3.2-1002 - Listing of threatened and endangered species; powers of Board; further powers of Commissioner. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-1002. Listing of threatened and endangered species; powers of Board;further powers of Commissioner.

A. The Board may adopt regulations including the listing of threatened orendangered species, their taking, quotas, seasons, buying, selling,possessing, monitoring of movement, investigating, protecting, or any otherneed in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter.

B. The Commissioner may conduct investigations of species of plants andinsects to develop information relating to the population, distribution,habitat needs, limiting factors, and other biological and ecological data inorder to determine management measures necessary to assure their continuedability to sustain themselves successfully. As a result of this investigationand recommendations received regarding candidate species from the Director ofthe Department of Conservation and Recreation and from other reliable data,the Board shall approve proposed species to be added to or deleted from thelist of threatened species or the list of endangered species, or to betransferred from one list to the other.

(1979, c. 372, § 3.1-1025; 1985, c. 326; 1989, c. 553; 1990, c. 369; 2008, c.860.)