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CHAPTER 421 An Act to amend and reenact §§ 29.1-517 and 29.1-518 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the killing of beaver. [H 54] Approved April 12, 2004

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 29.1-517 and 29.1-518 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 29.1-517. Fur-bearing animals.

A landowner may shoot fur-bearing animals except beaver, muskrats or raccoons, upon his own land during closed season. When muskrats or raccoons are damaging crops or dams, the owner of the premises may kill them or have them killed under a permit obtained from the game warden.

§ 29.1-518. When killing of beaver permitted.

When beaver are substantially damaging crops or lands, the owner of the premises, his agent or tenant, may kill the animals, or have them killed, under a permit obtained from the game warden.