CHAPTER 445

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-52, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to exemptions from requirements for licenses to hunt, trap

or fish.
[H 365]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-52, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 29-52. (1) License shall not be required of landowners, their
husbands or wives and their children, resident or nonresident, to hunt,
trap and fish within the boundaries of their own lands and inland waters.

(2) License shall not be required of bona fide tenants, renters or
lessees to hunt, trap or fish within the boundaries of the lands or waters
of which they are tenant, renter or lessee and on which they reside;
provided such tenant, renter or lessee has the written consent of the
landlord upon his person, and provided further that a guest of the owner
of a private fish pond shall not be required to have a fishing license to
fish in such pond.

(8) License shall not be required of resident persons under sixteen
years old to trap or fish, nor of resident persons seventy years of age or
over “4 hunt, trap or fish on private property in the county in which he
re

(4) License shall not be required to trap for rabbits with box traps.

(5) License shall not be required of any Indian who habitually resides
on an Indian reservation, provided that such Indian has on his person an
identification card or paper signed by the chief of his reservation, setting
forth that the person named therein is an actual resident upon such
reservation. Such card or paper shall create a presumption of such
residence, which may be rebutted by proof of actual residence elsewhere.