HB 1612 TARGETS HUNTING W/HOUNDS. HOUNDS CAN BE IMPOUNDED & HOUND OWNERS ARRESTED & PROSECUTED AS MISDEMEANORS. THIS BILL IS SCHEDULED FOR VA. HOUSE FLOOR 1/15/05. CALL DELAGATE COLE (ORIGINATOR OF THIS BILL)@804-698-1088 & 540-752-8200 ; STATE YOUR NAME AND AS A CITIZEN OF VA. YOU ARE OPPOSED TO HOUSE BILL 1612. DON'T DELAY! AS OF 2:00PM. TUES. ONLY 2 PEOPLE HAD CALLED.

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1612
Offered January 12, 2005
Prefiled December 15, 2004
A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-134 of the Code of Virginia, relating to releasing hunting dogs on another landowner’s property; penalty.
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Patron— Cole (By Request)
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.2-134 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18.2-134. Trespass on posted property; release of dogs.

A. Any person who goes on the lands, waters, ponds, boats or blinds of another, which have been posted in accordance with the provisions of § 18.2-134.1, to hunt, fish or trap except with the written consent of or in the presence of the owner or his agent shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

B. It is unlawful for any person to release his dogs on another person’s posted land for the purpose of pursuing, taking, chasing, flushing, or killing game or wild animals, without the landowner’s permission. It shall be a rebuttable presumption that any hunter’s dog found on another’s property not under the control of its owner is in violation of this subsection. A violation of this subsection shall be a Class 4 misdemeanor.


Even if your not a hound hunter please lets stand together... WHile I do not agree with letting dogs loose on someone elses property I do find it wrong that if a hound runs off your property and onto a ajoining piece that you can be charged