Amendments

1930
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act, approved February 28, 1924, entitled 'An act to confer upon the State corporation commission jurisdiction and to impose upon it the duty to prescribe and enforce rates of pilotage and other charges to be observed in the business of pilotage and to prescribe the procedure.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5528 of the Code of Virginia, relating to return of distress warrants.
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 employment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1903-a providing for the disposition and care of expectant mothers who are prisoners in any penal institution in this State and for the care of such children born of such prisoners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty, entitled an act to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes, similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security and at a low rate of interest, approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2702 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 228 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, relating to the destruction of any tree, shrub, vine, plant, flower or turf, by any person upon the land of another, or the deposit thereupon of trash, debris, garbage, litter and other materials, and providing penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 39, of the Virginia workmen's compensation act
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections One, Three and Five of an Act Entitled an Act to Authorize the Counties and Cities of the State to Establish County or City Farms, and Providing for the Use of the Same, and for the Government and Support of Persons Confined Therein
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6017 and 6028 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appeals and removals of cases from justices courts, [H B 349]
An ACT to amend and re-enact section forty-nine (49) 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 to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to justices of the peace, as amended by chapter 515 of the acts of assembly of 1926.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 51 of the acts of assembly of 1922, entitled an act providing for the use of voting machines in cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more, so as to provide for the use of voting machines in any city, town or county in the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4909 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relative to committal, for observation of persons charged with crime whose mental condition is questioned.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6384, 6385 and 6394 of the Code of Virginia, relating to attachments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1077 of the Code of Virginia as amended, in relation to State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3162 of the Code of Virginia, relating to what constitutes tidewater Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 5 of chapter 321 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to provide for a special police force for the county of Fairfax, appointment and compensation,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 473, of the acts of assembly of 1924, 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 or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke,” as last amended by chapter 333 of the acts of assembly of 1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5187 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the sale of merchandise in bulk, as amended by chapter 332 of the acts of assembly of 1926.
An ACT to amend section 8 of chapter 256 of the acts of the general assembly of the session of 1928, approved March 19, 1928, entitled an act to prescribe the form and require the use of a standard fire insurance policy in the State of Virginia, so as to empower the State corporation commission to grant certain exemptions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the charter of the city of Hampton
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 182 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to junk dealers, and to add a new section to said tax Code, to be designated as section 182-a, in relation to dealers in second hand paper.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6456 of the Code of Virginia as last amended by chapter 78 of the act of assembly of 1926, in relation to marginal releases of liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 127 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to election of district officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 362 of the acts of assembly of 1916, approved March 20, 1916, which was an act to provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 19-f, 22 and 27-a of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond,” approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
An ACT directing the disposition of the interest on investments made with the money which remains of a fund appropriated by the United States government on June 25, 1908, to pay the Virginia National Guard from the time of call until muster into the service of the United States for the Spanish-American war, by payment thereof to the United Spanish War Veterans.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 295 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester, Mathews and King William to appropriate funds for the purpose of contributing towards placing markers upon the graves of Confederate soldiers buried in such counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 27 and 31 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the seal and the flag of the State.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 3516-a and 3516-b, relating to the compensation of fee officers and providing for the creation and expenses of a State fee commission.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 204 and 209 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to absent voters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section (s) of section two of chapter sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, 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
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Petersburg by adding section 17 to chapter four thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2184 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the issuance of duplicate warrants by the comptroller or State treasurer, where the original warrant has been lost.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2756 of the Code of Virginia, providing for audit of accounts of certain officers, boards and commissions in certain counties.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4829-a, authorizing police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, civil and police justices, and the clerk of the police court of any city having a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants to admit persons charged with criminal offenses to bail and to repeal chapter 433 of the acts of 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1673, 1680, 1684 and 1686 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, all of which sections relate to the practice of pharmacy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3141 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fire escapes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 7, 8 and 10 of chapter 450 of the acts of 1920, 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’
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 179-a, imposing a State license tax on fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, and practitioners of palmistry and phrenology.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 140 of the acts of assembly of 1906, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county’
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5125 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the assignment of dower, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 417 of the acts of 1928, being an act entitled “An act to authorize the councils of the cities to provide for the cutting of weeds and other foreign growth on vacant property,” so as to include in addition to cities and counties the towns within the provision of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 947, 948, 951, 953, 954, 957, and 969 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and changing its name to the Virginia State College for Negroes, and abolishing the board of visitors thereof; and to repeal sections 949, 950, 952, 955, 956, 958, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 965, and 968 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to said institution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of chapter 214 of the acts of assembly of 1926, entitled an act to establish a State farm for defective misdemeanants on the Powhatan side of the State prison farm or other place; to define the classes of defective misdemeanants to be transferred thereto; to provide for the location, construction, government thereof; to provide for the allowance and anticipation of the per diem costs of jail inmates and for the transportation of prisoners there, approved March 19, 1926, and to enlarge the same to include any other misdemeanants, and felons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, concerning the pay of supervisors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the filling of vacancies in certain city, town and district offices
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33 of chapter 161 of the acts of assembly of 1918, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 367 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the protection of books and other property in the State library, or other repository of public records; punishment for defacement, destruction and removal of same.
An ACT to amend and re-enect section 4902 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to expense of keeping juries together.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of the act entitled 'An act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the ‘Virginia banking act,’ and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof,' and to repeal so much of chapter 285 of the acts of 1924, as may be in conflict with the provisions hereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 869 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the agricultural experiment station at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, so as to provide for a survey of the soils of the State, and to appropriate money to carry out such work.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 526 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to forest reserves, as amended by chapter 416 of the acts of assembly of 1920; and to add a new section to the said Code, to be designated as section 2495-a, immediately following section 2495, in relation to the disposition of real estate sold for delinquent taxes and bid in by treasurers for the benefit of the State, and of certain waste and unappropriated lands of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to deposit of bonds with the treasurer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 835 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of the board of visitors for the Virginia Military Institute.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6298 of the Code of Virginia as to substituted trustee.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of the charter of the town of Fairfax as originally enacted by chapter 282 of the acts of assembly of 1892, and last amended by chapter 476 of the acts of assembly of 1920 and to provide for a referendum on the question of the adoption of said amendments.
An ACT to define the term “public uses,’ to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, and to provide for condemnation, purchase, and gift of property in cities and towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6043 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6452 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 235 of the acts of the general assembly of 1920, relating to liens on crops for advances to farmers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2569 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to relief from fines and forfeited recognizances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 684 of the Code of Virginia, as enacted in law by chapter 471 of the acts of 1928, relating to the compulsory attendance of children at school and providing for the compulsory education of blind and deaf children.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April 18, 1927.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 573 of the acts of 1926, entitled an act to regulate the parking of vehicles in the capitol square, and to protect the grass therein
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4865 of the Code of Virginia, relating to prosecutions for crime and prescribing the form of indictment for murder and manslaughter
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4697 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the selling or giving away of toy firearms.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3006 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the jurisdiction of corporate authorities of cities and towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees for sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 6471-a, relating to the entry of assignments of ee on judgment lien docket.

