Amendments

1934
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 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 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, approved March 23, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4938 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the cost of printing records, and to certain sections applicable to criminal and civil cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6469 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to lis pendens and attachment.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Quantico in the county of Prince William.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the confession of judgment 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 authorize the Director of the Division of Markets, with the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, to co-operate with Federal officials, national, district and State committees and supervisory bodies in establishing and enforcing codes and marketing agreements adopted under the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Act and amendments thereto and other similar Acts of Congress; to make agreements for carrying out the provisions of this act and the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Act and amendments thereto and other similar Acts of Congress; to appoint, supervise and dismiss inspectors and representatives for carrying out the purposes of this act; to receive fees and moneys for carrying out the purposes of this act and to provide for the distribution thereof; to adopt and make effective any or all codes and agreements approved by Federal officials under the Agricultural Adjustment Act and acts amendatory thereto and similar Acts of Congress; to provide that such code or marketing agreement when approved by the Governor shall become effective in intrastate commerce in this State; and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boone Mill, in the county of Franklin, Virginia, approved April 11, 1927, by adding a new section thereto to be designated as section 8-a, providing how persons convicted of violating town ordinances may be punished ; to amend and re-enact section 9 of the said act, said section being in relation to the rate of tax the town may levy; and to provide for a referendum on the question of the adoption of said amendment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6338 of the Code of Virginia relating to how persons desiring to present petitions for appeals, writs of error and supersedeas may procure suspension of execution.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 142 thereof a new section numbered 3615-a, providing that certificates to pilots issued by the Board of Pilot Commissioners shall expire on the 31st day of December, 1934, and on the 31st day of December of each year thereafter, and providing for proration of license taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the appointment of trustees for the town of York, approved March 16, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amending charters and changing location of the principal offices, of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1056 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1908, providing a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 71-A, relating to the appointment of the coroner for the said city, and providing his duties and compensation.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 6240-a, permitting the introduction of evidence in mitigation of damages in actions against publishers, owners, editors, reporters and employees of newspapers, magazines and periodicals under section 5781 of the Code of Virginia or for libel or defamation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 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, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain, the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic and use of the State highway system, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations, approved September 5, 1919, and to repeal all other sections of the Code and acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 24, 1922, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to lists of persons who have paid poll taxes, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3399 of the Code of Virginia, relating to recording deeds and other instruments.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections to be designated as section 3109-a and section 3118-a, providing respectively for the appointment of clerks of civil and police justices courts and for the appointment of bailiffs of civil justices courts, prescribing their duties and providing for their compensation; and to repeal section 3110 of the Code of Virginia relating to bailiffs for civil and police justices courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1l-a of an act entitled a1 act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 31, 1932, as heretofore amended, said section relating to the manner in which any county withdrawing from the operation of said act may bring itself back under the operation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6035 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to interpleader.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 375 of the Code of Virginia of 1930, concerning the duties of the Attorney General.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4786 of the Code of Virginia, relating to terms of imprisonment.
An ACT to amend section 3106 of the Code of Virginia, which said section is in chapter 124 of the said Code, on the subject of civil and police justices and civil justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to qualifications and disqualifications of voters at general elections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 8, 14, 16, 17, 18, 23 and 24 of chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, entitled an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act, approved March 29, 1932.
