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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54739</law_id><section_number>29.1-349</section_number><catch_line>Hunting, erecting blind within 500 yards of licensed blind</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>29.1-344.1</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="2">Licenses for Waterfowl Blinds and for Hunting Waterfowl</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No person shall hunt or shoot migratory waterfowl in the public waters of this Commonwealth from a boat, float, raft or other buoyant craft or device within 500 yards of any legally licensed erected stationary blind of another without the consent of the licensee, or within 150 yards of a residence without the consent of the landowner, except when in active pursuit of a visibly crippled waterfowl that was legally shot by the person. <a id="paragraph-200948" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-349/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No person shall erect a stationary blind in the public waters within 500 yards of any other licensed blind without the consent of the licensee. Any person who violates this subsection shall be guilty of a trespass, and the affected blind licensee may maintain an action for <span class="dictionary">damages</span>. Furthermore, the <span class="dictionary">trial</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall immediately revoke the blind owner&#x2019;s license for the stationary blind where the <span class="dictionary">offense</span> was committed. The blind owner may be eligible for a license in the following <span class="dictionary">open season</span> upon the same conditions that would apply to a new applicant. When a license for a stationary blind has been revoked, the blind shall be destroyed by the former licensee. <a id="paragraph-200949" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-349/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 29-90; 1954, c. 305; 1956, c. 318; 1987, c. 488; 2004, c. 422; 2007, c. 87; 2013, c. 745; 2020, c. 415.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
