Amendments

1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact section six hundred and seventy-four, chapter thirty-three of the Code of Virginia, relating to ventilation of school buildings.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of deer in the counties of Northumberland, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Richmond, King George, Stafford and Rockingham.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 234, Acts of Assembly of Virginia, 1918, approved March 15, 1918, entitled an act for the relief of all taxpayers in the State of Virginia, whose lands during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen were taken or acquired by the United States, or shall be so taken or acquired in any year subsequent to the year nineteen hundred and seventeen
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 205 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1924, relating to the duty of a registrar upon receipt of an application from an absent voter for a ballot.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 88 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4473 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the unlawful shooting at, or throwing stones or other missiles at or against, certain trains, cars, vessels, motor vehicles and other vehicles carrying passengers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight, approved March 15, 1902, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1294-k, Pollard’s Code, Supplement 1916, approved March 14, 1912, Acts Virginia Assembly 1912, page 583, entitled an act imposing upon railroad corporations liability for injury to their employees in certain cases omitted in the Code revision of 1919 and thereby repealed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to officers of cities, their election or appointment and term of office.
An ACT to prevent fraud and deception at certain auctions in this State; to regulate such auctions; to provide for licenses and bonds and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 298 of the Code of Virginia in relation to continuance of right in court proceedings when a member or officer of the general assembly is counsel.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved February 26, 1924, in relation to the power of judges to hold courts other than their own.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2601 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the funding of the public debt, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2705 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to removal of officers from office.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the appointment of trustees for the town of York
An Act to Amend and Re-enact Subsection 7 and 11 of Section 2 and Section 56 of an Act Entitled an Act to Provide a New Charter for the City of Roanoke and to Repeal the Existing Charter of Said City and the Several Acts Amendatory Thereof and All Other Acts and Parts of Acts Inconsistent with This Act So Far as They Relate to the City of Roanoke
An ACT for the establishment of game sanctuaries in this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5777 of the Code of Virginia, relating to surety’s remedy against principal for money paid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, which said section is in chapter 109 of the sand Code on the subject of boards of supervisors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5791 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, providing for the liability of intrastate common carriers by railroad operated by steam for injury to, or death of, employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide with certain conditions and restrictions, a site on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond known as the Soldiers’ Home property, for the establishment and conduct thereon by the Home for Needy Confederate Women, a corporation existing under the laws of Virginia, of a home for the needy widows, wives, sisters and daughters of Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines, such home to be a memorial to the women of the Southern Confederacy, approved January 28, 1926.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3875 of the Code of Virginia in relation to non-stock corporations, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2165 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to moneys may be paid into treasury by check, et cetera.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3392 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the recordation of certain writings and other papers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Brookneal, in the county of Campbell, approved February 20, 1908, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11, chapter 6, of an act incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3061 of the Code of Virginia, 1924, in reference to the establishment of chain gangs.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 541 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1920, and sections 545, 546-a, 3991 and 4435 of the Code of Virginia, section 546-a of which was added to the said Code by an act approved March 22, 1920, all of which sections relate to fires and fire protection.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (b) of section 2 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act
An ACT amend and re-enact section 245% of the Code of Virginia what may be distrained for taxes; fees of officers; notice to tenant.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to fishing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1630 of the Code of Virginia relating to the practice of optometry, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 57 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto, as approved April 2, 1902, and amended, Acts 1910, 1916 and 1922; and to provide for the appointment by the town council of a police justice for the town of Covington, Virginia, and to define his powers and duties.
An ACT to authorize the issuance of bonds by the county school board of Mecklenburg county for the purpose of refunding school bonds issued on behalf of the school districts of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 27 to 32, inclusive, as here- tofore amended, of the charter of the town of Woodstock, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 90 and 91 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof, approved March 19, 1915.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Mathews to appoint each member of the board of supervisors as supervisor of roads for his magisterial district; to provide for their compensation, and to prescribe their duties and powers
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5786 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 236 of the said Code, in relation to actions for injuries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend an act approved March 20, 1920, entitled an act in relation to local levies; and repealing sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of Virginia, by adding a new section thereto to be known as section l-a, relating to local school taxes in the county of Lee, approved March 7, 1924. [H B 112]
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the county school board of Amherst county to borrow money, not in excess of $20,000.00 and to issue its time warrants therefor, for county school purposes in that county, approved March 20, 1924 so as to authorize the county school board of Amherst county to borrow thirty thousand dollars under said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3394 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1920, in relation to general indexes for clerk’s offices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3851 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in relation to corporations.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 69 and 70 of the Constitution of Virginia, which sections relate to the election and term of office of the Governor.
