2006 Code of Virginia § 29.1-530.1 - Blaze orange clothing required at certain times

29.1-530.1. Blaze orange clothing required at certain times.

During any firearms deer season, except during the special season for huntingdeer with a muzzle-loading rifle only, in counties and cities designated bythe Board, every hunter, or any person accompanying a hunter, shall wear ablaze orange hat, except that the bill or brim of the hat may be a color ordesign other than solid blaze orange, or blaze orange upper body clothingthat is visible from 360 degrees or display at least 100 square inches ofsolid blaze orange material at shoulder level within body reach visible from360 degrees.

Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction,pay a fine of $25.

Violations of this section shall not be admissible in any civil action forpersonal injury or death as evidence of negligence, contributory negligenceor assumption of the risk.

This section shall not apply when (i) hunting waterfowl from stationary orfloating blinds, (ii) hunting waterfowl over decoys, (iii) hunting waterfowlin wetlands as defined in 28.2-1300, (iv) hunting waterfowl from a boat orother floating conveyance, (v) participating in hunting dog field trialspermitted by the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries, (vi) on horseback whilehunting foxes with hounds but without firearms, or (vii) hunting with a bowand arrow in areas where the discharge of firearms is prohibited by state lawor local ordinance.

(1987, c. 319, 29-147.2; 1988, cc. 474, 715; 2002, c. 39; 2005, c. 167.)