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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 29.1 GAME, INLAND FISHERIES AND BOATING.
Chapter 5 Wildlife and Fish Laws (29.1-500 thru 29.1-577)
- 29.1-500 Description unavailable
- 29.1-501 Promulgation of regulations; publication of proposed regulations or change therein; validation; evi...
- 29.1-502 Adoption of regulations
- 29.1-503 Description unavailable
- 29.1-504 Annual publication of laws and regulations
- 29.1-505 Penalty for violation of regulations
- 29.1-505.1 Conspiracy; penalty
- 29.1-506 Prescribing seasons and bag limits for taking fish and game
- 29.1-507 Closing or shortening open season
- 29.1-508 Board to prescribe seasons, bag limits and methods of taking and killing fish and game on lands an...
- 29.1-508.1 Use of drugs on vertebrate wildlife
- 29.1-509 Duty of care and liability for damages of landowners to hunters, fishermen, sightseers, et...
- 29.1-510 Big game; small game
- 29.1-511 Open season on nuisance species
- 29.1-512 Closed season on other species
- 29.1-513 Daily and season bag limits as promulgated by Board regulations
- 29.1-514 Nonmigratory game birds
- 29.1-515 Migratory game birds
- 29.1-516 Game animals
- 29.1-516.1 Using tracking dogs to retrieve bears or deer.
- 29.1-517 Fur-bearing animals
- 29.1-518 When killing of beaver permitted
- 29.1-519 Guns, pistols, revolvers, etc., which may be used; penalty
- 29.1-520 Times for hunting
- 29.1-521 Unlawful to hunt, trap, possess, sell or transport wild birds and wild animals except as permitted...
- 29.1-521.1 Willfully impeding hunting or trapping; penalty
- 29.1-521.2 Violation of { 18.2-286 while hunting; forfeiture of certain weapons; revocation of license and p...
- 29.1-521.3 Shooting wild birds and wild animals from stationary vehicles by disabled persons
- 29.1-522 Unlawful to kill male deer unless antlers visible above hair
- 29.1-523 Killing deer by use of certain lights; acts raising presumption of attempt to kill
- 29.1-523.1 Hunting deer with sights after dark; forfeiture of weapon and sighting device
- 29.1-524 Forfeiture of vehicles and weapons used for killing or attempt to kill
- 29.1-525 Employment of lights under certain circumstances upon places used by deer
- 29.1-525.1 Deer enclosures prohibited; exceptions; penalty
- 29.1-526 Counties and cities may prohibit hunting or trapping near primary and secondary highways
- 29.1-527 Counties, cities or towns may prohibit hunting near public schools and county, city, town or region...
- 29.1-527.1 Localities may prohibit feeding of migratory and nonmigratory waterfowl
- 29.1-528 Board to develop model ordinances for hunting with firearms; counties or cities may adopt
- 29.1-528.1 Board to develop model ordinances for hunting with bow and arrow; counties or cities may adopt...
- 29.1-529 Killing of deer or bear damaging fruit trees, crops, livestock, or personal property; wildlife crea...
- 29.1-530 Open and closed season for trapping, bag limits, etc
- 29.1-530.1 Blaze orange clothing required at certain times
- 29.1-530.2 Unlawfully killing bear; penalty
- 29.1-530.3 Remote hunting prohibited; penalty
- 29.1-530.4 Duty of certain entities to report hunting incidents
- 29.1-530.5 Wildlife Violator Compact
- 29.1-531 Unlawful to take or attempt to take, possess, sell or transport fish except as permitted
- 29.1-532 Dams and fishways
- 29.1-533 Prohibition against use of substances injurious to fish
- 29.1-534 Right to fish in interjurisdictional inland waters
- 29.1-535 Reciprocal agreement as to fishing in such waters
- 29.1-536 Sale
- 29.1-537 Possession
- 29.1-538 Description unavailable
- 29.1-539 Keeping deer or bear struck by motor vehicle; procedure to be followed by driver
- 29.1-540 Carriage and shipment
- 29.1-541 Storage
- 29.1-542 Importation
- 29.1-543 Game and fish taken and packaged outside the Commonwealth
- 29.1-544 Dressing, packing and selling bobwhite quail
- 29.1-545 Possession, sale, offering for sale or liberation of live nutria
- 29.1-546 General penalty
- 29.1-547 Trapping, selling, purchasing, etc., migratory game birds
- 29.1-548 Killing deer illegally
- 29.1-549 Hunting deer from watercraft; confiscation of watercraft and weapons used
- 29.1-550 Taking game or fish during closed season or exceeding bag limit
- 29.1-551 Assessment of value of game or fish unlawfully taken
- 29.1-552 Killing wild turkey during closed season
- 29.1-553 Selling or offering for sale; penalty
- 29.1-554 Violation of sanctuaries, refuges, preserves and water used for propagation
- 29.1-554.1 Impeding lawful fishing in inland waters; penalty
- 29.1-555 Description unavailable
- 29.1-556 Unlawful devices to be destroyed
- 29.1-556.1 Release of certain balloons prohibited; civil penalty
- 29.1-557 Confiscation of wild birds and animals under certain circumstances; disposition
- 29.1-558 through 29.1-560
- 29.1-561 Self-incrimination
- 29.1-562 Description unavailable
- 29.1-563 Definitions
- 29.1-564 Taking, transportation, sale, etc., of endangered species prohibited
- 29.1-565 Description unavailable
- 29.1-566 Regulations
- 29.1-567 Penalties; authority of conservation police officers and police officers; disposition of property s...
- 29.1-568 When Board may permit taking of endangered or threatened species; designated experimental populatio...
- 29.1-569 Keeping of reptiles generally; penalty
- 29.1-570 Cooperation of state agencies
- 29.1-571 Definition
- 29.1-572 Authority of Board; regulations
- 29.1-573 Department; powers
- 29.1-574 Prohibitions
- 29.1-575 Permits
- 29.1-576 Authority for inspection; warrants
- 29.1-577 Penalties
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