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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
iUppahannork Ni-». Staff U rilt r
The Rappahannock supervisors sent the message out Monday that they are serious about curbing widespread hunting abuses which have plagued the county.
By majority vote, the board adopted an ordinance making it illegal to hunt or attempt to hunt within 300 feet of a public road and agreed to ask the Virginia General Assembly for enabling legislation to enact a local cased gun law.
But Game Warden Jim Bankston and others at Monday’s public hearing predicted that the ordinance passed by the supervisors will have little effect on illegal road hunting.
“How can you expect us to enforce an ordinance that is unenforceable?” asked Bankston. In order to get a conviction under the law prohibiting hunting within 300 feet of a road, it must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual is hunting or attempting to hunt, he said. Catching someone driving three or four miles an hour down a back road, even with loaded rifle ready, won’t be enough for a conviction, according to the game warden.
Further, the law passed Monday will give local residents and landowners “a false sense of security,” he maintained. “A cased gun law statewide is the best solution (to Rappahannock's problems with illegal road
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