An ACT to amend chapter 169 of the Code of Virginia by adding two new sections thereto, to be designated as sections 4251-a and 4251-b, providing for the conversion of stock life insurance corporations into mutual life insurance corporations; prescribing the procedure for the accomplishment of such conversion; and providing how stock life insurance corporations may acquire their own stock.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 133 thereof a new section numbered 3424-a, providing in what courts disbarment and suspension proceedings against attorneys at law may be had and how services may be had.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2. 17, 22, 23. 28. 32, 33, 34, 39, 43, 44, 46, 53, 58, 62, 63, 75, 84, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 105, 106, 107, 111, 112, 121 and 122 of chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly for 1932 entitled an act to revise, simplify, rearrange and consolidate into one act which shall constitute and be designated and cited as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia,” the various statutes of the Commonwealth concerning the registration and licensing of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, the licensing of chauffeurs, the collection of fees and disposition of funds collected, the operation of vehicles on the public roads, highways, streets and alleys, the Division of Motor Vehicles and the director of said division, the powers and duties of said division and director, and the penalties for violations of the provisions of certain such statutes; and to repeal all statutes and acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 26, 1932.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5249 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to probate of wills, appointment and qualification of appraisers, personal representatives and curators, by clerks and deputies, and appeals therefrom.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 378 of the Code of Virginia, 1930, concerning the office of the Attorney General.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies other than life, providing a penalty for any violation hereof and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 16, 1920, so as to provide how the charters of such and other similar companies may be amended.
An ACT to amend section 6501 of the Code of Virginia which said section is in chapter 272 of the said Code on the subject of executions, and the means of enforcing the recoveries of money otherwise than by such writ.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6092 of the Code of Virginia, relating to statements of contributory negligence.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 157 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to licenses on theatrical and other performances, exhibitions, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5431 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to securities in which fiduciaries may invest funds.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to require the approval of the qualified voters of Dickenson county on certain local questions; to prohibit the board of supervisors of the said county from appropriating the county levy for certain purposes; to limit the rates of levy in the said county; and to invest the court or judge with certain authority.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to school boards.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4696 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of opium, marihuana, loco weed, and other sedative, narcotic and hypnotic drugs, chemicals and substances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the suspension of operator’s and chauffeur’s licenses and registration certificate, and the right of non-residents to operate a motor vehicle, in certain cases; to prescribe procedure where damages to property and/or injuries to persons have been caused by the operation of motor vehicles, and to prescribe penalties, approved March 24, 1932, and to provide for the collection and distribution of fees from judgment creditors requesting suspension of operator’s, chauffeur’s and motor vehicle licenses.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter two hundred sixty-four thereof a new section numbered 6298-a, providing for the appointment of substitute trustees in discretionary trusts, and the exercise of personal confidence and discretionary powers by such substituted trustees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 181 and section 238 as heretofore amended of the Code of Virginia, relating to election poll books and ballots.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex, approved February 12, 1894, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, entitled an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3l-a of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, 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, approved February 28, 1928, so as to authorize the hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or the judge thereof in vacation to appoint a bail commissioner or bail commissioners for the city of Roanoke, to provide for the disposition of fees collected by a bail commissioner, to provide for the compensation of a bail commissioner, to authorize the council of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, to fix the compensation of such bail commissioner and to authorize certain officers of the city of Roanoke to admit persons to bail.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 133 thereof a new section numbered 3425-a prohibiting actions for words used in proceedings and investigations as to the professional conduct of attorneys
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3433 of the Code of Virginia of 1930, concerning the salary and mileage of the Attorney General, his assistants, secretaries and stenographers and contingent expenses of his office.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 5409-a, fixing the time within which accounts of fiduciaries holding principal sums of five hundred dollars or less, shall be exhibited before a commissioner of accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6299 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the substitution of trustees in place of trustees who have died, resigned, removed or declined the trust, so as to validate decrees or orders of substitution heretofore made by courts of competent jurisdiction.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6457 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to assignees of debts secured by mortgages, deeds of trust, vendor’s or mechanic’s liens.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109 thereof 13 new sections numbered 2726-m to 2726-y, both inclusive, vesting in boards of supervisors power to cause county buildings to be insured, to provide suitable rooms for county purposes and to determine what allowances, payable out of county treasuries, shall be made to county officers, and to repeal section 2726 and section 2726-a to 2726-1, both inclusive, relating to the same matters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3392 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to recording writings and other instruments.
