Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
Title 4. Conservation and Natural Resources |
Agency 15. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries |
Chapter 260. Game: Waterfowl and Waterfowl Blinds |
Section 140. Nontoxic shot requirement for hunting of certain migratory game birds
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It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take ducks, geese, brant, swans, coots, mergansers, rails, snipe, gallinules or moorhens while possessing shotshells loaded with shot other than steel, bismuth-tin, tungsten-iron or other nontoxic shot approved for such use by the director of the department, if such shot is permissible under federal migratory waterfowl regulations.
Historical Notes
Derived from VR325-02-24 § 18, eff. July 1, 1991; amended, Volume 11, Issue 04, eff. December 14, 1994; Volume 14, Issue 05, eff. October 24, 1997; Volume 14, Issue 24, eff. September 1, 1998; Volume 24, Issue 24, eff. July 8, 2008.