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Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
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Title 4. Conservation and Natural Resources |
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Agency 15. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries |
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Chapter 90. Game: Deer |
Section 294. Rehabilitation of cervids
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A. For the purposes of this section:
"Juvenile" means any cervid less than one year of age on December 31 of the current calendar year.
"Adult" means any cervid greater than one year of age on December 31 of the current calendar year.
B. No person permitted by the department to rehabilitate cervids may transport, possess, rehabilitate, or release adult cervids.
C. Juvenile cervids requiring continued rehabilitation beyond December 31 of the current calendar year shall not be transported, possessed, released, or rehabilitated without written authorization from the department.
D. Cervids that originate within an area designated by the department for disease management shall not be transported or possessed for the purposes of rehabilitation. If such a cervid is brought to a rehabilitator permitted by the department, the permittee shall hold the cervid in isolation and immediately notify the department.
E. Cervids from any county (including the cities and towns therein) containing an area designated by the department for cervid disease management may be rehabilitated and released in the county of origin only if the cervid originated from a portion of the county outside the disease management area.
Historical Notes
Derived from Volume 29, Issue 25, eff. August 15, 2013.