Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-08-08
Virginia Hunting and Game Igus

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Richmond, Aug. 8. For the first
time In the history of the state Vir-
ginia's hunting and trapping laws have
been compiled in brief in one short
page for publication in The Conser-
vationist, magazine fof the depart
ment of game and inland fisheries.
The compilation was done by M. d.
Hart and L. w. Tyes, secretary and
assistant secretary, respectively, of the
department, and will be one of the
features of the next issue of the Con-
sefvationist which will be out this
week.
! Among the principal provisions con-
tanned in the compilation are the
| following
ut is unlawful
ITO hunt, shoot at, kill or capture
any game bird or any game animal
during closed season to use reflectors
or other lights or sneak boats or
artificial islands in detecting or cap
turing game birds to capture or to
set or to use any nets, traps or other
devlses for capturing game birds or
. noIi-game birds or to destroy their
nests, eggs or young, except the Eng
lish sparrow, hawk, owl, crow, jay bird
and blackbird.
10 possess protected game ami
mails or protected upland game bird,
: more than five days, or migratory
game birds more than ten days after
close of the open season, or 10 kill
capture or possess any other wild bire
at any time, except as above noted.
Il ITO hunt. shoot at, or capture an,
protected game animal or protected up
a land game bird earlier than one half hou
e before sunrise and later than one-hal
nour after sunset, or any migrator,
game bird earlier than one half hou
. before sunrise and later than sunset
!. This shall not apply to hares an,
!. squirrels on own land.
II TO kill, capture or disturb any will,
animals or any wild birds, their nests
! eggs or young on any state gam
sanctuary, except predatory birds an,
( animals and only under written permi
If from the commissioner of game and in
d land fishers.
,. 10 shoot any game on Sunday O
to shoot any game with larger than
= ten-bore or more than one gun at
s. time or battery of guns.
v. ITO shoot any wild bird or shoot O
n trap any wild animal without license
N except as provided by Code section
1884 and 80 or to lend or use th
license of another; and license t
"a hunt, trap or fish may he revoked fo
1t knowingly and wilfully violating th
S. hunting, trapping or fishing laws.
TO exceed the bag limit provide
under penalty of fine for each specie
taken in excess.
ie ITO go upon any federal fore.
III reserve. or in or on the waters thereo
with intent to hunt, catch, trap, wilfull
70 destroy, or to take the eggs of an
! such birds in violation of the laws {
III Virginia.
" ITO sell, offer to sell, or barter ,
IN exchange the carcass of any part Their
IN OF OF any wild game animal or game
non-game bird, or any live wild gan
~ animal or game or non-game bir,
protected by law, except hare
"a squirrels and muskrats legally killt
ID during open season.
re ITO ship or transport from the stat
es alive or dead, any game bird or gan
animal Except hares and squirrels
y. provided that during open season no
ne resident licensed hunter may take
rs baggage on same conveyance or
u. personal possession not exceeding
wild waterfowl, so quail or partridg
pt 10 pheasants, or grouse, 3wild turke,
- and deer, the aggregate not to e.
% coed 100, when killed by himself. Al
citizen of Virginia may ship or ha,
pc transported, as gift and not for sal
re l deer, wild turkeys, pheasants,
of wild waterfowl and IS partridges
quail
ITO ship game birds or game an
~ mails, the sale of which is prohibite
es from one point in Virginia to anoth,
except as gift and only if legally xii
he ed during the open season."
:. The compilation then gives in bri
~ and table-form other regulations ii
Guiding the bag limits and open seasc
dates.