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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82788</law_id><section_number>29.1-203</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction; power to serve process</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="29.1">Wildlife, Inland Fisheries and Boating</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Conservation Police Officers</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> <span class="dictionary">Conservation police officers</span> shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> throughout the Commonwealth to enforce the hunting, trapping and inland fish <span class="dictionary">laws</span> and may serve process in all matters arising from violations of such <span class="dictionary">laws</span>. <a id="paragraph-296764" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-203/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> <span class="dictionary">Conservation police officers</span> shall enforce the State Water Control <span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">regulations</span> designating Smith Mountain Lake as a no-discharge zone for boat sewage. <a id="paragraph-296765" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-203/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 29-30; 1979, c. 264; 1987, c. 488; 2001, cc. 93, 123.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
