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the Attorney General?” asked Latham.
Davis answered that he was not.
“I’m more confused than ever,” commented Supervisor Wood.
Luke interjected that the county could still write its own ordinance.
The Supervisors can write an ordinance making it illegal to hunt or attempt to hunt within 100 feet of a public road right-of-way, said Davis. He maintained that he had presented such legislation to the Board previously and “the ones opposed were the game wardens.”
Luke pointed out that Davis hadn’t brought the legislation before the current Board and Bankston added that he wouldn’t oppose Davis’s suggestion. He added that he had only brought the Culpeper Ordinances in as possible solutions, and that he had done so at the request of the Board.
“Every time you pass a law making it inconvenient for hunters, they go to Richmond and get exceptions made,” said Davis, commenting on the difficulty of getting an effective gun control ordinance on the books. He agreed to work with Pete Luke on drawing up a county ordinance and further suggested that Rappahannock limit its hunting season to the same time period as in the western Blue Ridge area, where the season ends two weeks earlier.
Bankston agreed that this would help to stop the influx of out-ofcounty hunters into Rappahannock. Culpeper County had recently decided to ask the Game Commission to change the county’s season to correspond to that west of the Blue Ridge. “Seventy-five percent of the deer are killed in the first two weeks,” added Bankston.
DAVIS said he would also work with Luke on a proposal to limit the hunting season but observed
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