Chap. 37.——An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 80 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended relating to disposition of
dog fund. [H B 78]

Approved February 17, 1942

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
eighty of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Section 80. Disposition of dog fund.—After paying the fifteen per
centum on gross collections to the State Treasurer as otherwise provided,
the remaining amount in the dog fund of the county or city shall first be
used to pay: treatment of persons for rabies, advertising notices, freight
and express or postage, and if the remainder is sufficient, all damages to
livestock or poultry and if the board of supervisors desire it may make
therefrom an allowance to the game warden for services, and all allow-
ances and payments heretofore made by boards of supervisors to game
wardens and ex-officio game wardens for services are hereby validated.
In the event the remainder is not sufficient to pay such damages, the
claims shall be filed and paid in the order of presentation out of the first
available money coming into the fund. Any funds in excess of two hun-
dred and fifty dollars remaining in the hands of the treasurer on Decem-
ber thirty-first may on that date be transferred into the general fund of
the county or city, or at the discretion of the board of supervisgrs or other
governing body of any county or city, any portion thereof may be trans-
ferred into a special fund and used for the purpose of replenishing or
restocking quail or other game in such county or counties adjoining such
city; provided that in the counties of Giles, Warwick and Wythe, the
entire fund remaining in the hands of the treasurer on December thirty-
first shall be transferred by the board of supervisors into a special fund
and, subject to the approval of the Commission of Game and Inland
Fisheries, shall be used for the purpose of replenishing, restocking and
protecting quail or other game and game fish in said county ; provided that
in the county of Giles the board of supervisors shall transfer one-half of
the entire fund remaining in the hands of the treasurer on December
thirty-first of each year into a special fund to be used for the purpose of
replenishing or restocking and protection of quail and other game and
game fish in said county, and in the county of Essex the board of super-
visors shall likewise transfer the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, as
above provided, for the same purpose of replenishing or restocking and
protection of quail and other game and game fish in said county.