Chap. 181.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an Act entitled “An act
to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of the counties of Alleghany
and Highland, respectively, to fix the open and closed seasons for hunting, with

' or without dogs, and trapping bear and foxes in each said county, and in any
magisterial district thereof, and to further empower the said boards of super-
visors to prescribe and enforce penalties, within certain limits, for violations of
the seasons so fixed.”, approved March 9, 1940, so as to include Botetourt
county within the provisions of the act. [H B 304]

Approved March 11, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled “An Act to authorize and empower the boards of
supervisors of the counties of Alleghany and Highland, respectively, to
fix the open and closed season for hunting, with or without dogs, and
trapping bear and foxes in each said county, and in any magisterial
district thereof, and to further empower the said boards of supervisors to
prescribe and enforce penalties, within certain limits, for violations of the
seasons so fixed.”, approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and forty,
be amended and re-enacted, as follows: |
Section 1. The boards of supervisors of the counties of Alleghany,
Botetourt and Highland are hereby authorized and empowered to fix the
open and closed seasons for the hunting and trapping of foxes and bear
in their respective counties by ordinance duly adopted by the said board
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 whole of the said county or in
any one or more magisterial districts thereof, and separate and different
ordinances and provisions may be adopted for each such magisterial
district, within the general limits of the powers conferred by this act.