CHAPTER 129

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-145.1, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to killing of deer damaging fruit or crops. tH :
382

Approved March 1, 1960

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 char-
itable institution or hospital as designated by the Commission of Game
and Inland Fisheries; provided, however, that in the counties of Shenan-
doah, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Southampton, Fauquier, Pulaski, Wash-
ington, Warren, Clarke, Frederick, Surry 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
person awarded a deer under this section may make use thereof as if the
same had been killed by him during the season therefor.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.