CODE OF VIRGINIA

COUNTIES, CITIES OR TOWNS MAY PROHIBIT HUNTING NEAR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COUNTY,
CITY, TOWN OR REGIONAL PARKS (§ 29.1-527)

The governing body of any county, city or town may prohibit by ordinance,
shooting or hunting with a firearm, or prohibit hunters from traversing an area
while in possession of a loaded firearm, within 100 yards of any property line
of a public school or a county, city, town or regional park. The governing body
may, in such ordinance, provide that any violation thereof shall be a Class 4
misdemeanor. Nothing in this section shall give any county, city or town the
authority to enforce such an ordinance on lands within a national or state park
or forest, or wildlife management area.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 485, § 29-144.5:1; 1987, c. 488.