Code of Virginia - Title 29.1 Game, Inland Fisheries And Boating - Chapter 3 Licenses

29.1-300 Unlawful to hunt, trap or fish without license
It shall be unlawful to hunt, trap or fish in or on the lands or inland waters of this Commonwealth without first obtaining a license, ...
29.1-300.1 Certification of competence in hunter education
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section and § 29.1-300.4, no hunting license shall be issued to (i) a person who has ...
29.1-300.2 Hunter education program
The Department shall provide for a course of instruction in hunter safety, principles of conservation, and sportsmanship, and for this purpose may cooperate with any ...
29.1-300.3 Program fees
No fee shall be charged for the instructor's service; however, a fee to cover the cost of giving such instruction may be charged each person ...
29.1-300.4 Apprentice hunting license; deferral of hunter education.
A. There is hereby established an apprentice hunting license. The license shall be a one-time nonrenewable license that shall be valid for two years from ...
29.1-301 Exemptions from license requirements
A. No license shall be required of landowners, their spouses, their children and grandchildren and the spouses of such children and grandchildren, or the landowner's ...
29.1-302 Special license for certain resident disabled veterans
Any resident veteran who has a permanent and total service-connected disability as certified by the Veterans' Administration, upon certification and payment of a five-dollar fee, ...
29.1-302.1 Special lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents
A. Any resident or nonresident individual may apply for and receive from the Department, after payment of the appropriate fee, any of the following lifetime ...
29.1-302.2 Special lifetime fishing license; permanently disabled persons
Any resident who is permanently disabled, as defined in § 58.1-3217, who applies for a special lifetime state resident fishing license shall receive such a ...
29.1-302.3 Special guest fishing licenses
An owner or bona fide lessee of private land bordering inland waters lying adjacent to North Carolina land or water may apply for a special ...
29.1-302.4 Special lifetime trout fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents
A. Any resident or nonresident individual may apply for and receive from the Department, after payment of the appropriate fee, any of the following lifetime ...
29.1-303 Fees to hunt
The license fees to hunt shall be as follows: 1. County or city resident license to hunt in the county or city of residence only, ...
29.1-303.1 Three-day nonresident hunting licenses
Nonresidents of the Commonwealth may purchase a three-day hunting license in lieu of the nonresident hunting license required by subdivision 3 of § 29.1-303. The ...
29.1-303.2 State junior resident hunting license fee
The fee for a license to hunt in all counties and cities of the Commonwealth, issued to a state resident under the age of sixteen, ...
29.1-303.3 Youth resident and nonresident combination hunting license established; fee
There is hereby established a state youth resident combination hunting license, which may be obtained by any resident under the age of 16 to hunt ...
29.1-304 Nonresident license to hunt within shooting preserves
Licenses are required for nonresidents of the Commonwealth to hunt within the boundaries of shooting preserves licensed under the provisions of Chapter 6 of this ...
29.1-305 Special license for hunting bear, deer and turkey; authority of Board to create bear licens...
A. A special license is required for hunting bear, deer and turkey in this Commonwealth, which shall be in addition to the license required to ...
29.1-305.1 Bonus deer permits
The Board shall establish by regulation a procedure for selling bonus deer permits. Each bonus deer permit purchased shall entitle the holder thereof to take ...
29.1-306 Special archery license
There shall be a license for hunting with a bow and arrow, excluding crossbows, during the special archery seasons, which shall be in addition to ...
29.1-306.1 Board to create special crossbow license
The Board may create a separate license for hunting with a crossbow. The fee for this special license shall not be greater than one and ...
29.1-307 Special muzzleloading license
There shall be a license for hunting with a muzzleloader during the special muzzleloading seasons, which shall be in addition to the license required to ...
29.1-308 Description unavailable
Reserved. ...
29.1-309 Fees to trap
The license fee to trap shall be as follows: 1. County or city resident license, ten dollars. 2. State resident license, thirty-five dollars. 3. State ...
29.1-309.1 Special lifetime trapping license; permanently disabled persons and disabled veterans
Any resident who is (i) a veteran with a permanent and total service-connected disability as certified by the Veterans' Administration or (ii) permanently disabled, as ...
29.1-309.2 Special lifetime trapping license for senior citizens
Any resident who is 65 years of age or older may apply for and receive from the Department, for a fee of $10, a special ...
29.1-309.3 State junior resident trapping license established; fee.
There is hereby established a state youth resident trapping license, which may be obtained by any resident under the age of 16, to trap in ...
29.1-310 Fees to fish
A. The license fees to fish, which licenses shall not permit fishing for trout in waters stocked by the Department, shall be as follows: 1. ...
