CHAPTER 600

An Act to require certain licenses to hunt certain game in certain counties ;
to provide for collection and disposition of license fees; to prescribe
penalties for violations of the provisions of this act; and to repeal
certain acts.

" [H 687]

Approved April 3, 1952

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 Grayson and Wythe without first having obtained a special
stamp as provided, the annual fee therefor being as follows: for residents
of the county of Wythe, one dollar; for nonresidents of the county of
Wythe but residents of the State of Virginia, one dollar; for nonresidents
of the State of Virginia, five dollars. 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 necessary, shall be used for the
payment of damages to crops or livestock by deer or bear in the county,
whenever such damage amounts to ten dollars or more; except that the
clerk of the circuit court shall be allowed to retain a fee of ten cents for
each such special stamp sold. Such payments shall be limited to the net
amount accruing in the special fund from the sales of such stamps in the
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, and in cooperation with the Department of
Game and Inland Fisheries. Any person suffering such damage shall
report the same promptly to the board of supervisors of the county,
whose duty it shall be to investigate the same at once or appoint three
disinterested persons to appraise and report such damages to the board,
which shall have the right to approve or disapprove such report. The
claim for damages shall be filed in duplicate under oath on forms fur-
nished by the clerk of the county. If such report and claim be approved,

the board of supervisors shall forward such approved claim to the
treasurer.

§ 3. The special stamps herein provided for shall be obtained 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 convic-
tion punished accordingly.

. Any acts or parts of acts imposing similar license requirements as
to the hunting of bear or deer are hereby repealed, insofar as they affect
the counties of Grayson and Wythe.