                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PERMIT TO BUY OR CARRY SEED OYSTERS FROM CERTAIN GROUNDS; PENALTY (§ 28.2-535)

A. It is unlawful for any person to buy or carry oysters from the eastern side
of the Counties of Accomack and Northampton or from the James River seed area,
whose shells measure less than three inches in length without first obtaining a
permit. A permit shall be required for each boat, vessel, or motor vehicle used
to carry such cargo. The applicant shall obtain the permit from the officer
assigned to the district where the cargo is loaded. The permit shall state the
name and tonnage of the boat, vessel, motor vehicle, or other conveyance; the
name of the owner and captain; the destination of the oysters; and the identity
of the permit applicant. The cargo may be loaded under the supervision of the
officer, in the order of the presentation of the permit to the officer in the
district in which the boat, vessel, motor vehicle, or other conveyance is to
obtain its cargo.

B. Any such permittee who takes seed oysters to a place not specified in his
permit and does not notify the Commissioner within twenty-four hours of the
change in planting location is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The owner or
captain of any boat, vessel, motor vehicle, or other conveyance found buying or
carrying seed oysters from these public grounds without a permit is guilty of a
Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 28-111; 1954, c. 447; 1962, c. 406, § 28.1-97; 1966, c.
642; 1992, c. 836.