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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77898</law_id><section_number>29.1-332</section_number><catch_line>License and permit receipts; compensation for issuing; sums to be credited to game protection fund</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>29.1-305.1</reference><reference>29.1-327</reference><reference>29.1-333</reference><reference>29.1-339.2</reference></referred_to_by><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="3">Licenses</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Licenses</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Payment of state funds into state treasury; deposits in state depositories; credit of fund not paid into general fund; exceptions as to endowments and gifts to institutions; appropriations by federal government" href="/2.2-1802/">2.2-1802</a>, the money received for licenses and permits issued under this title shall be paid by each clerk or agent to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> for payment into the state treasury. Payment shall be made by means prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> and agreed to by the clerk or agent. For license sales by telephone or electronic media, the means of payment may include a continuous deposit of proceeds from the sale of licenses into accounts from which the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may electronically transfer funds to a Departmental or state account at agreed-upon intervals. For license sales made other than by telephone or electronic media, the clerk or agent shall add $.50 to the fee for each license or permit he <span class="dictionary">issues</span> and retain the $.50 as compensation for such service. <a id="paragraph-279333" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-332/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Upon receipt into the treasury of such sums the Comptroller shall credit the sums to the <span class="dictionary">game</span> protection fund or to the Lifetime Hunting and <span class="dictionary">Fishing</span> Endowment Fund for licenses sold pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Special lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for residents and nonresidents" href="/29.1-302.1/">29.1-302.1</a>. <a id="paragraph-279334" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-332/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The voluntary contributions collected pursuant to subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Delivery to clerk or agent; return of unused annually expiring materials and unsold licenses; voluntary contributions" href="/29.1-330/">29.1-330</a> and remitted to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall be deposited into the state treasury and credited to a special nonreverting fund, within the <span class="dictionary">game</span> protection fund, known as the Feed the Hungry Fund. Monies in this fund shall be disbursed quarterly to Hunters For The Hungry to support its programs to feed the hungry and other statewide activities related to this mission. <a id="paragraph-279335" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-332/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 29-69, 29-71; 1976, c. 660; 1980, c. 494; 1987, cc. 95, 488; 1992, c. 374; 2000, c. 132; 2003, cc. 95, 737.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
