CHAPTER 288

An Act to require a license to hunt deer in certain counties; to provide
for collection and disposition of the license fees; to prescribe penalties

for violation; and to provide for the effective date thereof.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: . .
1. § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt deer in the counties
of New Kent and Charles City 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 hunt-
ing Heatise 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 by deer, whenever the damage amounts to ten dollars
or more. Any person suffering such damage shall report it promptly to
the game warden of the county, whose duty it is to investigate the same
at once. The governing body of the county is authorized to provide for
the ascertainment of damages in such manner as it deems proper. All
claims are to be paid at the regular December meeting of the Board of
Supervisors. In the event there are not sufficient funds in said special fund,
then all claims will be paid pro rata. Any funds remaining in the treasury,
shall remain in the special fund to be used for the conservation of wild
life under direction of the governing body. .

The special stamp herein provided for shall be obtained from
the clerk of the circuit court of the county or his representative who shall
receive from the special fund a fee of ten cents for each stamp so issued.
Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction punished accordingly. The provisions of
this act shall supersede any other provision of law imposing similar
license requirements insofar as the same shall be applicable to such
counties.

§ 4. This act shall not take effect except and until it shall have been
adopted and made effective by the governing body of the county.