CHAPTER 343

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-52 of the Code of 1950, relating
to exemptions from license requirements for hunting, fishing
and trapping so as to extend such exempttons.

[S 152]

Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-52 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 29-52. Exemptions from license requirements.—(1) License
shall not be required of landowners, their husbands 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, and provided further that
a house guest of the owner of a private fish pond shall not be re-
quired to have a fishing license to fish in such pond.
(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.