28.2-402 - License fee to take menhaden with purse nets. - Virginia Statutes

§ 28.2-402. License fee to take menhaden with purse nets.

Any person desiring to take or catch menhaden with purse nets shall pay tothe officer or agent a license fee as follows or as subsequently revised bythe Commission pursuant to § 28.2-201:

1. On each boat or vessel under seventy gross tons fishing with purse net, $3per gross ton, but not more than $150.

2. On each vessel over seventy gross tons fishing with purse net, $5 pergross ton, provided the maximum license fee for such vessels shall not bemore than $600.

The officer or agent shall thereupon grant a license to use such net or otherdevice and state in the license the name or names of the person or personswho shall use the same and the amount of the license fee.

(Code 1950, § 28-61; 1960, c. 517; 1962, c. 406, § 28.1-59; 1966, c. 695;1974, c. 313; 1978, cc. 347, 358; 1979, c. 274; 1980, c. 605; 1982, c. 461;1988, c. 710; 1992, c. 836; 2009, c. 9.)