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2015 SESSION
HB 1298 Noncommercial vessels; reasonable suspicion.
Introduced by: Rick L. Morris | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Noncommercial vessels; reasonable suspicion. Requires law-enforcement officers to have reasonable suspicion that a violation of law or regulation exists before stopping, boarding, or inspecting a noncommercial vessel on the navigable waters of the Commonwealth. The bill allows conservation police officers and Virginia Marine Police officers to (i) stop, board, and inspect in order to inspect hunting, fishing, or trapping licenses or creel and bag limits and (ii) conduct lawful boating safety checkpoints in accordance with established policies of the two agencies.
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Noncommercial vessels; reasonable suspicion. Requires law-enforcement officers to have reasonable suspicion that a violation of law or regulation exists before stopping, boarding, or inspecting a noncommercial vessel on the navigable waters of the Commonwealth. The bill allows conservation police officers and Virginia Marine Police officers to (i) stop, board, and inspect in order to inspect hunting, fishing, or trapping licenses or creel and bag limits and (ii) conduct lawful stops, boardings and inspections in accordance with established policies of the two agencies.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Noncommercial vessels; probable cause. Requires conservation police officers, Marine Resources Commission inspectors, and other law-enforcement officers to have probable cause before stopping, boarding, or inspecting a noncommercial vessel on the navigable waters of the Commonwealth.