Bill Text: VA HB719 | 2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Hunting and fishing license, special; permanently disabled veteran to apply and receive at no cost.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 27-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0380) [HB719 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2012-HB719-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 380 An Act to amend and reenact § 29.1-302 of the Code of Virginia, relating to special license for disabled veterans to hunt and fish. [H 719] Approved March 23, 2012

 

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 at no cost from the Department a nontransferable 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.