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2007 SESSION

074778118
HOUSE BILL NO. 2020
Offered January 10, 2007
Prefiled January 8, 2007
A BILL to amend and reenact § 29.1-328 of the Code of Virginia, relating to a change in the term of National Forest Stamps.
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Patron-- Shuler
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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 29.1-328 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 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 be valid from July 1 of each year or their later date of purchase, to June 30 of the following year, unless sooner revoked. Upon implementation of such a system, hunting and trapping licenses and permits shall be valid for one year from their date of purchase, except those licenses issued pursuant to § 29.1-305, which shall be valid from July 1 of each year or their later date of purchase, to June 30 of the following year, unless sooner revoked.

B. Until the Department has implemented an automated point-of-sale licensing system, fishing licenses shall run and be valid from January 1 of each year or their later date of purchase to December 31 of same year, unless sooner revoked. Upon implementation of such a system, fishing licenses shall run and be valid for one year from their date of purchase.

C. The terms of licenses listed in subsections A and B of this section shall not apply to the lifetime hunting and fishing license established in § 29.1-302.1.

D. National Forest Stamps, issued pursuant to § 29.1-408, shall be valid from January 1 of each year or their later date of purchase, to December 31 of the same year or from July 1 of each year or their later date of purchase, to June 30 of the following yearfor one year from their date of purchase, unless sooner revoked.