An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Law Body
Chap. 290.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, in relation to hunting, trapping or fishing on
privately owned lands in certain counties and sections of the State. [H B 267]
Approved March 26, 1936
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-nine of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 49. Consent of landowner required to hunt, trap or fish.—
Any person who shall go upon the private lands, waters, ponds, boats
or blinds of another to hunt, trap or fish without the consent of the
owner or other person having the legal right to grant the same shall
be deemed guilty of a trespass against said owner. The above shall
not apply to bona fide fox hunters and deer hunters where the chase
begins on other lands or to uninclosed mountain lands not used for
cultivation, except in the counties of Giles, Craig, Bland, Bath, Alle-
ghany and Highland and in the mountains in the western part of
Rockingham county, and in any county having a population of more
than fourteen thousand and less than twenty thousand inhabitants,
which adjoins a county within the geographical bounds of which is
located a city having a population of not less than sixty thousand
nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, all according to
the last United States census. On written request of the owner or
agent, a game warden or other officer shall arrest and prosecute the
offender for such trespass. If any person, after being warned not
to do so by the owner or his agent, again goes upon the property of
another for hunting, trapping or fishing, he shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars or sentenced to not more than thirty days in jail,
either, or both.