Amendments

1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virgima by the addition thereto of a new section to be numbered I83-a.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2149 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to licenses for public garages.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission to suggest amendments to the Constitution of Virginia and to prescribe the powers and duties of the said commission; also making an appropriation to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
An ACT to repeal section 987 of the Code of Virginia which requires boards of education and eleemosynary institutions to report to the auditor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in relation to corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3792 of the Code of Virginia in relation to corporations and the creation of stock, etc.; the increase or decrease of the same, the creation of preferred stock, the redemption thereof, and dividends thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 110 of the Code of Virginia relating to the correction of lists of all persons who have paid their State poll taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Code sections 2218, 2219, 2228, 2230, 2254, 2255, 2256, 2257, 2258 and 2312 as heretofore amended, concerning the appointment, duties and compensation of examiners of records, and the duties of the commissioners of the revenue.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act validating certain negotiable notes issued by the board of supervisors of the county of Shenandoah and authorizing said board to issue additional negotiable notes of said county, and to authorize renewals thereof, and to provide for the keeping of a record of such negotiable notes and certificates of indebtedness.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 170 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6279 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compensation of special commissioners of sale, acting under an order of court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3249 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to seed oysters.
An ACT to authorize the governing boards of certain State institutions of ‘higher education to issue and sell, through the commissioners of the sinking fund, and subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, certificates of indebtedness in the names and on behalf of their institutions, respectively, to raise funds for dormitory construction purposes
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5342 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the leasing and selling of lands of persons under disability.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter V of an act concerning corporations
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 226 of the Code of Virginia in relation to primary elections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter XIX of the charter of the town of Waynesboro, in relation to the public schools of the town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of 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 heretofore amended, and to reped section 3 of the said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as heretofore amended.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 22 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising and making such advertising a misdemeanor and providing penalties
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4112 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to issue of acceptances and letters of credits by banks.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions, approved March 14, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to powers of a local nature conferred on boards of supervisors, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (a) of section 34 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk 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 said city of Suffolk, approved February 25, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1068 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to commitment of inebriates to State hospitals for the insane
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act concerning agricultural seeds and to repeal sections 1138 to 1153, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5209 of the Code of Virginia, providing when notaries or other officers who hold stock in companies, or are officers thereof, or both, may take acknowledgments to deeds or other writings, which said companies execute, or which are executed to or for the benefit of such companies, if not otherwise interested.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to organize county and city boards of poor commissioners, and requiring reports from said boards, approved March 14, 1910.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 171 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to create a commission to represent the State in arranging and carrying out a program for the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington, and to define the powers and duties of the commission.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 26 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial to Robert Edward Lee, approved March 20, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 9 and 12 of an act entitled an act to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain securities herein defined by requiring an inspection and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker, or agent in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of title 12, chapter 46, of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1924, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia; and to define the boundaries of the said town of Virginia Beach.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize courts and other tribunals to take judicial notice of the laws of other states and foreign countries and of the United States

1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5017 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 6 of chapter 301 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds therefor
An ACT to provide for the submission to the people for ratification or rejection the proposed revision and/or amendments of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, Al, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197 of the Constitution of Virginia (a part of which said sections have not been altered but remain as they are in the present Constitution, but have been included in said proposed revision), and the addition thereto of seven new sections to be numbered as sections 86a, 115a, 183a, 184a, 184b, 195a and 198, and the repeal of sections 128, 148, 149, 150, 151 and 182 of the present Constitution, all as authorized by section 196 of the present Constitution; to provide when and how such election shall be held; to designate the persons who may vote in such election; and to provide for the ascertainment and proclamation of the result of such election.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act requiring permits to be obtained for the construction, repair or improvement of buildings or structures in counties having a density of population ef more than 300 per square mile, according to the United States census, approved February 26, 1926.
An ACT to prohibit hazing at any school, college or university receiving State appropriations in this State, and to provide punishment and civil liability therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 24, 1924, which appears as chapter 477 on page 761 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, relating to the inspection of gasoline.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 387 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, of 1926, entitled “an act requiring all oysters from the public rocks of the Commonwealth to be inspected when loading on vessels ; measurements; tax; penalties,” approved March 24, 1926, as amended, so as to include all oysters, taken from such public rocks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2158 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State depositories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 14 of chapter 300 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 20, 1922, relating to the business of making small loans.
An ACT relating to the reorganization of fraternal benefit societies into mutual life insurance companies.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March 24, 1922, by adding thereto four sections, to be numbered 21%, 1314, 1814 and 4014, and by amending and re-enacting sections 4, 9, 17, 18.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the payment of small amounts into court and then to the parties entitled to receive the same, without the intervention of any administrator, guardian or committee, approved March 16, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4685 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to operation of slot machines, punch boards or similar devices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6019 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of justices, and enlarging the same so as to prohibit justices of the peace from taking claims for collection or making collections thereon, and prescribing punishment for violations.
