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