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adopt them, primarily on the grounds that the laws were unenforceable.
How is it that hunter control laws are unenforceable here when this has not proved to be the case anywhere else?
In Culpeper, Game Warden Lee Haupt reported that he’d written approximately 40 citations under the same ordinances proposed for Rappahannock and failed to get a conviction only once in the three years that the laws have been in effect.
Gordon Wilkes, Fauquier County’s Game Warden, acknowledged that he’d written only three or four tickets this season. However, he noted that he operated this year under Fauquier’s old law that included slightly different wording than Culpeper’s. The Fauquier ordinance made it illegal to attempt to hunt” from a vehicle or public road. “I had to prove that they were hunting beyond a shadow of a doubt,” he said.
Even with that handicap, Wilkes had a 100 percent conviction rate this year on citations. Next year, he’ll work under the same laws that apply in Culpeper and he expects better results. Wilkes, who is Game Commission sergeant for the area that includes Loudoun County, reported that the conviction .rate under Loudoun’s hunter control ordinances was also running at 100 percent.
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