An ACT to repeal sections 3201, 3206, 3207, 3208 and 3210 of the Code of Virginia, and an act entitled an act to limit the number of certain game fish that may be taken in any one day in this Commonwealth, approved March 17, 1922, and to amend and re-enact subsections first, second and third of section 3195 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fishing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of chapter 111 of an act of the general assembly of Virgimia, approved March 10, 1908, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5019, 5048 and 2091 of the Code of Virginia, the former as heretofore amended, and to repeal section 5036 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph first, subsection “b” of paragraph second and paragraph fourth of section 3356 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unlawful hunting and possession of game and other birds and animals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in counties of the State adjoining a city having a population, according to the last preceding United States census, of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants or more; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts; and to provide for the issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for establishing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary districts, approved March 17, 1926, so as to make the same apply to counties having a population greater than 500 inhabitants to the square mile.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide whole family protection for members of fraternal benefit societies
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the disability of a person holding office or employ-ment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees for attorneys for the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4405 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 23 and 32 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved Septemter 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk, and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of chapter 407 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, page 593, approved March 20, 1924, concerning intoxicating liquors, as amended in chapter 231 of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, page 417, approved March 23, 1926.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 75 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, page 637, commonly known as the workmen's compensation act, as last amended by chapter 7, of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, page 7, and to appropriate funds for the carrying into effect the performance of the duties required of the industrial commission under this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2094 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1920, in relation to jail prisoners on road or quarry force and the credit to be allowed them for good behavior.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of said will, approved February 24, 1874, as amended by acts approved April 2, 1877, April 19, 1884, February 29, 1892, January 11, 1896, May 13, 1903, respectively. And to repeal an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to regulate the number of votes to be cast by the school trustees of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the semi-annual meetings of the city and county school boards held at the Miller school on Tuesday after the third Monday in January and July of each year or any adjourned meeting thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to create a State highway commission; to provide for a chairman thereof; and to prescribe the powers, duties and the compensation of the commission and chairman; and to provide for a State highway commissioner; to create road construction districts; to provide for the apportionment among them of road construction funds, and to provide for road construction, improvement, maintenance and preservation, also to repeal sections 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1975 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission; to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commission to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1900; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; and to repeal all other sections of the Code and acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 24, 1922, section 5 of which was heretofore amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 21, 1924, and further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1926.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirteen of the charter of the town of Bedford, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg, as defined by chapter 507 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1884, and as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to validate certain certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia taken by commissioners of deeds appointed by governors of States other than the governor of Virginia, approved February 26, 1924, so as to include notaries public appointed by the governor of Virginia, approved March 6, 1926, so as to include notaries public of States other than Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5790 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the survival of the right of action against a deceased tort feasor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2095 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to validate the title acquired by the purchasers under tax deeds from the clerks of court, under the provisions of chapter 28 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, under the provisions of chapter 52 of acts of 1906, approved February 23, 1906, and under the provisions of chapter 99 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, and acts amendatory thereof, and to provide a time within which objections may be made to such deeds, or any entry may be made on, or an action may be brought to recover the land conveyed by such deeds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4439 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4489 of the Code of Virginia, relating to forgery, and making it apply to any person who shall, by any false pretense or token, obtain the signature of another person to a writing, with intent to defraud.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 42 of the acts of 1901-2, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries in Grayson county, Virginia, approved December 21, 1901.
An ACT to amend, extend and re-enact an act approved March 21. 1924, entitled “an act to validate substitutions of trustees under deeds tecorded in Virginia heretofore made in the courts of Virginia without Sufficient notice or without any notice to some one or more of the persons interested in the trusts of such deeds, and to validate acts done by such substituted trustees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of troll (or trawl) nets in the waters of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and providing a penalty for same
An ACT to amend and re-enact the title, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain “securities” herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 64 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News as amended by an act approved March 24, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4155 of the Code of Virginia, relating to building and loan associations, initiation or membership fees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, page 637, commonly known as the “workmen’s compensation law,” as last SETAE by chapter 7 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 7.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 45 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (e) of section 29 of chapter 149 of the Acts of 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, and 572 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the State board of accountancy, and to add a new section relating thereto, designated as section 572a.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 29 of chapter 149 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1983 of the Code of Virginia, relating to paying of viewers, commissioners and surveyor; mileage.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act of the general assembly entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act,” approved March 24, 1620, as last amended by chapter 165 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 303, relating to the police justice of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5342 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the sale of lands of persons under disabilities.
An ACT for the protection of all fur-bearing animals in the county of Halifax
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6501 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, as heretofore amended, in relation to notice of lien by judgment and to provide for damages for serving notice when no judgment or lien exists.
An ACT to amend sections 3, 4 and 14 of an act entitled an act to create a State commission on conservation and development; to prescribe its powers and duties; to vest it with powers and duties now vested by law in the water power and development commission, the State geological commission, the State geological survey, the office of the State geologist, and the office of the State forester; and to vest it with power to condemn and acquire land and other property for public park purposes, approved March 17, 1926, and providing for the conservation of property acquired under the provisions of section 14, with the aid of voluntary gifts or contributions placed at the disposal of the commission.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 80, 81, 131 and 145 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6046 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 439 of the acts of the general assembly of 1922, page 763, relating to notice and motion for judgment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3810 and 3865 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3613, 3615, 3625 and 3638 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prohibit the killing of ring-necked pheasants in the counties of Frederick and Clarke for a period of five years and providing punishment for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of corporations, as amended by an act, approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780, as heretofore amended, section 3792, as heretofore amended, section 3793, section 3797 and section 3850, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia in relation to corpora- tions.