CHAPTER 470

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
29-184.8 to provide for enforcement of dog laws in certain counties;
to transfer certain powers in such connection from game wardens and
to confer the same upon dog wardens and deputy dog wardens; to
provide for appointment of dog wardens and deputy dog wardens,
their terms of office, powers, duties and compensation; and to provide
for license taxes and the disposition thereof.

fS 184]

Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
29-184.3 as follows: .

§ 29-184.3. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the
counties of Augusta and Roanoke, the enforcement of the dog laws shall be
vested in a dog warden and deputy dog wardens, and upon the appointment
therein of a dog warden and deputy dog wardens the game warden shall
have no jurisdiction as to the enforcement of the dog laws. In such county
the judge of the circuit court shall appoint from a list of not less than three
nor more than five persons nominated by the governing body of the county
an officer to be known as the dog warden, who shall have exclusive juris-
diction as to the enforcement of the dog laws in the county; the judge may
also so appoint, from a similar list of not less than three nor more than seven
persons, such number of deputy dog wardens as are requested by the
governing body. Such deputy dog wardens shall have the powers and
duties of a dog warden. The dog warden and deputy dog warden shall
have all the powers and duties of a game warden in the enforcement of
the dog laws. The dog warden and deputy dog wardens shall be paid such
compensation as the governing body of the county may prescribe.

(b) The lists of nominations so made by such governing body shall
be submitted to the court or the judge thereof in vacation not later than
the fifteenth day of June of each year and the appointments shall be made
by the court or judge on or before the thirtieth day of June for one year
commencing on the first day of July and expiring on the thirtieth day of
June next succeeding.

(c) In such county the amount of the dog license tax, which in no
event shall be more than four dollars per dog, shall be fixed by ordinance
adopted by the governing body of such county, and thereafter the tax
imposed under § 29-184 shall not apply therein. The entire amount col-
lected for dog license taxes in the county shall be paid into the county
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eRSUEy, the provisions of §§ 29-206 and 29-209 to the contrary notwith-
standing. .

(d) All other provisions of Chapter 9 of this title shall apply mutatis
mautanclis to any such county and dog wardens and deputy dog wardens
therein.