Thursday, August 21, 2008
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HB5: Trout fishing; Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue special permits for handicapped.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 29.1-314 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 29.1-314. Special fishing permits for certain handicapped persons.
A. Upon receipt of an application from an officer or
designated representative of any organized group of physically or mentally
handicapped persons who meet on a regular basis, including students at schools
for the blind or deaf, the Director may issue not more than two permits of one
day each, in any calendar year, to such group to fish without licenses in
public waters open to fishing. The permits shall not be issued for use in
designated waters stocked with trout or in waters where a daily fishing fee has
been imposed pursuant to § 29.1-318; however, a permit shall be issued to such group to
fish without licenses on the second Saturday
of May in designated waters
stocked with trout.
B. The application for the permit shall state the name and description of the group, the date upon which it will be used, the general area in which it will be used, and the name of the person or organization responsible for the group.
2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.
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