Chap. 166.—An ACT to amend.and re-enact Section 81 of the Game, Inland Fish
_ and: Dog Code of. Wigan "tn relation to penalties for violations. [H B 207]

Approved March 17, 1938

1. Be it anactid By the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec:
tion eighty-one of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code ot Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so ‘as to read as ‘follows: ,

Section 81. Any person who shall make a false statement in order
to secure a dog license to which he is not. entitled, shall be fined not
less. than five dollars:nor more than one hundred dollars. Any. person
convicted of failure. to: pay the. license tax prior to. February: first of
any year, or as otherwise provided in this chapter, on any dog owned
by him, shall be fined not less than the amount of the license tax
required by law to be paid on such dog, nor more than ten dollars,
and be required to obtain proper license forthwith, and unless the
fine and license tax is immediately paid, the trial court shall order the
dog killed by the game warden or some other officer, but the killing
of such dog shall not relieve its owner of the payment of said fine and
the license tax already due; and if a dog be found running and roam-
ing at large at any time of the year in violation of the provisions of
section sixty-six and sixty-seven hereof its owner shall pay a fine of
not less than two dollars and fifty cents for the first offense and five
dollars for each offense thereafter, and, if it is a kennel dog, the
license may be revoked if the law appears to the trial court to have
been violated by reason of carelessness or negligence on the part of
the owner, who shall thereupon be required to secure individual license
on each dog. Any person who presents a false claim or receive any
money on a false claim under the provisions of section seventy-four
shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in
jail not exceeding three months, or both, and any other violation
of this chapter, for which specific penalty is not provided, shall be
a misdemeanor.