29.1-310.1 Sportsman's hunting and fishing license established
A. Upon implementation of an automated point-of-sale licensing system, any resident individual may apply for and receive from the Department, after payment of the appropriate ...
29.1-310.2 Special combined individual sportfishing licenses
Residents and nonresidents of the Commonwealth may obtain a special combined sportfishing license to fish in all inland waters and the tidal waters of the ...
29.1-311 Trip fishing license for residents and nonresidents; trout stocked waters
A. Residents and nonresidents of the Commonwealth may obtain trip fishing licenses to fish in the freshwater creeks, bays, inlets and streams of the Commonwealth, ...
29.1-312 Special fishing permits for certain veterans
Upon application received from the director or other comparable official representing any veterans hospital or other military hospital in Virginia, any adjoining state, or the ...
29.1-313 Issuance of licenses for use of patients in certain state institutions
The Director shall have authority to issue at the regular fee, up to twenty-five state resident licenses to fish in the name of any state ...
29.1-314 Special fishing permits for certain handicapped persons
A. Upon receipt of an application from an officer or designated representative of any organized group of physically or mentally handicapped persons who meet on ...
29.1-315 Special fishing permits for certain school classes
A. Upon receipt of an application from a qualified instructor, the Director may issue a special permit to the instructor authorizing the class described in ...
29.1-316 Special fishing permits for certain youth camps
A. Upon receipt of an application from an officer or designated representative of any organized nonprofit tax-exempt youth camp, the Director shall issue a permit ...
29.1-317 Special fishing permits for certain juveniles
A. Upon application from the superintendent of any juvenile correctional center maintained and operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Director may issue a ...
29.1-318 Board may charge use fees for fishing in certain waters
In addition to the license fees provided for elsewhere in this chapter, the Board may impose daily use fees, not to exceed three dollars and ...
29.1-319 Persons entitled to county, city or state resident licenses
The following persons shall be entitled to a state resident license or to a county or a city license to hunt, trap or fish provided ...
29.1-320 Description unavailable
Reserved. ...
29.1-321 Nonresident required to buy nonresident license
Nonresidents of this Commonwealth shall be required, except as otherwise provided, to obtain a nonresident license to hunt, trap or fish. (Code 1950, § 29-59; ...
29.1-322 Residents of counties bordering on streams
The residents of counties bordering a nontidal stream shall have the right to hunt, trap and fish when not otherwise prohibited by law or regulation ...
29.1-323 By whom licenses issued
The clerks of the circuit courts of cities, and such agents operating in Virginia cities as the Board may designate, shall issue state and city ...
29.1-324 Description unavailable
Reserved. ...
29.1-325 Evidence that applicant entitled to license
The clerk or agent shall require any applicant to make affidavit or to furnish other satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the license applied ...
29.1-326 Description unavailable
Reserved. ...
29.1-327 Agents for sale of licenses and permits; sales by telephone and electronic media
A. The Board shall have authority to appoint agents operating in and outside of Virginia for the issuance and sale of any or all of ...
29.1-328 Term of licenses and permits
A. Until the Department has implemented an automated point-of-sale licensing system, hunting and trapping licenses and permits, including those issued pursuant to § 29.1-302, shall ...
29.1-329 Description unavailable
Reserved. ...
29.1-330 Delivery to clerk or agent; return of unused annually expiring materials and unsold licenses; volun...
A. The Director shall send to each clerk or agent before the first day of the license year as many annually expiring licensing materials and ...
29.1-331 Licenses to be dated, numbered and authenticated
All licenses shall be dated, numbered, and authenticated by the clerk or agent by his signature or in such other manner as prescribed by the ...
29.1-332 License and permit receipts; compensation for issuing; sums to be credited to game protection fun...
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 2.2-1802, the money received for licenses and permits issued under this title shall be paid by each clerk or ...
29.1-333 Reports to Director as to sale of licenses
A. When remitting license and permit receipts, each clerk or agent shall make a report to the Director, in a manner prescribed by the Director, ...
29.1-334 Certificate when license lost or destroyed
If a license, other than a license issued by electronic means or a temporary license as described in § 29.1-335, is lost or destroyed, the ...
29.1-335 Hunting, trapping or fishing without a license
No person shall hunt, trap, or fish without having obtained a license when such a license is required. For the purposes of this article, the ...
29.1-336 Carrying licenses and certificates; penalty
A. Every person who is issued a hunting, trapping, or fishing license shall carry the license on his person while hunting, trapping, or fishing. Persons ...
