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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 153 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1958 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1987, chapter 488.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1420229,"object_type":"law","relational_id":357042,"identifier":"29.1-543","token":"29.1\/5\/4\/29.1-543","url":"\/29.1-543\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/29.1-543\/","token":"29.1\/5\/4\/29.1-543","dublin_core":{"Title":"Game and fish taken and packaged outside the Commonwealth","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 29.1-543","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>It shall be lawful to possess, store, transport, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase and otherwise deal in any wild animal, bird, fish or any part thereof, which has been taken and packaged in a can, tin, pot or other receptacle outside the Commonwealth by any person, company or corporation duly licensed by the state in which such cannery or processing plant is located and recognized by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>. 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Such packages may be transported into the Commonwealth,\nso long as the original package remains unbroken, unopened and intact.\n\nHISTORY: 1958, c. 153, \u00a7 29-158.1; 1987, c. 488.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}