Chap. 167.—An ACT to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of the
sunties of Alleghany and Highland, respectively, to fix the open and closed
-asons for hunting, with or without dogs, and trapping bear and foxes in each
ud county, and in any magisterial district thereof, and to further empower the
iid boards of supervisors to prescribe and enforce penalties, within certain
mits, for violations of the seasons so fixed. [H B 243]

Approved March 9, 1940

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:
ection 1. The boards of supervisors of the counties of Alleghany
dighland are hereby authorized and empowered to fix the open
losed seasons for the hunting and trapping of foxes and bear in
heir respective counties by ordinance duly adopted by the said
yoard, and to determine by such ordinance whether or not, and at
what times and under what conditions, the same may be hunted
with dogs. Any such ordinance may be made applicable to the
vhole of the said county or in any one or more magisterial districts
thereof, and separate and different ordinances and provisions may be
idopted for each such magisterial district, within the general limits
of the powers conferred by this act.

Section 2. The said board of supervisors shall have the further
power to prescribe penalties for violations of any ordinance adopted
by it pursuant to the provisions of section one of this act, which viola-
tions shall constitute misdemeanors and which penalties shall be by
way of fines not to exceed one hundred dollars for each offense.

Section 3. All provisions of general law relating to the hunting
and trapping of bear and foxes shall continue to apply in each said
county unless and until the powers conferred by section one of this
act shall have been exercised by its board of supervisors, but any
ordinance adopted pursuant to this act, if and when adopted, shall
supersede all provisions of general law inconsistent therewith.