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1995 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 28.2-700 and 28.2-705 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 28.2-700. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Crab dredge" means a device, which may have teeth on the bar, that is designed and used to catch crabs buried in the bottom.
"Crab pot" means a device made of wire or thread net used to catch crabs.
"Peeler crab" means a crab that has a soft shell fully developed under the hard shell, or a crab on which there is a pink or white line or rim on the edge of that part of the back fin next to the outer section of this fin.
"Peeler pot" means a wire mesh pot baited with only live adult male (jimmy)
blue crabs and food for these crabs.
§ 28.2-705. License restrictions; exemption; penalty.
A. It is unlawful to:
1. Take crabs with a rake which is pulled or pushed by a boat;
2. Use a crab pot which has a mesh less than 1 1/2 inches;
3. Place food for adult male (jimmy) crabs in a peeler pot from September
16 through May 14. A peeler pot is exempt from mesh size limitations;
4. Use a boat when buying crabs which is also used to take or catch hard crabs with dredges, when the Commission has limited the taking of crabs under § 28.2-713.
B. Any person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.