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- 4VAC15-270-30 · Use of rifles for hunting and killing big game in Dismal Swamp
- 4VAC15-270-40 · Shooting or carrying rifle or pistol over public inland waters
- 4VAC15-270-60 · Use of firearms loaded with slugs and discharge of firearms near boardwalk or nature trail on Ragged Island Wildlife Management Area
- 4VAC15-270-70 · Use of shotguns with rifled barrels
- 4VAC15-270-80 · Shotgun shell capacity for nonmigratory game, crows, and migratory game birds
- 4VAC15-270-90 · Model ordinances related to hunting with firearms for counties and cities
- 4VAC15-270-95 · Model ordinances related to archery deer hunting
- 4VAC15-270-96 · Pneumatic rifles permitted for hunting deer; prohibited for hunting bear and elk
- 4VAC15-275-10 · Application
- 4VAC15-275-20 · Definitions
- 4VAC15-275-30 · Provisions for compliance and minimum standards for hunter education course competency
- 4VAC15-275-40 · Hunter education course provider requirements
- 4VAC15-275-50 · Hunter education course availability
- 4VAC15-275-60 · Hunter education course certificates, recordkeeping, and student records
- 4VAC15-275-80 · Instructor certification
- 4VAC15-275-110 · Penalties for violation
- 4VAC15-280-10 · Requirements for legal possession of furs purchased out of state prior to season
- 4VAC15-280-20 · Fur farming; authority to breed and raise fur-bearing animals
- 4VAC15-280-30 · Fur farming; records
- 4VAC15-280-40 · Fur farming; labeling packages
- 4VAC15-280-50 · Fur farming; confinement of animals; inspection
- 4VAC15-290-20 · Collection of specimens of wild birds for scientific purposes
- 4VAC15-290-30 · Breeding game birds for propagation and stocking; records
- 4VAC15-290-40 · Breeding game birds for propagation and stocking; labeling packages
- 4VAC15-290-50 · Breeding game birds and game animals for propagation and stocking; confinement; inspection
- 4VAC15-290-60 · Holding wild animals for exhibition purposes
- 4VAC15-290-70 · Stuffing or mounting birds and animals; possession of game legally taken
- 4VAC15-290-80 · Stuffing or mounting birds and animals - records
- 4VAC15-290-110 · Breeding pheasants; confinement; inspection
- 4VAC15-290-115 · Field trials; authorized dates
- 4VAC15-290-130 · Duty to comply with permit conditions
- 4VAC15-290-140 · Possession of a harvest information program authorization to hunt migratory game birds
- 4VAC15-290-150 · (Reserved.)
- 4VAC15-290-160 · Foxhound training preserves.
- 4VAC15-300-10 · Open season for weasel
- 4VAC15-320-10 · Continuous open season for all species except anadromous (coastal) striped bass above the fall line in coastal rivers of the Chesapeake Bay
- 4VAC15-320-25 · Creel and length limits
- 4VAC15-320-40 · Sale of game fish, yellow perch, white perch, gizzard shad, carp, gar, and catfish
- 4VAC15-320-50 · Fish used as bait prohibited in certain waters
- 4VAC15-320-60 · Approval required to stock fish into inland waters
- 4VAC15-320-70 · Use of certain mechanical devices in tail waters of Kerr Dam
- 4VAC15-320-80 · Fishing, collecting bait, etc., in tail waters of Leesville Dam
- 4VAC15-320-90 · Exception to requirement of national forest permit
- 4VAC15-320-100 · Department-owned or department-controlled lakes, ponds, streams, boat access sites, or hatcheries
- 4VAC15-320-120 · Special daily permit for fishing in Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Douthat State Park Lake, Crooked Creek, and Wilson Creek
- 4VAC15-320-150 · Shooting certain fish in Clinch River in Scott County
- 4VAC15-320-160 · Altering of game fish in possession prohibited
- 4VAC15-320-170 · Fishways
- 4VAC15-330-10 · Season; general open season
- 4VAC15-330-30 · Creel limit; generally
- 4VAC15-330-50 · Size limit
- 4VAC15-330-60 · Methods and equipment used in fishing
- 4VAC15-330-80 · Fishing in certain waters after obtaining creel limit of trout prohibited
- 4VAC15-330-90 · Feeding or baiting trout prohibited in designated stocked trout waters
- 4VAC15-330-100 · "Artificial lure" defined
- 4VAC15-330-120 · Special provisions applicable to certain portions of Buffalo Creek, Dan River, Pound River, Roaring Run, and South Fork Holston River
- 4VAC15-330-130 · Special provision applicable to certain portions of Mossy Creek and South River
- 4VAC15-330-140 · Special provision applicable to certain portions of Big Wilson Creek, Cabin Creek, Conway River, Little Stony Creek, Little Wilson Creek, Mill Creek..
