29.1-520 - Times for hunting. - Virginia Statutes

§ 29.1-520. Times for hunting.

A. Nonmigratory game birds and game animals may be hunted from one-half hourbefore sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Bears may be hunted withoutcapturing or taking from one-half hour before sunrise until four and one-halfhours after sunset during bear hound training season.

B. Fur-bearing animals and nuisance species of birds and animals may behunted by day or by night, except that muskrats may be hunted by day only.

C. A violation of this section shall be punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, §§ 29-141, 29-142; 1962, c. 469; 1974, c. 302; 1987, c. 488;1989, c. 421; 2008, c. 31.)