CHAPTER 673

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-52, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to exemptions from requirement for licenses to
hunt, trap or fish and to licenses for persons seventy years of age

or older.
[H 526]
Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

§ 29-52. Exemptions from license requirements.—(1) License shall
10t be required of landowners, their husbands or wives and their children
ind minor grandchildren, 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
essees to hunt, trap or fish within the boundaries of the lands or waters
f which they are tenant, renter or lessee and on which they reside; pro-
rided such tenant, renter or lessee has the written consent of the landlord
ipon his person. and provided further that a guest of the owner of a
ale vid pond shall not be required to have a fishing license to fish in
uch pond.
(3) License shall not be required of resident persons under sixte
years old to trap or fish, nor of a resident person seventy years of age.
over to hunt, trap or fish on private property in the county in which ]
resides. A resident seventy years of age or older may upon proof of a
satisfactory to the Commission and the payment of a five dollar fee, app
for and receive from the Commission a nontransferable license valid fc
life permittmg such person to hunt, trap or fish on any property in an
and all cities and counties of the State according to restrictions and regi
latioves of law.

(3a) License to fish except for trout as provided in § 29-55 (b) sha
not be required of nonresident persons under twelve years of age whe:
accompanied by a person possessing a valid license to fish in Virginia.

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

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