12103431D
HOUSE BILL NO. 719
Offered January 11, 2012
Prefiled January 11, 2012
A BILL to amend and reenact § 29.1-302 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to special license for disabled veterans to hunt and fish.
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Patron-- Yancey
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Committee Referral Pending
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 29.1-302 of the Code of Virginia is
amended and reenacted as follows:
§29.1-302. Special license for certain resident disabled
veterans.
Any resident veteran who has
a permanent and total service-connected disability is totally and
permanently disabled due to a service-connected
disability
as certified by the Veterans'
Administration, upon certification and payment of a five-dollar
fee, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs may apply for and receive
purchase from the Department a
nontransferable discounted license pursuant to 4 VAC 15-20-65, valid for life,
permitting the veteran to hunt and freshwater fish, or to hunt
only or to
freshwater fish only, depending on which license is
purchased, on any property in the Commonwealth according to
restrictions and regulations of law. However, this license shall not entitle
the owner to fish in designated waters stocked with trout by the Department or
other public body. The Board may subsequently revise the cost of the fee
pursuant to §29.1-103.
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