                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LISTING OF THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES; POWERS OF BOARD; FURTHER POWERS OF
COMMISSIONER (§ 3.2-1002)

A. The Board may adopt regulations including the listing of threatened or
endangered species, their taking, quotas, seasons, buying, selling, possessing,
monitoring of movement, investigating, protecting, or any other need in
furtherance of the purposes of this chapter.

B. The Commissioner may conduct investigations of species of plants and insects
to develop information relating to the population, distribution, habitat needs,
limiting factors, and other biological and ecological data in order to determine
management measures necessary to assure their continued ability to sustain
themselves successfully. As a result of this investigation and recommendations
received regarding candidate species from the Director of the Department of
Conservation and Recreation and from other reliable data, the Board shall
approve proposed species to be added to or deleted from the list of threatened
species or the list of endangered species, or to be transferred from one list to
the other.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 372, § 3.1-1025; 1985, c. 326; 1989, c. 553; 1990, c. 369;
2008, c. 860.