1870 — Virginia — Nighttime Hunting Prohibition

1852 Va. L. chap. 161, p. 133

Summary

Modified previous hunting regulations to prohibit night hunting.

Statutory Text

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the twentieth section of chapter one hundred and one of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“§ 20. If any person, except from the land, shall shoot at or kill wild fowl during the night within this state; or if any person shall, from a skiff or float, or by the air thereof, within the jurisdiction of the counties of Accomack, Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford or King George, whether in the night or day time, shoot or kill wild fowl, he may be convicted thereof before a justice; and on conviction, shall surrender his gun and any such skiff or float, and the same shall be forfeited to the commonwealth. If he fail to surrender them, he shall be comitted to jail for thirty days, unless the surrender be sooner made, And if any person offending against this section be not an actual resident of this state, he shall moreover forfeit two hundred dollars.”

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Title 1870 — Virginia — Nighttime Hunting Prohibition
Conduct Use
Instrument Firearms
Jurisdiction VA
Date 1870