1932
An ACT to amend chapter 219 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered 5392-a, providing for the apportionment of taxes between life tenants and remaindermen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1085 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to duties of courts when a person before it appears to be feeble-minded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3249 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended relating to transportation of oysters out of Virginia, imposing bushel tax on oysters to be taken out of the State, and providing penalties for failure to pay tax.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto six new sections, numbered 2702-a to 2702-f, both inclusive, in relation to giving two or more counties the right to employ, appoint, or elect conjointly ministerial and executive officers, after the conjoint employment, appointment, or election of such officers has been adopted, in accordance with section 110 of the Constitution of Virginia, by a majority of the qualified voters of each such counties voting in an election held for that purpose, and prescribing penalties.

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6426 of the Code of Virginia, relating to mechanic’s liens, as last amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, [H B 194]
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6471 of the Code of Virginia relating to the lien of a judgment against purchaser for valuable consideration
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4570 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to working or transacting business on Sunday.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109-a thereof fifty-six new sections numbered 2773-n 1 to 2773-n 56, both inclusive, relating to the organization and government of counties, and providing for complete forms of county organization and government different from that provided for in article VII of the Constitution of Virginia, sections 110 to 115, both inclusive thereof, to become effective in any county in Virginia when submitted to the qualified voters thereof in an election held for such purpose and approved by a majority of those voting thereon, as is authorized by section 110 of the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 156 and 167 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to election ballots.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of chapter 407 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, concerning intoxicating liquors, as heretofore amended, the section here amended relating to driving while intoxicated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4989 of the Code of Virginia, relating to right of appeal in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of nonsupport; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties, and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6130 of the Code of Virginia, relating to confession of judgments in clerk’s office in vacation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to pay of supervisors
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 85 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions," approved February 28, 1918, as last amended by an act approved March 26, 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2726 of the Code of Virginia as last amended by an act approved March 27, 1930, in relation to boards of supervisors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 192 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license tax of peddlers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2724 of the Code of Virginia, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections designated 2724-a and 2724-b, both relating to the duties and powers of boards of supervisors in the allowance and settlement of claims against counties ; and to repeal section 2772 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3293 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3516-b of the Code of Virginia, relating to the State fee commission.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17, 19-f and 23 of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6456 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved February 27, 1930, in relation to marginal releases of liens.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Remington and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, which new section shall be known as section 4567-a, relating to the protection of bailors of horses, mules, automobiles or aeroplanes or any other animal or vehicle.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Norton, in Wise county"
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act of Virginia, entitled an act to revise, simplify, arrange and consolidate into one act the general game, inland fish and dog statutes of Virginia, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as “the game, inland fish and dog code of Virginia.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1045 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, relating to insane and feeble-minded persons.