Sunday, July 20, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB32: Fighting of cocks and other animals; increases penalty.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 3.1-796.125 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 3.1-796.125. Fighting cocks or other animals; attendance at fighting; penalty.
A. Any person engaging in the fighting of cocks or other
animals, except dogs, for money, prize or
anything of value, or betting or wagering money or anything of value on the
result of such fight, shall be is guilty
of a Class 3 1 misdemeanor.
B. Any person who possesses, owns, trains, or sells cocks or other animals, except dogs, for the purpose of fighting is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
C. Attendance at the fighting of cocks
or other animals, except dogs, where
an admission fee is charged, directly or indirectly, shall
constitute a Class 3 misdemeanor.
CD.
Attendance at an exhibition of the fighting of dogs shall constitute a Class 1
misdemeanor.
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