Chap. 461.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4743 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, in relation to the disposal of certain maimed, diseased, disabled and
infirm animals, and the bodies of dead animals. [S 300]

Approved April 2, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That section forty-seven hundred and forty-three of the Code
of Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:
Section 4743. If any person cast any dead animal into a road, or
wingly permit any dead animal to remain unburied upon his property
en offensive to the public, or having in custody any maimed, diseased,
abled or infirm animal, leaves it to lie or be in a street, road or public
ce, he shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars; and if any person
raged in the regular business of using or disposing of or rendering
d animals shall transport any dead animal, other than those killed
human consumption, along a public road or street without the same
ng fully covered, he shall be fined not less than five dollars nor
re than one hundred dollars.