Virginia StatutesTitle 29.1 - GAME, INLAND FISHERIES AND BOATING.
- Chapter 1 - Administration of Game and Inland Fisheries (29.1-100 thru 29.1-113)
- Chapter 2 - Conservation Police Officers (29.1-200 thru 29.1-218)
- Chapter 3 - Licenses (29.1-300 thru 29.1-358)
- Chapter 4 - Permits Required (29.1-400 thru 29.1-422)
- Chapter 5 - Wildlife and Fish Laws (29.1-500 thru 29.1-577)
- 29.1-500 - Description unavailable
- 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 - Description unavailable
- 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.
- 29.1-517 - Fur-bearing animals.
- 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; forfeiture of certain weapons; 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.
- 29.1-526 - 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.
- 29.1-528 - 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.
- 29.1-529 - Killing of deer 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 - Blaze orange 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 - Description unavailable
- 29.1-539 - Keeping deer or bear struck by motor vehicle; procedure to be followed by driver.
- 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.
- 29.1-544 - 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; confiscation of watercraft and weapons used.
- 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.
- 29.1-554 - Violation of sanctuaries, refuges, preserves and water used for propagation.
- 29.1-554.1 - Impeding lawful fishing in inland waters; penalty.
- 29.1-555 - Description unavailable
- 29.1-556 - Unlawful devices to be destroyed.
- 29.1-556.1 - Release of certain balloons prohibited; civil penalty.
- 29.1-557 - Confiscation of wild birds and animals under certain circumstances; disposition.
- 29.1-558 - through 29.1-560
- 29.1-561 - Self-incrimination.
- 29.1-562 - Description unavailable
- 29.1-563 - Definitions.
- 29.1-564 - Taking, transportation, sale, etc., of endangered species prohibited.
- 29.1-565 - Description unavailable
- 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, etc., of endangered species.
- 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.
- 29.1-577 - Penalties.
- Chapter 6 - Preserves and Sanctuaries (29.1-600 thru 29.1-612)
- Chapter 7 - Boating Laws (29.1-700 thru 29.1-750)
- 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 - Definitions.
- 29.1-713 - Who must or may apply for certificate of title; authority of employees of Department.
- 29.1-714 - Form and contents of application.
- 29.1-715 - Notice by owner of change of address.
- 29.1-716 - Certificate of title prerequisite to issuance of certificate of number.
- 29.1-717 - Certificate of title required; certificate as evidence; duration; transfer of title.
- 29.1-717.1 - Transfer when certificate of title lost, etc.
- 29.1-717.2 - Transfer by operation of law.
- 29.1-717.3 - Transfer of title when no qualification on estate.
- 29.1-718 - Department's records; fees; exemption.
- 29.1-719 - Acquisition of watercraft by dealer.
- 29.1-720 - Transfer to or from dealer; manufacturer's or importer's certificate.
- 29.1-721 - Dealer's records.
- 29.1-722 - Duplicate certificate of title.
- 29.1-723 - Certificate to show security interests.
- 29.1-724 - Security interests subsequently created.
- 29.1-725 - Certificate as notice of security interest.
- 29.1-726 - Security interest may be filed within thirty days after purchase.
- 29.1-727 - Priority of security interests shown on certificates.
- 29.1-728 - Who to hold certificate of title subject to security interest.
- 29.1-729 - Release of security interests shown on certificate of title.
- 29.1-730 - Surrender of certificate required when security interest paid.
- 29.1-731 - Levy of execution, etc.
- 29.1-732 - Possession of certificate of title issued to another unlawful.
- 29.1-733 - Registration prima facie evidence of ownership; rebuttal.
- 29.1-733.1 - Acquiring title to an abandoned vessel.
- 29.1-734 - Authorization for and placing of markers in waters of the Commonwealth used for public swimming areas; no motorboating, waterskiing in marked area.
- 29.1-734.1 - Skin and scuba divers.
- 29.1-735 - Regulations for vessel operation and equipment.
- 29.1-735.1 - Board authorized to promulgate regulations for seaplanes.
- 29.1-735.2 - Boating safety education required; Board to promulgate regulations.
- 29.1-735.3 - Regulation of parasail operators.
- 29.1-736 - Boat rentals; equipment; safety course.
- 29.1-737 - Muffling devices.