An ACT to authorize a school census in Gordon school district and in Taylor school district of Orange county, Virginia, to be in lieu of the regular quinquennial census taken in said districts in nineteen hundred and twenty-five.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 25, 1922, chapter 92, Acts of 1922, page 129, which act provides for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to make appropriation for its maintenance, approved March 23, 1922; to abolish the board of visitors of the Virginia school for the blind, created by an act approved March 21, 1924, and to confer upon the Virginia commission for the blind all the powers and to impose upon it all the duties of such board of visitors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1808 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act regulating the hours of labor of women
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922, and Section 2003 of the Code of Virginia, in respect to the working of prisoners on the public roads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3233 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to resurveys of oyster-planting grounds.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, by adding thereto two sections, to be numbered 28 and 29.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4122 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 25, 1920, regarding fees for examination of banks.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 186 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3799 of the Code of Virginia of 1919. as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2385 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 16, 1920, and March 20, 1924; sections 2386, 2387 and 2388 of the said Code; section 2389 of the said Code, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920; and sections 2390 and 2391 of the said Code, all of which sections relate to redress against erroneous assessments of taxes and levies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said town
An ACT to authorize the county school board of Northampton county in behalf of the several school districts therein, to borrow money and to issue its refunding bonds therefor, for the purpose of paying a like amount of outstanding bonds of the several school districts in said county, or any of them, and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 552 of the Code of Virginia, requiring the State accountant to devise a system of bookkeeping and accounting for State and local officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 70 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3240 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, in relation to the taking of oysters from natural rocks, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2777. of the Code of Virginia, in relation to bonds of treasurers of counties and cities.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact subsection C of section 2546 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to official receipts for fines.
An Act proposing an amendment to section 130 of the Constitution of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109, chapter 11 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 24, 25, 37 and 44 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Farmville
An ACT to amend and re-enact section (c) of an act entitled an act to regulate the confession of judgments in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon
An ACT to amend chapter 120 of the Code of Virginia, which chapter is in relation to the extension or contraction of corporate limits of cities and towns, by the addition thereto of a new section to be numbered 2958-a.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of the attorneys for the Commonwealth, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1922, and March 21, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 55, 61, 65, 67, 69 and 75 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4163 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts, approved March 27, 1922, and March 15, 1924, in relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 8 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, in Louisa county, approved March 8, 1873, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3694 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act providing for the election of the members of the State Corporation Commission by the qualified voters of the State and providing for their terms and commission
An ACT to prohibit school boards of counties, cities and towns from borrowing money except under express authority of law; to declare any loan negotiated by any such board without authority of law to be utterly void; to authorize local school boards to borrow money on short time loans, with certain restrictions; to prohibit every such school board from borrowing money under any general statute in force the day before this act takes effect, and from expending, or contracting to expend in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for that fiscal year unless in each case the board of supervisors of the county, or the council of the city or town, as the case may be, shall first approve the same; to provide for the removal from office of any member of a school board knowingly violating, or voting to violate any provision of this act; and to repeal an act entitled an act authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Norton, in Wise county, approved February 15, 1894, as heretofore amended, by the addition thereto of a new section, to be numbered 3-a, in relation to the salary of the mayor of the said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 11, 19, 26 and 30 of an act entitled -an act concerning weights and measures; and to repeal sections 1464 to 1470, both inclusive, and sections 1472 to 1485, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, approved March 14, 1924, and to amend the said act by adding thereto five new sections to be numbered sections 14, 16, 20, 22 and 2414.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 7 and 11 of section 2 and section 56 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts and parts of act inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 152 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 5 of an act approved March 27, 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914; and to require the clerk in connection therewith, to keep a record of fees received.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924, relating to pete of boards of supervisors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 6 of section 3292 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to crabs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6316 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to bills of review.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3854 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of foxes in the counties of Orange and Madison
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the proposed child labor amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 77 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, approved March 3, 1892, as heretofore amended, with particular reference to the act approved March 4, 1924, amending said section of said charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 6 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 80, 81, 131 and 145 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5252 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to when deposition of witness may be taken and read on probate of will.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of the special road law of Wythe county, approved March 23, 1920, so as to allow the board of supervisors to contract with the several members of said board to inspect certain road and bridge maintenance and construction and to compensate them therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3788 as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in relation to subscriptions to capital stock.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6456 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to marginal releases of liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6347 and 6355 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appeals and writs of error and supersedeas
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Shenandoah, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act.