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2020 SESSION

20101445D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1470
Offered January 8, 2020
Prefiled January 8, 2020
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 29.1-528.3, relating to firearms ordinances; property located in multiple localities.
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Patron-- Head
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Referred to Committee on Public Safety
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 29.1-528.3 as follows:

§ 29.1-528.3. Firearms ordinances; property in multiple localities.

When one or more contiguous parcels of land owned by a particular landowner span two or more localities whose firearms ordinances differ, the landowner may elect to have the firearms ordinances of the locality in which the largest portion of the contiguous parcel of land lies to apply to anyone hunting on any portion of the property, and shall notify the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries of such election.

2. That the provisions of this act shall satisfy the reenactment requirement of Chapter 830 of the Acts of Assembly of 2019.