- 29.1-738 - Operating boat or manipulating water skis, etc., in reckless manner or while intoxicated, etc.
- 29.1-738.01 - Operating boat in an improper manner; penalty.
- 29.1-738.02 - Persons under age twenty-one operating watercraft after illegally consuming alcohol; penalty.
- 29.1-738.03 - Reckless operation of a personal watercraft.
- 29.1-738.1 - Analysis of breath to determine alcohol content of blood.
- 29.1-738.2 - Consent to blood or breath test.
- 29.1-738.3 - Presumptions from alcohol or drug content.
- 29.1-738.4 - Additional penalty for reckless or intoxicated operation of a watercraft or motorboat.
- 29.1-738.5 - Participation in rehabilitation program.
- 29.1-738.6 - When arrested person operating a vessel; how vessel removed from scene of arrest.
- 29.1-739 - Duty of operator involved in collision, accident or other casualty; immunity from liability; report of collision, etc.; summons in lieu of arrest.
- 29.1-739.1 - Disregarding signal by law-enforcement officer to stop; attempts to elude; penalty.
- 29.1-739.2 - Conservation police officers to patrol lakes.
- 29.1-740 - Duty to stop and render assistance; penalties for violations.
- 29.1-741 - Furnishing information to agency of United States.
- 29.1-742 - Towing water skis, surfboards, etc.
- 29.1-743 - Description unavailable
- 29.1-744 - Local regulation; application for placement or removal of "no wake" buoys, etc.
- 29.1-744.1 - Description unavailable
- 29.1-744.2 - Description unavailable
- 29.1-744.3 - Slacken speed and control wakes near structures.
- 29.1-744.4 - Pass-through" zones; local ordinances; penalties.
- 29.1-745 - Enforcement of chapter; vessels displaying Coast Guard inspection decal.
- 29.1-746 - Penalties.
- 29.1-747 - Description unavailable
- 29.1-748 - Restrictions on operation; penalty.
- 29.1-748.1 - Minimum distance from shoreline; local ordinances; penalty.
- 29.1-749 - Owner of personal watercraft permitting violation; penalty.
- 29.1-749.1 - Identification of personal watercraft rentals.
- 29.1-749.2 - Local regulation of personal watercraft rentals; penalty.
- 29.1-749.3 - Personal watercraft instruction; rental agents.
- 29.1-750 - Exemptions.
- Chapter 8 - Watercraft Dealer Licensing Act (29.1-800 thru 29.1-829)
- 29.1-800 - Short title.
- 29.1-801 - Definitions.
- 29.1-802 - General powers of Board.
- 29.1-803 - Powers with respect to hearings, legal proceedings, witnesses, etc.
- 29.1-804 - Suit to enjoin violations.
- 29.1-805 - Regulations.
- 29.1-806 - Examination or audit of licensee; complaints; costs.
- 29.1-807 - Penalties.
- 29.1-808 - Licenses required.
- 29.1-808.1 - Boating safety education required.
- 29.1-809 - Application for license.
- 29.1-810 - Bond of dealer; right of action for fraudulent acts.
- 29.1-811 - Issuance, expiration and renewal of dealers' certificates of license.
- 29.1-812 - Supplemental licenses.
- 29.1-813 - License fees; additional to other licenses and fees required by law.
- 29.1-814 - Collection of license fees; appropriation; payments from fund.
- 29.1-815 - Locations to be specified, etc.; display of license; change of location.
- 29.1-816 - Advertisement.
- 29.1-817 - Lists of licensed salesmen.
- 29.1-818 - Licenses of salesmen, etc., to be carried, etc.; change of employer.
- 29.1-819 - Grounds for denying, suspending or revoking licenses.
- 29.1-820 - Action upon applications; hearing upon denial; denial for failure to have established place of business.
- 29.1-821 - Suspension, revocation and refusal to renew licenses; notice and hearing.
- 29.1-822 - Acts of officers, directors, partners and salesmen.
- 29.1-823 - Appeals from actions of the Director; generally.
- 29.1-824 - Appeals to Court of Appeals; bond.
- 29.1-825 - Equitable remedies not impaired.
- 29.1-826 - Installment sales.
- 29.1-827 - Prohibited solicitation and compensation.
- 29.1-828 - Definitions.
- 29.1-829 - Warranty work; dealers' requirements; performance of warranty work; disapproval of claims; indemnification.