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2005 SESSION
HB 2689 Duck blinds; allows use in certain localities and waters.
Introduced by: Albert C. Pollard, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Offshore blind stake sites; penalty. Gives the owners, their lessees or permittees of land that is adjacent to the waters in Stafford, Prince William, and Fairfax, the exclusive privilege of erecting stationary blinds on their shoreline. Under this bill, which amends a 1928 Act of Assembly, they are also given the prior right to erect stationary blinds in the waters in front of their property. However, they forfeit the privilege and the prior right if they do not erect the blind by November 1. This bill would increase the penalty to a Class 2 misdemeanor from the current fine of between $10 and $100 or confinement in jail for no more than a year, or both. The bill also removes the prohibition on hunting migratory waterfowl from floating blinds in the waters of Caroline, Essex, King George, Richmond and Westmoreland Counties, and in portions of creeks, streams, and bays flowing into the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, through the establishment of an offshore blind stake site license. The cost of a stake site license is $5 and there is a limit of four stake site licenses per applicant. The bill describes the various siting requirements and times when the stake site license has to be obtained and by whom. The penalty for violation of the act is increased from a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $250 or by confinement in jail for not more than 30 days, or both, to a Class 2 misdemeanor.
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Offshore blind stake sites; penalty. Gives the owners, their lessees or permittees of land that is adjacent to the waters in Stafford, Prince William, and Fairfax, the exclusive privilege of erecting stationary blinds on their shoreline. Under this bill, which amends a 1928 Act of Assembly, they are also given the prior right to erect stationary blinds in the waters in front of their property. However, they forfeit the privilege and the prior right if they do not erect the blind by November 1. This bill would increase the penalty to a Class 2 misdemeanor from the current fine of between $10 and $100 or confinement in jail for no more than a year, or both. The bill also removes the prohibition on hunting migratory waterfowl from floating blinds in the waters of Caroline, Essex, King George, Richmond and Westmoreland Counties, and in portions of creeks, streams, and bays flowing into the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, through the establishment of an offshore blind stake site license. The cost of a stake site license is $5 and there is a limit of four stake site licenses per applicant. The bill describes the various siting requirements and times when the stake sites license has to be obtained and by whom. The penalty for violation of the act is increased from a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $250 or by confinement in jail for not more than 30 days, or both, to a Class 2 misdemeanor.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Offshore blind stake sites; penalty. Removes the prohibition on hunting migratory waterfowl from floating blinds in the waters of Caroline, Essex, King George, Richmond and Westmoreland Counties, and in portions of creeks, streams, and bays flowing into the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, through the establishment of an offshore blind stake site license. The cost of a stake site license is $5 and there is a limit of four stake site licenses per applicant. The bill describes the various siting requirements and times when the stake sites license has to obtained and by whom. The penalty for violation of the act is increased from a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $250 or by confinement in jail for not more than 30 days, or both, to a Class 2 misdemeanor.