CHAPTER 232

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 28-212 of the Code of 1950 in
relation to the pursuit and arrest of law violators who cross
the Maryland-Virginia line, so as to restore the original
provision concerning its time of taking effect. rH512 3

Approved March 15, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 28-212 of the Code of 1950 be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 28-212. Pursuit and arrest of law violators who cross
Maryland-Virginia line.—(a) It shall be lawful for any police
officer of the Conservation Commission of Maryland, or other
officer of such commission having policing powers and charged
with the duty of enforcing the fish and shellfish laws of Mary-
land, along the Maryland-Virginia line in the Chesapeake Bay,
while in the act of arresting or attempting to arrest a person
or persons for an alleged violation of such laws, committed in
his presence and for which he is attempting an immediate
arrest, to pursue such person or persons across the State line
into Virginia and to make such arrest in Virginia.

(b) The several police officers of the Commission of Fish-
eries of Virginia, and any other officer or agent of the Commis-
sion, having policing powers and charged with the duty of en-
forcing the fish and shellfish laws of Virginia in the Chesapeake
Bay along the Maryland-Virginia line, are hereby authorized
and empowered to pursue any person or persons whom they
are attempting to arrest for an alleged violation of the fish and
shellfish laws of Virginia, committed in their presence and for
which they are seeking an immediate arrest, across the State
line into Maryland, if any such person or persons should flee
across such line, to arrest such person or persons in Maryland
and to return him or them to Virginia.

(c) This section shall not take effect unless and until the
General Assembly of the State of Maryland shall have enacted
concurrent legislation and the Governor of this Commonwealth
shall have issued his proclamation as hereinafter provided; and
if and when such concurrent legislation shall have been enacted
by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland and provi-
sions made whereby the same will become effective concurrently
herewith, the Governor shall issue his proclamation declaring
the provisions of this section effective.

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

passage.