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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65422</law_id><section_number>29.1-540</section_number><catch_line>Carriage and shipment</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="5">Wildlife and Fish Laws</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Possession, Transportation, and Sale of Game and Fish</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> When taken in accordance with the provisions of this title, wild birds, wild animals, or <span class="dictionary">fish</span> may be transported as follows: <a id="paragraph-237866" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-540/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> By any person properly licensed, for lawful use in or out of the county or city where taken to another county or city in the Commonwealth or to another state during the <span class="dictionary">open season</span> in the county or city where taken. <a id="paragraph-237867" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-540/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> By any <span class="dictionary">properly licensed person</span> via freight, express, parcel post, or airplane mail, as a gift and not for market or sale, and so stating on the shipping tag. The wild bird, wild animal, or <span class="dictionary">fish</span> may be transported in or out of the county or city where taken to another county or city in the Commonwealth, or to another state, during the <span class="dictionary">open season</span> in the county or city where taken. Any package in which birds, animals, or <span class="dictionary">fish</span> are transported shall have the name and address of the shipper and consignee and a statement of the numbers and kinds of birds, animals, or <span class="dictionary">fish</span> being transported clearly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the container. <a id="paragraph-237868" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-540/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> It is unlawful to transport for sale outside of the Commonwealth at any time or in any manner any river herring, alewife, threadfin shad, or gizzard shad collected from the inland waters for use as bait <span class="dictionary">fish</span>. A violation of the provisions of this subsection is a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. <a id="paragraph-237869" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-540/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any such birds, animals, or <span class="dictionary">fish</span> in transit during the <span class="dictionary">open season</span> may continue in transit, not to exceed five days, in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to reach their destination. <a id="paragraph-237870" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-540/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> For the purposes of this section, the terms &#x201C;wild birds,&#x201D; &#x201C;wild animals,&#x201D; and &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">fish</span>&#x201D; shall mean all or any part of the carcasses of any such birds, animals, or <span class="dictionary">fish</span>. <a id="paragraph-237871" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/29.1-540/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 29-156; 1987, c. 488; 2020, c. 808.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
