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HOUSE BILL NO. 2125 Offered January 23, 1995 A BILL to amend and reenact § 29.1-306 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disabled hunters hunting with crossbows. ---------- Patrons--Baker, Abbitt and Parrish ---------- Referred to Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29.1-306 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 29.1-306. Special archery license; disabled hunters.

A. There shall be a license for hunting with a bow and arrow during the special archery seasons, which will be in addition to the license required to hunt small game. The fee for the special license shall be twelve dollars for a resident and twenty-five dollars for a nonresident.

The special archery license may be obtained from the clerk or agent of any county or city whose duty it is to sell licenses.

B. The Board shall promulgate regulations which allow persons, whose physical disabilities prevent them from hunting with conventional archery equipment, to hunt with crossbows on (i) their own property, (ii) property they lease, or (iii) other private property, with the written permission of the landowner.