Bill Text: VA SB99 | 2018 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Hunting dogs; release of dogs near highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-17 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (4-Y 11-N) [SB99 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2018-SB99-Comm_Sub.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 99 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice on January 17, 2018) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Marsden) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-132.2, relating to release of hunting dogs on a highway; penalty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-132.2 as follows:

§18.2-132.2. Release of hunting dogs on highway; penalty.

Any person who intentionally releases one or more hunting dogs on or within 15 feet of a highway, as defined in §46.2-100, for purposes of hunting game is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor, unless the release of such dogs occurs on or within 15 feet of a highway that is adjacent to property whose landowner, or whose landowner's agent, has given the person releasing such dogs permission to hunt.  A second or subsequent violation of this section within three years is a Class 1 misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, the court shall revoke such person's hunting license for a period of one year.