Bill Text: VA HB1411 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Reckless handling of firearms; revocation of hunting license.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684) [HB1411 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2011-HB1411-Enrolled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That § 18.2-56.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: § 18.2-56.1. Reckless handling of firearms; reckless handling while hunting. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to handle recklessly any firearm so as to endanger the life, limb or property of any person. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. B. If this section is violated while the person is engaged in
hunting, trapping or pursuing game, the trial judge may, in addition to the
penalty imposed by the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, revoke
such person's hunting or trapping license and privileges to hunt or trap while
possessing a firearm for a period C. Upon a revocation pursuant to subsection B hereof, the clerk of the court in which the case is tried pursuant to this section shall forthwith send to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (i) such person's revoked hunting or trapping license or notice that such person's privilege to hunt or trap while in possession of a firearm has been revoked and (ii) a notice of the length of revocation imposed. The Department shall keep a list which shall be furnished upon request to any law-enforcement officer, the attorney for the Commonwealth or court in this Commonwealth, and such list shall contain the names and addresses of all persons whose license or privilege to hunt or trap while in possession of a firearm has been revoked and the court which took such action. D. If any person whose license to hunt and trap, or whose
privilege to hunt and trap while in possession of a firearm, has been revoked
pursuant to this section, thereafter hunts or traps while in possession of a
firearm, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and, in addition to any
penalty imposed by the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, the
trial judge may revoke such person's hunting or trapping license and privileges
to hunt or trap while in possession of a firearm for |