                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CAPTURING, HOLDING, PROPAGATING, AND DISPOSING OF WILDLIFE FOR AUTHORIZED
PURPOSES (§ 29.1-417)

A. The fee for a permit to capture, hold, propagate, and dispose of wildlife for
purposes authorized by the Board shall be an amount sufficient to defray the
costs of processing the permit and administering the permitted activity.
However, in no instance shall the fees established by the Board exceed the
following:

   1. For endangered species, scientific collection and wildlife holder, $20 per
   year; and

   2. For all other such permits, $50 per year.

B. The Board shall establish a permit to authorize the permittee to artificially
raise trout, catfish, or largemouth bass and other members of the sunfish family
for sale from a privately owned facility. Where the permittee allows public
fishing from its facilities, if the fee provided for in subsection A has been
paid, no license shall be required to fish from such a facility.

C. The Board shall establish standards for the possession and display of
wildlife by elementary or secondary school teachers for educational purposes. No
permit fee or application shall be required, and such display shall be deemed to
be permitted so long as notification of the display is made to the Department
and the exhibit is in compliance with the standards established by the Board.
The Board&#8217;s standards may include species permitted to be possessed and
displayed, caging and enclosure requirements, prohibitions on release of
wildlife, and notification requirements in the case of wildlife sickness or
escape.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 494, § 29-111.1; 1987, c. 488; 1988, c. 250; 1993, c. 623;
1995, c. 610; 1997, c. 57; 2013, c. 792; 2015, c. 463.