Chap. 304.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 167, as amended, of the Acts
_ Of 1938, approved March 17, 1938, which made certain special provisions as to
~ certain kinds of dogs in certain named counties, imposed certain prohibitions
relative thereto, prescribed certain license fees, and imposed certain penalties:
so as to make certain change or changes in the applicability of the act, and
to make certain other relevant, special provisions by adding a new section
numbered 2-a. [H B 432]

: Approved March 30, 1942

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That chapter
one hundred and sixty-seven, as heretofore amended, of the Acts of the
General Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, approved March
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, be amended and re-
enacted, as follows:

~ Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to import into, or to
breed within, the counties of Nansemond, Rappahannock, Russell, South-
ampton, l'azewell and Culpeper, any German or Belgian Shepherd or any
other dog having one-fourth or more of the blood of either of them, with-
out obtaining the license hereinafter provided for.

_ Section 2. Each and every person owning any such dog of the
breed, or blood mentioned in section one of this act, within the counties of
Nansemond, Rappahannock, Russell, Southampton, Tazewell and Cul-
peper, all such dogs being deemed dangerous to the farming interest, shall
alter January the first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, procure from
the county treasurer a special license for such dog to be in lieu of all other
licenses on such dogs, the tax on which special licenses shall be as follows :

(a) Fora female, not unsexed, ten dollars.

(b) Fora male or an unsexed female, five dollars.

Upon the application for any such special license and the payment of
the amount of the tax thereon, as fixed by this section, the treasurer shall
issue and deliver his receipt therefor, setting out therein the date of pay-
ment, the year for which paid, and the sex of the dog, and shall furnish to
the owner of the dog a metal license tag to be provided by the board of
supervisors of the county, of such form and design as the board may
adopt, the serial number of which tag shall be set out in said receipt.

In all other respects, the procuring of special dog licenses hereunder,
and the disposition of the money received therefor, shall be in accordance
with general law ; and the license on all other kinds of dogs in said county
shall be as prescribed by general law.

Any person owning or keeping any such dog within the counties of
Nansemond, Rappahannock, Russell, Southampton, Tazewell and Cul-
peper without having paid the special license tax thereon and secured a
metal tag for such dog, as prescribed by this section, shall be required to
forthwith procure such special license for said dog, or, at his option, per-
mit the game warden to kill the dog, which the game warden shall forth-
with do if such license be not paid; and the game warden shall kill any
such dog, of unknown ownership, found running at large, on which such
special license has not been paid.

Section 2-a. The board of supervisors of Caroline and Northum-
berland counties may, by resolution approved by a majority of the mem-
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yers thereof, impose a special county license on any of the kinds of dogs
nentioned in section one of this act, not to exceed the amounts pre-
cribed in section two for male and female dogs, such license to be is-
sued to the owners of such dogs by the county treasurer on such forms
1s may be adopted and provided by said board, upon the payment of the
oroper license fees; and all such fees so collected by the treasurer shall
ne kept in a special account and used for payment of damages to live stock
and poultry by dogs. The provisions of the last clause of the preceding
section shall apply likewise to this section.

Section 3. Provided however, that nothing in this act shall apply
to any dog owned and used, or used, by a blind person as a guide dog.