. That only one elk may be killed during an open season by any
One person. ,

4. The possession of elk meat, skin, or other parts of an elk out of
season, Shall be taken as prima facie evidence of guilt under this act.

5. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt or kill elk at any
time, on any lands used as State or federal game sanctuaries.

6. Any non-resident of this State desiring to hunt elk in any of
the counties mentioned in this act, must, before beginning to hunt
therein, secure from the clerk of the county in which he wishes to
hunt, a certificate permitting him to hunt elk in the county. This cer-
tificate is in addition to the regular State non-resident hunters’ license,
and the fee charged for such certificate shall be ten dollars.

7. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than two hundred
and fifty dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail for not less than
sixty days nor more than six months; provided, however, that the
court or justice trying the case may remit the jail sentence upon
prompt payment of the fine and costs.

8. One-half of the fine assessed by a court against any violator of
this section shall be paid to the game warden or other officer making
the arrest.

9, All acts and parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.