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1998 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 28.2-539 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 28.2-539. Inspection tax.
All licensed oyster buyers, planters, packers, importers of shucking stock or
shippers shall pay to the Commissioner an inspection tax of three cents for
each bushel of oysters taken, caught, imported, or purchased. However, the tax
shall not be imposed on those oysters which are to be replanted in the waters
of the Commonwealth, and the tax shall not be imposed for the period from July
1, 1994, until July 1, 1998 2000. The proceeds from this
tax shall be paid into the general fund of the state treasury.