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Section 18.2-286 of the Code prohibits shooting on, across or within 100 yards of a road and has been in the Code for a number of years. It is a highway safety law and could not be enforced by our game wardens until they were%iven full police powers, effective July 1, 1982. Since that date we have charged sixty persons for violating this law.
At a game warden supervisors’ meeting in October 1983, it was pointed out that a great deal of confusion existed because of county ordinances (attached), many of which conflict with S 18.2286. These ordinances, authorized by the General Assembly in 1982 under S 29144.5, prohibit hunting with firearms within certain distances from primary and secondary highways. Hunters have assumed that, if a local ordinance prohibits hunting within ten feet of a highway, then it is permissible to hunt and shoot within any distance beyond ten feet of the highway. The much publicized case involving Frank Sutton’s son illustrates the point. Sutton was hunting doves in Nelson County where a local ordinance prohibits hunting within ten feet of a highway. He , was 38 feet from the highway when he was charged with shooting within 100 yards.
In our first effort to resolve the conflict it was decided that, in addition to
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