CHAPTER 589

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-209 as amended of the Code of Virginia,
relating to disposition of dog funds, so as to prescribe how the funds
of a certain county are to be used.

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Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-209 as amended of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 29-209. After paying the fifteen per centum on gross collections
to the State Treasurer as otherwise provided, the remaining amount in
the dog fund of the county or city shall first be used to pay for treatment
of persons for rabies, advertising notices, freight and express or postage,
and if the remainder is sufficient, all damages to livestock or poultry,
and if the governing body of the county so desire it may make therefrom
an allowance to the game warden for services, and all allowances and
payments heretofore made by the governing body of any county to game
wardens and ex officio game wardens for services are hereby validated.
In the event the remainder is not sufficient to pay such damages, the
claims shall be filed and paid in the order of presentation out of the first
available money coming into the fund.

Should there not be a sum sufficient in the dog fund of the county
of Augusta to defray all costs including the payment of claims as provided
in § 29-202, then the governing body of such county may appropriate a
sufficient amount from the general fund of such county to provide payment
of such costs and claims.

Any funds in excess of two hundred fifty dollars remaining in the
hands of the treasurer on December thirty-first may on that date be
transferred into the general fund of the county or city, or at the discretion
of the governing body of any county or city, any portion thereof may be
transferred into a special fund and used for the purpose of replenishing
or restocking quail or other game in such county or counties adjoining
such city; provided, that in the counties of Giles, Warwick and Wythe,
the entire fund remaining in the hands of the treasurer on December
thirty-first shall be transferred by the governing body into a special fund
and, subject to the approval of the Commission, shall be used for the
purpose of replenishing, restocking and protecting quail or other game
and game fish in the county; provided, that in the county of Giles the
governing body shall transfer the entire fund remaining in the hands of
the treasurer on December thirty-first of each year into a special fund
to be used for the purpose of replenishing or restocking and protection of
quail and other game and game fish in the county, and in the county of
Essex the governing body shall likewise transfer the sum of two hundred
fifty dollars, as above provided, for the same purpose of replenishing or
restocking and protection of quail and other game and game fish in the
county; provided, that in each of the counties of Warwick and Wythe the
special fund or any portion thereof not so expended at the expiration of
two years from the date of its transfer as such special fund shall revert
to the general fund of the county and in the discretion of the governing
body be apportioned as next herein provided.

In the discretion of the governing body of the respective counties, the
fund remaining in such county may be apportioned between the county and
any incorporated town or towns in such county in the proportion that the
amount of the license tax collected in the town or towns bears to the total
dog license tax in the county in which the town or towns are located, to
be used as the governing body of the town directs, except that in the county
of Essex no apportionment shall be made to the town of Tappahannock
and that in the county of Middlesex no apportionment shall be made to
the town of Urbanna.

Any funds heretofore set aside in the county of Grayson for the
purpose of replenishing, restocking and protecting quail or other game
and game fish in the county may, by order of the governing body of the
county, be transferred to the general fund of the county.

In the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, the entire fund remaining
in the hands of the treasurer on December thirty-first shall be transferred
by the governing body into a special fund and subject to the approval of the
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries shall be used for the purpose
of replenishing, restocking and protecting game birds and game animals
and game fish in the counties.

In the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, the entire fund remaining
in the hands of the treasurer on December thirty-first shall be transferred
by the governing body into a special fund and subject to the approval of
the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries shall be used for the pur-
pose of replenishing, restocking and protecting game birds and game
animals and game fish in the counties.