Chap. 61.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 44 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to the sale of game, and hides and skins.
[H B 146]

Approved February 24, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-four of the Game, Inland Tish and Dog Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 44. Sale of game and furbearing animals and birds.—
When taken in accordance with the provisions of law or regulation,
bear, muskrat, opossum, rabbits, raccoon and squirrels may be bought
and sold during the open hunting season only, but the hides, furs or
pelts of furbearing animals legally taken and possessed may be sold
at any time. The commission is hereby empowered to permit the sale
of Mongolian and [English ring-necked pheasants raised in captivity
for breeding or table use under such regulations as it may prescribe.
The violation of any such regulation shall be a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars.