CHAPTER 182

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-98 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
closed season for taking oysters in certain waters. CH 484]

Approved March 4, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

a That § 28-98 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 28-98. In all the waters of Virginia on the western side of the
Chesapeake Bay from Mobjack Bay and its tributaries to the Potomac
river, the prohibited time shall be from the first day of April to the first
day of October; and in James river below the seed line, as established, the
Preble time shall be from the first day of April to the first day of

ctober; and in the James river above the seed line, as established; and
that in Broad Bay, Long Creek, Linkhorn Bay, or in any of the tributaries
thereof in the county of Princess Anne, the prohibited time shall be all the
year, except the months of October and November; and that in the waters
of Pocomoke Sound the prohibited time shall be from the first day of April
to the first day of October in each year; and in the Piankitank River the
prohibited time may in the discretion of the Commission of Fisheries be
fixed at from the first day of May to the first day of October in each year.
2. An emergency exists and this act shall be in force from its passage.