An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1948 |
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Law Number | 317 |
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Chap. 317.—An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 14, 19 as amended, and
23 as amended of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia relating
to game protection fund, and license fees, respectively; to amend such Code
by adding a new section numbered 33-a, relating to powers of Commission as
to seasons, and to repeal certain laws. {H 77]
Approved March 17, 1948
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That sections fourteen, nineteen as amended, and twenty-
three as amended of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Vir-
ginia be amended and reenacted, and that such Code be amended by
adding a new section numbered thirty-three-a, the amended and
new sections reading as follows:
Section 14. Game protection fund created: disbursements
therefrom.—The amount received by the State treasurer from the
sale of hunting, trapping and fishing licenses, the fifteen per centum
dog fund and such other items as may accrue to the Commission
shall be set aside by him and shall constitute the game protection
fund. This fund, including any unexpended balance on hand at any
time, shall be a separate fund in the State treasury and shall be
used for the payment of the salaries, allowances, wages, and
expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of the hunting,
trapping, inland fish and dog laws and for no other purpose; pro-
vided however that the Commission shall so arrange and keep its
accounts that the funds derived from (1) the fifteen per centum
dog fund, (2) hunting licenses, (3) fishing licenses, (4) trapping
licenses, (4-2) county combination hunting and fishing license, (5)
other licenses and permits and (6) other sources, respectively, may
at all times be ascertained. The Commission shall defray the cost
of administration and enforcement of the hunting, trapping, inland
fish and dog laws therefrom and shall charge each of such accounts
therefor upon the basis of the per cent that each account is of the
whole; after payment of such expenses the residue in each such
account shall be held exclusively, and is hereby appropriated espec-
ially, for restocking and propagating game, fish and furbearers
therefrom, provided that seventy-five per centum of the net pro-
ceeds of the county combination hunting and fishing license is
appropriated for restocking and propagating game, and twenty-
five per centum of such net proceeds is appropriated for restocking
and propagating fish, and such net proceeds as so appropriated may
only be expended as hereinafter provided; it shall be unlawful for
the Commission to expend funds derived from hunting licenses for
restocking, propagating, or improving the habitat of any species
of fish or to spend funds derived from fishing licenses for the
restocking, propagating or habitat improvement of any species of
game. Funds derived from fishing licenses shall only be expended
for improving fishing, and funds derived from hunting licenses
shall only be used to improve hunting, and funds derived from
trapping licenses to restock and propagate furbearers; provided,
however that the amended provisions of said section shall not be-
come effective until July eleven, nineteen hundred forty-eight.
The disbursements of the Commission shall be limited to the
amount appropriated by the General Assembly from the game
protection fund and in no event shall the State pay obligations
that may be incurred by said Commission or be liable in any manner
therefor except to the extent of the game protection fund. Accounts
for salaries, allowances, wages, and expenses authorized by the
Commission or Chairman shall be certified to the Comptroller for
payment as the Commission may direct by resolution.
Section 19. Unlawful to hunt, trap or fish without license
and fees therefor.—It shall be unlawful to hunt, trap or fish in or
on the lands or inland waters of this State without first obtaining
a license, subject to the following exceptions:
(a) Exceptions.
(1) Licenses shall not be required of landowners, their hus-
bands or wives and their children, resident or nonresident, to hunt,
trap and fish within the boundaries of their own lands and inland
waters,
(2) License shall not be required of bona fide tenants, renters
or lessees to hunt, trap or fish within the boundaries of the lands
or waters of which they are tenant, renter or lessee and on which
they reside; provided such tenant, renter or lessee has the written
consent of the landlord upon his person.
(3) License shall not be required of resident persons under
fourteen years old to trap or fish.
(4) License shall not be required to trap for rabbits with box
traps.
(b) License Fees to fish only.—The license fees to fish shall
be as follows: .
(1) County resident season license to fish in inland waters
above salt water within the county limits of the county of residence
with a rod and reel, or other method whereby artificial lures or min-
nows are used as bait or to fish for bass or trout, one dollar.
(2) State resident season license to fish only three dollars.
(3) State nonresident season license, ten dollars.
(c) License to hunt only.—The license fees to hunt only shall
be as follows:
(1) County resident season license to hunt only within the
county of residence, one dollar.
(2) State resident season license to hunt only three dollars
and fifty cents.
(3) State nonresident license to hunt only fifteen dollars
seventy-five cents.
(d) License fees to trap only.—The license fees to trap only
shall be as follows:
(1) County resident season license three dollars.
(2) State resident season license twenty dollars.
(3) State nonresident season license fifty dollars.
(e) County resident combination hunting and fishing license.
The license fee to hunt and fish in the county of residence only
within the regulations and restrictions provided by law—one dollar.
Section 23. Prices of licenses.—Licenses shall be sold for the
following prices:
(a) County license to hunt only, within the regulations and
restrictions provided by law, in the county named on the face
thereof—one dollar.
(a-1) County license to fish only, within the regulations and
restrictions provided by law in the county named on the face
thereof—one dollar.
(a-2) County resident season license to hunt and fish in the
county of residence only, within the regulations and restrictions
provided by law, in the county named on the face thereof—one
ollar.
(b) State license to hunt only, within the regulations and
restrictions provided by law, in any and all counties of this State—
three dollars and fifty cents.
(b-1) State license to fish only, within the regulations and
restrictions provided by law, in any and all counties of this State
—three dollars.
(c) Nonresident license to hunt only, within the regulations
and restrictions provided by law, in any and all counties of this
State—fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
(e) Nonresident license to fish only, by any method, within
the regulations and restrictions provided by law, in all inland
waters of this State—ten dollars.
(g) The use of license buttons, as required by sections twenty
and twenty-five of this act, shall be optional with the Commission
for any or all licenses herein provided.
Section 33-a. Within the limits prescribed by law the Commis-
sion shall have power to prescribe the seasons for hunting, fishing,
trapping, or otherwise taking fish and game; provided, however,
that the opening date of any such season heretofore or hereafter
fixed shall be uniform throughout the State and there shall be no
variation therein as between areas located east and those west of
the Blue Ridge. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as
repealing any special act as to game fish and trapping.