29.1-337 Displaying license upon request
A. Every person who is issued a hunting, trapping or fishing license and is carrying such a license when hunting, trapping or fishing shall present ...
29.1-337.1 Penalty for false statements; altering, borrowing or lending license
It shall be unlawful for any person to make a false statement in order to secure a license or to alter, change, borrow, or lend ...
29.1-338 Revocation of license; penalties
If any person is found guilty of violating (i) any of the provisions of the hunting, trapping, or inland fish laws, any provisions of §§ ...
29.1-339 Complimentary licenses
The Director is authorized to issue complimentary hunting licenses and complimentary fishing licenses to the field inspectors of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ...
29.1-339.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2005, c. 127, cl. 2. ...
29.1-339.2 Establishment of Virginia Migratory Waterfowl Conservation Stamp; required
A. No person shall hunt or take any migratory waterfowl within the Commonwealth without first obtaining a Virginia Migratory Waterfowl Conservation Stamp. Every person who ...
29.1-340 Hunting waterfowl from unlicensed blinds and without season license
It shall be unlawful to hunt migratory waterfowl on the public waters and shores east of Interstate Route 95 in the Commonwealth from unlicensed stationary ...
29.1-341 Stationary blinds defined
For the purposes of this article, a stationary blind means a structure erected at a fixed location either on the shores of the public waters ...
29.1-341.1 Number of stationary blinds permitted; when erected
Clubs or individuals who do not own riparian rights shall be permitted to license no more than two stationary blinds in the public waters in ...
29.1-342 Floating blinds
Floating blinds shall mean floating blinds permitted by law in the public waters. They may be used in any position in public waters at different ...
29.1-343 Fees for waterfowl blind licenses
The fees for waterfowl blind licenses shall be as follows: 1. For a stationary blind erected in the public waters or on the shores of ...
29.1-344 Stationary blinds on shore and in the public waters for owners of riparian rights
Each year, the owners of riparian rights, their lessees or permittees shall have the exclusive privilege of licensing and erecting stationary blinds on their shoreline, ...
29.1-344.1 Stationary duck blind license; riparian landowners exempted
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 29.1-340, the owners of riparian rights or their invitees shall not be required to obtain a stationary blind license when ...
29.1-345 Stationary blinds in the public waters for nonriparian owners
Unless a license has been obtained pursuant to § 29.1-344, and a stake or a blind has been erected and marked within the time stated ...
29.1-346 When license for floating blinds issued; distance from stationary blinds
Licenses for floating blinds permitted by law, in the public waters, may be obtained on and after July 1. Floating blinds shall have a license ...
29.1-347 Renewing licenses
The holders of licenses first issued under this article may renew the same privileges each succeeding year by licensing within the time required and placing ...
29.1-348 Obtaining licenses
All applications for blind licenses under this article shall be made to the local license agent or clerk of the circuit court of the county ...
29.1-349 Hunting, erecting blind within 500 yards of licensed blind
A. No person shall hunt or shoot migratory waterfowl in the public waters of this Commonwealth from a boat, float, raft or other buoyant craft ...
29.1-350 Exemption from application of article
The provisions of this article shall not apply to the shores and public waters and marshes of Accomack and Northampton Counties. However, in those localities ...
29.1-351 Regulations to be issued; present regulations continued in force
The Board shall have the power to amend or alter the provisions of this article by regulation prescribing a distance less than 500 yards between ...
29.1-351.1 Penalty for violations
Unless otherwise specified, any person who violates any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (Code 1950, § ...
29.1-352 Damage stamp program established; purpose; intent
There is hereby established a damage stamp program to provide for an available source of funds to be used to compensate damage to crops, fruit ...
29.1-353 Local governing body to adopt ordinance
A. Any local governing body may adopt an ordinance consistent with the provisions of this article for the purpose of establishing a damage stamp program. ...
29.1-354 Stamps required; issuance; fee; affixing stamps; cancellation
It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt bear, deer or elk in any locality adopting a damage stamp ordinance within the Commonwealth without ...
29.1-355 Disposition of funds
All moneys received from the sale of the special stamps shall be paid into the local treasury to the credit of a special damage stamp ...
29.1-356 Reporting damages; filing and adjudicating claims
Any person suffering damage pursuant to the provisions of this article shall report the damage to a locally designated official whose duty it shall be ...
29.1-357 Civil action required
In any instance in which compensable damage is alleged to have been caused by an individual hunter whose whereabouts are known and when it is ...
29.1-358 Localities to report claims and reimbursements
Any locality establishing a damage stamp program pursuant to the provisions of this article, including those localities previously authorized to adopt such an ordinance prior ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009