CHAPTER 609

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-145.1, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to permits to kill deer damaging fruit trees and crops.

. [S 280]
Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-145.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows: .

§ 29-145.1. Whenever it is found that deer are damaging fruit trees
or crops in the State, the owner or lessee of the lands on which such
damage is done shall immediately report such fact to the local game warden
for investigation. If after investigation the game warden finds that deer
have so injured the fruit trees or crops of such owner or lessee as to cause
* damage, he shall authorize the owner or lessee to kill such deer when
they are found upon his premises and in the act of further injuring
such trees or crops.

The carcass of every deer so killed shall be delivered by the owner or
lessee to the game warden of the county, who shall deliver it to such chari-
table institution or hospital as designated by the Commission of Game and
Inland Fisheries; provided, however, that in the counties of Shenandoah,
Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Southampton, Fauquier, Pulaskt, Washington,
Warren, Clarke, Frederick, and Rappahannock any deer * so killed in any
year shall, upon request, be awarded by the game warden to the owner
or lessee, who shall give such person a certificate to that effect on forms
furnished by the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. Any per-
son awarded a deer under this section may make use thereof as if the
same had been killed by him during the season therefor.