Chap. 314.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 355 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1944, approved March 30, 1944, authorizing the killing of deer damaging
crops in certain counties so as to extend the application thereof. fH B 423]

Approved March 26, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter three hundred fifty-five of the Acts of Assembly
of nineteen hundred forty-four, approved March thirty, nineteen hundred
forty-four, be amended and re- -enacted, as follows:

Whenever it is found that deer are damaging fruit trees or crops in
Rockingham, Warren, Rappahannock, Augusta, Caroline, Smyth, Wash-
ington, or Page counties, the owner or lessee of the lands on which such
damage is done shall immediately report such fact to the local game
warden for investigation. If after investigation the game warden finds
that deer have so injured the fruit trees or crops of such owner or lessee
as to cause substantial damage, he shall authorize the owner or lessee to
kill such deer when they are found upon his premises and in the act of
further injuring such trees or crops.

The carcass of every deer so killed shall be delivered by the owner
or lessee to the game warden of the county, who shall deliver it to such
charitable institution or hospital as designated by the Commission of
Game and Inland Fisheries.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.