CHAPTER 208

AN ACT to require a license to hunt certain wild animals in
certain counties and to provide for collection and disposi-
tion of the license fees and to prescribe penalties for viola-
tions of the provisions of this act.

( H 377 ]

Approved March 14, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt bear or
deer in the counties of Washington, Grayson, Bath, or Rock-
bridge without first having obtained a special stamp as herein
provided, the fee therefor being one dollar annually. The
stamp shall be adhesively affixed to the back of the current
season’s hunting license issued such person who shall cancel
the same with his initials in ink.

§ 2. The money received from the sale of such special
stamp shall be paid to the county treasurer to the credit of a
Special fund, and the net amount thereof, or so much as is neces-
sary, shall be used for the payment of damages to crops or live-
stock by deer or bear in the county, whenever such damage
amounts to ten dollars or more. Such payments shall be limited
to the net amount accruing in the special fund from the sales
of such stamps in the particular county during the license year
in which the damage occurred and any surplus remaining at the
end of such year shall remain in such fund and be used for the
conservation of wild life in the county under the direction of the
board of supervisors. Any person suffering such damage shall
report the same promptly to the game warden of the county,
whose duty it shall be to investigate the same at once. The
claim for damages shall be filed in duplicate under oath on forms
furnished by the clerk of the county. If the claimant and game
warden agree as to the amount of damage the game warden shall
approve the claim and forward it to the treasurer. If no such
agreement is reached between them the claim shall be submitted
to the arbitration of three persons in the customary manner
and the award of the arbitrators shall be final and binding.

§ 3. The special stamps herein provided for shall be ob-

tained from the clerk of the circuit court of the county. Any
person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction punished accordingly.
2. Any acts or parts of acts imposing similar license require-
ments as to hunting bear and deer are hereby repealed insofar
as they affect the counties of Washington, Grayson, Bath, or
Rockbridge.