Chap. 24, An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of the Game, Inland
Fish, and Dog Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to license
to hunt, trap and fish. [H B 8]

Approved January 14, 1937

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two of the Game, Inland Fish, and Dog Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

Section 22. The residents of counties bordering a non-tidal stream
shall have the right to hunt, trap and fish when not otherwise prohibited
by law or regulation in said stream opposite the shore line of the county
for which such resident has a county license and the residents of coun-
ties bordering a tidal stream shall have such right to low water mark
or as far as the county limits of the county for which he has license
extends. The following persons shall be entitled to a county license
to hunt, trap or fish in the county of which they are resident, or of which
they are legal voters, or in which they are stationed or located, or to
a State resident license ;

(a) Any person born in the United States or who has been natural-
ized and who has been a bona fide resident of the county for six months
next preceding the date of application for license in said county;

(b) Any legal voter of the county wherein the license is applied for;

(c) Any unnaturalized person who owns real estate in the county
and who has actually resided therein not less than five years next pre-
ceding the date of the application for the license in said county;

(d) Any person commissioned or enlisted in the Umited States
army, navy or marines, while stationed or located in the county wherein
the license is applied for;

(e) Any student regularly enrolled im any bona fide preparatory
school, college or university in this State who presents a certificate of
enrollment for the current year to the clerk of the county wherein such
school, college or university is located;
(£) Residents of cities of less than fifteen thousand population ac-
cording to the last preceding United States census, the limits of which
are wholly within the county wherein the license is applied for.

All other persons who have resided in this State for six months or
more next preceding the date of the application shall be entitled to a
State resident license to hunt, trap or fish, and non-residents of the
State shall be required, except as otherwise provided, to obtain a non-
resident license.