Chap. 67.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4743 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to casting dead animals into a road, so as to make it unlawful to trans-
port a dead animal along a public road or street except in a closed container or
vehicle from which no odor can escape, and to prescribe penalties for violations
thereof. [H B 23]

Approved February 22, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-seven hundred and forty-three of the Code of Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: ,
Section 4743. If any person cast any dead animal into a road, or
having in custody any maimed, diseased, disabled or infirm animal,
leaves it to lie or be in a street, road or public place, he shall be fined
not exceeding twenty dollars; and if any person engaged in the regular
business of using or disposing of or rendering dead animals shall
transport any dead animal, other than those killed for human con-
sumption, along a public road or street otherwise than in a closed
container, or in a closed truck or other vehicle, from which odor
cannot escape, he shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars.