Virginia Code — 29.1
Browse 397 sections in division 29.1 of the Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 29.1-100. Definitions
- § 29.1-100.1. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries continued as Department of Wildlife Resources
- § 29.1-101. Game Protection Fund
- § 29.1-101.01. Capital Improvement Fund
- § 29.1-101.1. Lifetime Hunting and Fishing Endowment Fund
- § 29.1-101.2. Creation and management of Fund
- § 29.1-101.3. Deposit of money
- § 29.1-101.4. Collection of money due to the Fund
- § 29.1-101.5. Grants and loans to local governments
- § 29.1-101.6. Loans to owners other than local governments
- § 29.1-101.7. Security for loans
- § 29.1-101.8. Grants and loans for dams licensed under or by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- § 29.1-101.9. Requirement for fishways
- § 29.1-102. Board of Wildlife Resources; how constituted; meetings
- § 29.1-103. Powers and duties of the Board
- § 29.1-103.1. Control and eradication of wildlife diseases; Board authorized to promulgate regulations
- § 29.1-103.2. Assent to wildlife restoration projects and sport fishing restoration and management projects
- § 29.1-104. Acceptance of gifts, etc
- § 29.1-105. Lease or contract respecting land or buildings
- § 29.1-106. Forest and watershed areas
- § 29.1-107. Rules and regulations
- § 29.1-108. Audits and examinations
- § 29.1-109. Department of Wildlife Resources; Director
- § 29.1-110. Disbursements, accounts for Department; Board
- § 29.1-111. Sale of timber; portion of proceeds to be paid to locality
- § 29.1-112. Payment of license and permit fees
- § 29.1-113. Admittance, parking, and use at certain Department-owned facilities or Department-leased land; civil penalty
- § 29.1-114. Hunting from aircraft feral hogs
- § 29.1-200. Appointment of conservation police officers
- § 29.1-201. Bond
- § 29.1-202. Ex officio conservation police officers
- § 29.1-203. Jurisdiction; power to serve process
- § 29.1-204. Assisting the Director; supervision
- § 29.1-205. Power to make arrests
- § 29.1-206. Reserved
- § 29.1-207. Impeding conservation police officer, etc., in discharge of his duty
- § 29.1-208. Searches and seizures
- § 29.1-209. Inspection of game and fish without arrest
- § 29.1-210. Person arrested may be committed to jail, bailed, recognized or summoned
- § 29.1-211. Reserved
- § 29.1-212. Precaution against fire
- § 29.1-213. Taking samples of water believed to be polluted
- § 29.1-214. Duties of State Water Control Board with respect to water samples
- § 29.1-215. Reserved
- § 29.1-217. Special conservation police officers receiving no compensation from Commonwealth
- § 29.1-218. Defense of conservation police officer prosecuted on criminal charge
- § 29.1-300. Unlawful to hunt, trap or fish without license
- § 29.1-300.1. Certification of competence in hunter education; incentives
- § 29.1-300.2. Hunter education program
- § 29.1-300.3. Program fees
- § 29.1-300.4. Apprentice hunting license; deferral of hunter education
- § 29.1-301. Exemptions from license requirements
- § 29.1-302. Special license for certain resident disabled veterans
- § 29.1-302.01. Special fishing license for disabled active duty military personnel
- § 29.1-302.02. Special resident and nonresident hunting and fishing licenses for partially disabled veterans
- § 29.1-302.03. Special licenses for certain nonresident disabled veterans
- § 29.1-302.1. Special lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents
- § 29.1-302.2. Special lifetime fishing license; permanently disabled persons
- § 29.1-302.3. Special guest fishing licenses
- § 29.1-302.4. Special lifetime trout fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents
- § 29.1-303. Fees to hunt
- § 29.1-303.1. Trip hunting licenses
- § 29.1-303.2. State junior resident hunting license fee
- § 29.1-303.2:1. State junior resident bear hunting license; fee
- § 29.1-303.3. Youth resident and nonresident combination hunting license established; fee
- § 29.1-304. Nonresident license to hunt within shooting preserves and foxhound training preserves
- § 29.1-305. Special license for hunting bear, deer and turkey; authority of Board to create bear license
- § 29.1-305.01. Special license to hunt elk; authority of Board to create elk license and quota hunts
- § 29.1-305.1. Bonus deer permits
- § 29.1-305.2. Special fox hunting licenses
- § 29.1-306. Special archery license, slingbow license, and crossbow license
- § 29.1-306.1. Repealed
- § 29.1-307. Special muzzleloading license
- § 29.1-308. Reserved
- § 29.1-309. Fees to trap
- § 29.1-309.1. Special lifetime trapping license; permanently disabled persons and disabled veterans
- § 29.1-309.2. Special lifetime trapping license for senior citizens
- § 29.1-309.3. State junior resident trapping license established; fee
- § 29.1-310. Fees to fish
- § 29.1-310.1. Sportsman's hunting and fishing license established
- § 29.1-310.2. Special combined individual sportfishing licenses
- § 29.1-311. Trip fishing license for residents and nonresidents; trout stocked waters
- § 29.1-312. Special fishing or hunting permits for certain veterans
- § 29.1-313. Issuance of licenses for use of individuals in certain state facilities
- § 29.1-314. Special fishing permits for certain individuals with disabilities
- § 29.1-315. Special fishing permits for certain school classes
- § 29.1-315.1. Special permit to hunt and fish by youth during fish and wildlife education events
- § 29.1-316. Special fishing permits for certain youth camps
- § 29.1-317. Special fishing permits for certain juveniles
- § 29.1-318. Board may charge use fees for fishing in certain waters
- § 29.1-319. Persons entitled to county, city, or state resident licenses
- § 29.1-320. Reserved
- § 29.1-321. Nonresident required to buy nonresident license
- § 29.1-322. Residents of counties bordering on streams
- § 29.1-323. By whom licenses issued
- § 29.1-324. Reserved
- § 29.1-325. Evidence that applicant entitled to license
- § 29.1-326. Reserved
- § 29.1-327. Agents for sale of licenses and permits; sales by telephone and electronic media
- § 29.1-328. Term of licenses and permits; multiple-year license
- § 29.1-329. Reserved
- § 29.1-330. Delivery to clerk or agent; return of unused annually expiring materials and unsold licenses; voluntary contributions
- § 29.1-331. Licenses to be dated, numbered and authenticated
- § 29.1-332. License and permit receipts; compensation for issuing; sums to be credited to game protection fund
- § 29.1-333. Reports to Director as to sale of licenses
- § 29.1-334. Certificate when license lost or destroyed
- § 29.1-335. Hunting, trapping or fishing without a license
- § 29.1-336. Carrying licenses and certificates; penalty
- § 29.1-337. Displaying license upon request
- § 29.1-337.1. Penalty for false statements; altering, borrowing or lending license
- § 29.1-338. Revocation of license and privileges; penalties
- § 29.1-339. Complimentary licenses
- § 29.1-339.1. Repealed
- § 29.1-339.2. Establishment of Virginia Migratory Waterfowl Conservation Stamp; required
- § 29.1-340. Hunting waterfowl from unlicensed blinds and without season license
- § 29.1-341. Stationary blinds defined
- § 29.1-341.1. Number of stationary blinds permitted; when erected
- § 29.1-342. Floating blinds
- § 29.1-342.1. Waterfowl blinds in locality where bird hunting with firearms prohibited
- § 29.1-343. Fees for waterfowl blind licenses
- § 29.1-344. Stationary blinds on shore and in the public waters for owners of riparian rights
- § 29.1-344.1. Stationary duck blind license; riparian landowners exempted
- § 29.1-344.2. Time period for obtaining riparian stationary blind licenses
- § 29.1-345. Stationary blinds in the public waters for nonriparian owners
- § 29.1-345.1. Time period for obtaining nonriparian stationary blind licenses
- § 29.1-345.2. Damaged stationary blinds in Virginia Beach; civil penalty
- § 29.1-346. When license for floating blinds issued; distance from stationary blinds
- § 29.1-347. Renewing licenses
- § 29.1-348. Obtaining licenses
- § 29.1-349. Hunting, erecting blind within 500 yards of licensed blind
- § 29.1-350. Exemption from application of article
- § 29.1-350.1. Permits for waterfowl blinds in Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authorities
- § 29.1-351. Regulations to be issued; present regulations continued in force
- § 29.1-351.1. Penalty for violations
- § 29.1-352. Damage stamp program established; purpose; intent
- § 29.1-353. Local governing body to adopt ordinance
- § 29.1-354. Stamps required; issuance; fee; affixing stamps; cancellation
- § 29.1-355. Disposition of funds
- § 29.1-356. Reporting damages; filing and adjudicating claims
- § 29.1-357. Civil action required
- § 29.1-358. Localities to report claims and reimbursements
- § 29.1-400. Unlawful to deal in furs without a permit
- § 29.1-401. Exemptions as to fur permits
- § 29.1-402. Permit fees to deal in furs; permit issuance
- § 29.1-403. Term of permits; application
- § 29.1-404. Qualifications of permittee
- § 29.1-405. Reports of permittees
- § 29.1-406. Penalty for violations
- § 29.1-407. Forfeiture of furs
- § 29.1-408. Permit required; exceptions
- § 29.1-409. From whom permits obtained; fee
- § 29.1-410. Disposition of funds
- § 29.1-411. Cooperative agreement
- § 29.1-412. Permits required
- § 29.1-413. Issuance discretionary, duration
- § 29.1-414. Reserved
- § 29.1-415. Taxidermy; sale of specimens
- § 29.1-416. Netting fish
- § 29.1-416.1. Use of eel pots in the waters of Back Bay and its tributaries
- § 29.1-417. Capturing, holding, propagating, and disposing of wildlife for authorized purposes
- § 29.1-418. Collecting specimens
- § 29.1-419. Taking or holding of falcons, hawks and owls; use to hunt wild game
