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Enclosure # 7 <br /> <br />City of Martinsville, Virginia <br /> <br />Ordinance No. 2003-10 <br />(City Code Section 24-6) <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in Regular <br />Session held on June 24, 2003, that Section 24-6 of the Code of the City of Martinsville, <br />currently reserved, be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows: <br /> <br />Sec. 24-6. Archery Season for Deer. <br /> <br />Notwithstanding the provisions of any other ordinance in the Code of the City of <br />Martinsville, it shall be legal for persons to discharge an arrow from a compound, <br />recurve or cross bow, for the purpose of taking deer, within the City of Martinsville, <br />during the designated days and times of the Special Urban Archery Season, the Early <br />Archery Season, and the Late Archery Season, all as defined by the Virginia <br />Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Any such discharge shall be subject to the <br />regulations established by said Department and subject also to the following: <br /> <br />All pemons seeking to hunt deer pursuant to this section shall obtain a <br />permit from the City Police Department. The fee for the permit shall be <br />$25.00, which shall be payable to the City Treasurer. The Police <br />Department is empowered to adopt such regulations additional to this <br />section as it deems necessary for the administrations and granting of the <br />permits. The Police Department is further empowered to revoke any such <br />permit upon discovery of a violation of this section or of its own <br />regulations. <br /> <br />All applicants for such hunting permits shall have held a valid Virginia <br />hunting license and big game license and shall provide evidence of <br />attendance at the eight-hour hunter safety course conducted by the <br />National Bowhunting Educational Foundation. All applicants shall obtain <br />written permission, evidenced by a form approved by the Police <br />Department, from the owner of property on which he or she wishes to <br />hunt. All permits and any such permission obtained from a landowner <br />shall include a clause wherein both hunter and landowner agree to <br />indemnify the City from all claims or other litigation arising from hunting <br />pursuant to this section. <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />Upon issuance of the permit, the hunter shall also be issued a placard <br />identifying their vehicle as that of a hunter; this placard shall not exempt <br />the hunter from Virginia or City parking and traffic laws and ordinances. <br />At all times while hunting pursuing to this section, hunters shall display <br />the placard on their vehicle and shall have on their person the permit, the <br /> <br /> <br />