An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1966 |
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Law Number | 428 |
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CHAPTER 428
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-198 of the Code of Verginia, 1 providing
pedir dogs deemed personal property and prescribing rights relating
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Approved April 1, 1966
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
be owe That § 29-198 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollo
He 99-198. All dogs * shall be deemed personal property and may be
the subject of larceny and malicious or unlawful trespass, and the owners
thereof may maintain any action for the killing of any such dogs, or injury
thereto, or unlawful detention or use thereof as in the case of other per-
sonal property. It shall be unlawful for any person except the owner or
his authorized agent to administer poison to any such dog or expose po poison
where it may be taken by any such dog, or to injure, disfigure, disable or
kill any dog except as otherwise provided in this chapter. The owner of any
dog which is injured or killed contrary to the provisions of this chapter by
any person shall be entitled to recover the value thereof or the damage
done thereto in an appropriate action at law from such person. A game
warden or other officer finding a stolen dog, or a dog held or detained
contrary to law, shall have authority to seize and hold such dog pending
action before a trial justice or other court. If no such action is instituted
within five days the game warden or other officer shall deliver the dog
to its owner. The presence of a dog on the premises of a person other
than its legal owner shall raise no presumption of theft against the owner
of such premises but it shall be his duty to notify the game warden there-
of and the game warden shall take such dog in charge and notify its legal
owner to remove him. The legal owner of the dog shall pay a reasonable
charge for the keep of such dog while in the possession of the game warden.