- 4VAC15-330-150 · Special provision applicable to trout fishing using artificial lures with single hook
- 4VAC15-330-160 · Special provisions applicable to certain portions of Accotink Creek, Back Creek, Big Moccasin Creek, Chestnut Creek, Hardy Creek, Holliday Creek, Holmes Run, Indian Creek, North River, Passage Creek, Pedlar River, Piney River, North Fork of Pound and Pound rivers, Middle Fork of Powell River, and Roanoke River
- 4VAC15-330-171 · Special provisions applicable to certain portions of Jackson River
- 4VAC15-330-175 · Special provisions applicable to certain portions of Smith River.
- 4VAC15-330-180 · Bills of sale for trout creeled in commercially operated fishing ponds
- 4VAC15-330-190 · Trout artificially raised for sale
- 4VAC15-330-200 · Special provisions applicable to Urban Fishing Program waters
- 4VAC15-330-210 · Special provisions applicable to youth-only stocked trout waters
- 4VAC15-340-10 · Haul seines to take fish for sale
- 4VAC15-340-20 · Haul seines to take fish for personal use
- 4VAC15-340-30 · Gill nets
- 4VAC15-340-40 · Dip nets; generally
- 4VAC15-340-50 · Dip nets; hedging prohibited
- 4VAC15-340-60 · Seines, traps, and nets prohibited in certain areas
- 4VAC15-340-70 · Eel pots for taking American eels for personal use
- 4VAC15-340-80 · Eel pots for taking American eels for sale
- 4VAC15-350-10 · Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; generally
- 4VAC15-350-20 · Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; certain counties east of the Blue Ridge Mountains
- 4VAC15-350-30 · Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; certain counties west of the Blue Ridge Mountains
- 4VAC15-350-40 · Fish: Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; Wolf and Big Walker's creeks in Giles County
- 4VAC15-350-50 · Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; Walker's Creek, Wolf Creek and north fork of Holston River in Bland County
- 4VAC15-350-60 · Trotlines, juglines, limblines, or set poles
- 4VAC15-350-70 · Taking of fish with bow and arrow or crossbow
- 4VAC15-360-10 · Taking aquatic invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, and nongame fish for private use
- 4VAC15-360-20 · Taking minnows and chubs for sale
- 4VAC15-360-30 · Taking of snapping turtles, crayfish and hellgrammites for sale
- 4VAC15-360-40 · Releasing game fish from nets, traps, etc
- 4VAC15-360-50 · Propagation and sale of certain amphibians and reptiles
- 4VAC15-360-60 · Prohibit the sale of salamander and madtom species
- 4VAC15-360-70 · Prohibit the sale of crayfish species
- 4VAC15-370-20 · Lifesaving devices for passengers of boats other than motorboats regularly offered for rent
- 4VAC15-370-40 · Vessels prohibited within certain areas below John H. Kerr Dam and Leesville Dam
- 4VAC15-370-45 · Invasive species prevention
- 4VAC15-370-50 · Regulatory markers and aids to navigation
- 4VAC15-370-51 · Regulatory markers and aids to navigation maintenance
- 4VAC15-370-60 · Throughway channel in waters of Virginia Beach
- 4VAC15-370-70 · Watercraft and motor identification numbers
- 4VAC15-370-80 · Penalties
- 4VAC15-380-30 · Numbering pattern
- 4VAC15-380-40 · Display of numbers
- 4VAC15-380-50 · Report of change of status of watercraft or owner
- 4VAC15-380-70 · When invalid; removal of numbers and surrender of certificate of number and certificate of title