- § 29.1-420. From whom permits obtained
- § 29.1-421. Reserved
- § 29.1-422. Permits for field trials
- § 29.1-500. Reserved
- § 29.1-501. Promulgation of regulations; publication of proposed regulations or change therein; validation; evidentiary nature of publication
- § 29.1-502. Adoption of regulations
- § 29.1-503. Repealed
- § 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 and waters owned or controlled by Board
- § 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, etc
- § 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 bear, deer, or turkey
- § 29.1-516.2. Hunting with dogs; dogs to wear tags
- § 29.1-517. Trapping and shooting of fur-bearing animals during closed season
- § 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; exception; penalty
- § 29.1-521.1. Willfully impeding hunting or trapping; penalty
- § 29.1-521.2. Violation of § 18.2-286 while hunting; revocation of license and privileges
- § 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
- § 29.1-525.2. Fox and coyote enclosures prohibited; 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 regional parks
- § 29.1-527.1. Localities may prohibit feeding of migratory and nonmigratory waterfowl
- § 29.1-527.2. Localities may prohibit feeding of deer
- § 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
- § 29.1-528.2. Local tree stand ordinance; disabled hunter exempt
- § 29.1-529. Killing of deer, elk or bear damaging fruit trees, crops, livestock, or personal property; wildlife creating a hazard to aircraft or motor vehicles
- § 29.1-530. Open and closed season for trapping, bag limits, etc
- § 29.1-530.1. Solid blaze orange or solid blaze pink 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. Reserved
- § 29.1-539. Claiming deer, bear, turkey, or elk struck by motor vehicle
- § 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
- § 29.1-543.1. Introduction, stocking, and release of blue catfish; penalty
- § 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
- § 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
- § 29.1-553.1. Penalty for wanton waste
- § 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. Reserved
- § 29.1-556. Unlawful devices to be destroyed
- § 29.1-556.1. Release of certain balloons prohibited; civil penalty; community service
- § 29.1-557. Confiscation of wild birds and animals under certain circumstances; disposition
- § 29.1-558. Reserved
- § 29.1-561. Self-incrimination
- § 29.1-562. Reserved
- § 29.1-563. Definitions
- § 29.1-564. Taking, transportation, sale, etc., of endangered species prohibited
- § 29.1-565. Reserved
- § 29.1-566. Regulations
- § 29.1-567. Penalties; authority of conservation police officers and police officers; disposition of property seized
- § 29.1-568. When Board may permit taking of endangered or threatened species; designated experimental populations
- § 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
- § 29.1-576.1. Zebra mussels; education program
- § 29.1-577. Penalties
- § 29.1-578. Definitions
- § 29.1-579. Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; adoption
- § 29.1-600. Licenses for shooting preserves
- § 29.1-600.1. Board to promulgate regulations
- § 29.1-601. Applicant to own or have land under lease; boundaries
- § 29.1-602. Applicant to develop land, release game and comply with other provisions
- § 29.1-603. No taking of game before compliance with requirements of Board
- § 29.1-604. Hunting, etc., after compliance with requirements
- § 29.1-605. Reserved
- § 29.1-606. Seals to be attached to shot game; penalty
- § 29.1-607. Hunting season and bag limit
- § 29.1-608. Repealed
- § 29.1-609. Revocation of license
- § 29.1-610. Portion of James River a no-hunting area
- § 29.1-611. Penalty for violations
- § 29.1-612. Preserves, private clubs, associations
- § 29.1-700. Definitions
- § 29.1-701. Department to administer chapter; Motorboat Committee; funds for administration; records; rules and regulations
- § 29.1-701.1. Authority of Board to set fees
- § 29.1-702. Registration requirements; display of numbers; cancellation of certificate; exemption
- § 29.1-702.1. Making false affidavit or swearing falsely, perjury; penalty
- § 29.1-703. Identification numbers required; decals
- § 29.1-703.1. Temporary registration certificate; fee; application
- § 29.1-703.2. Designation of agents; compensation to agents; deposit of temporary registration certificate moneys
- § 29.1-704. Recording previously awarded numbers
- § 29.1-705. Change of ownership of motorboat; lost certificates
- § 29.1-706. Agents awarding numbers
- § 29.1-707. Records
- § 29.1-708. Transfer, destruction or abandonment of motorboat
- § 29.1-709. Change of address of certificate holder
- § 29.1-710. Exemption from numbering requirements
- § 29.1-711. Dealers and manufacturers of motorboats
- § 29.1-712. Repealed
- § 29.1-733.2. Definitions
- § 29.1-733.3. Applicability