[Rocketfan]

- Nonresidents of Virginia may now foxhunt in training preserves, provided they pay $12 for a license. The previous law only gave nonresidents the ability to foxhunt in shooting preserves.

- It’s a Class 3 misdemeanor to “willfully and intentionally impede someone who has obtained a kill permit from killing a bear or deer that is damaging the owner’s property,“ according to the text of the new law.

- Students who skip school and have 10 or more unexcused absences in a row could see their driver’s licenses suspended.

- Dove hunters don’t have to wear blazing orange clothing any longer.

- Doctors’ offices can’t charge for copies of medical bills any more—at least, for those patients who request copies less than three times a year.

- And payday lenders can’t charge more than 36 percent interest for unsecured loans.


http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/sta ... nts/17426/

[LUconn]

If you have your driver's license, then you're at the age where you can choose to drop out, correct?

[Rocketfan]

If you have your driver's license, then you're at the age where you can choose to drop out, correct?

a quick google search says you have to go until you are 18 in Va.

[Cider Jim]

Any word on 'possum kickers?

[FlameNForest]

Any word on 'possum kickers?

They no longer have to wear orange. Or was that something else?

[Cider Jim]

The kickers or the 'possums themselves?

[FlameNForest]

The kickers or the 'possums themselves?

Both

[ALUmnus]

How can you suspend someone's driver's license for a non-driving-related action? I don't see how high school attendance has any legal relevancy to having a driver's license. Why don't they tell us that we can't go to the movies if we don't maintain a 'C' average, too?

[SuperJon]

How can you suspend someone's driver's license for a non-driving-related action? I don't see how high school attendance has any legal relevancy to having a driver's license. Why don't they tell us that we can't go to the movies if we don't maintain a 'C' average, too?

In North Carolina, if you don't pass a certain percentage of your classes you get your license suspended. Also, if you drop out of school, you can't get your license until your high school class graduates.

[LUconn]

Good idea. Because teens who drop out of high school certainly won't need to drive to work.

[ALUmnus]

I'm no lawyer, but I don't get how that could be deemed constitutional if it was ever challenged. Does this apply to just public schools, or does it include private schools and home-schoolers?

[LUconn]

I don't think the constitution mentions drivers licenses. It's kind of a thing where the state can do whatever they want with it because it's not a right.