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 heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4852 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to grand juries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 9, and 18-a, of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved on the 22nd day of March, 1924, entitled an act to provide for a new charter for the city of Roanoke, 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19-f, 19-h, 57 and 105 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 38 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, approved March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended, defining the powers of the council of said city and relating to when certain ordinances shall be published and take effect.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 185 thereof a new section numbered 4705-a prohibiting persons from advertising in newspapers to draw wills or have wills drawn and prescribing penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 565 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the services of the Auditor of Public Accounts to counties and cities.
An ACT to legalize, regulate and control the manufacture, bottling, sale, distribution, transportation, handling, advertising, possession, dispensing, drinking and use of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout, and all liquids, beverages and articles containing alcohol obtained by distillation, fermentation or otherwise; to create a Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and a Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and to define and provide for the functions, duties and powers thereof; to provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, and expenses of such Board and its members, officers, agents and employees; to provide for licensing and taxing manufacturers, bottlers, wholesalers and retailers of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout, and all liquids, beverages and articles containing alcohol, by the State and the counties, cities, and towns thereof; to impose excise taxes on such liquids, beverages and articles; to appropriate money for the administration of the act and to provide for the disposition of revenues collected under the act; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of articles declared contraband hereunder; to authorize the dismissal and termination of pending warrants, indictments, charges and prosecutions involving violations of laws, ordinances and by-laws pertaining to liquids, beverages and articles containing alcohol, to authorize the restoration of certain property seized in connection therewith, and to authorize the suspension of sentences imposed for violations of such laws, ordinances and by-laws; to make provision whereby the penalties for the violation of acts repealed by this act may be the same as those provided in this act; to impose penalties for violations of the act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, and to provide that this act shall constitute and be designated and cited as “The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.”

1936
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5431 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to securities in which fiduciaries may invest funds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled 'an act to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon,' approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2708 of the Code of Virginia prohibiting city and town officers from being interested in contracts with their city or town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act for the protection of squirrels in the counties of Caroline, Henrico and King George,” approved March 26, 1932, so as to eliminate Caroline and Henrico counties therefrom, and to include the counties of Stafford, Prince William, Spotsylvania and Fairfax therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4436 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to wilful burning of property with intent to injure insurer, and how punished. H B 170
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4899-a, providing for the disqualification, in felony cases in counties, of jurors who reside within two miles of the place where the felony is alleged to have been committed, upon objection of the Commonwealth or the accused.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6012 of the Code of Virginia, relating to juries for the trial of, and the waiver of trial by jury in, civil cases.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 871l-a, providing for the inspection of potatoes and other farm products by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration; and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitléd an act to create and maintain a State board of crop pest commissioners, and to define its duties and powers
An ACT to amend Chapter 6 of an act entitled “An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,’ approved March 11, 1875, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7, in relation to bringing actions against the city for damages.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3106 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals and removals from civil and police justices and civil justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 5 and 15 of an act entitled an act concerning agricultural seeds, and to repeal sections 1138 to 1153, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, approved March 7, 1924, as heretofore amended, and to repeal section 4 of the said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1771 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to assessment tax roll and amount to be assessed; collection of assessments and sale of lands to pay delinquent assessments in drainage districts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to prisoners on the State convict road force, so as to make the same applicable to prisoners in chain gangs, at the State Farm, and at the State Industrial Farm for Women, and so as to provide for certain credits against unpaid fines and costs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amending charters and changing location of principal officers of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, the said section relating to common nuisances; how persons punished for maintaining, or aiding and abetting or knowingly associating with others in maintaining same; bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 638, 641, 642, 643, 649, 653, 655, 656, 657, 660, 667, 669, 673, 674, 683, 684, 688, 695, 700, 707, 708, and 716 of the Code of Virginia, Sections 611, 612, 638, 642, 649, 653, 655, 656, 660, 673, 683, 684, 688 and 695 of which have heretofore been amended, all of which sections relate to the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, division superintendents, county and city school boards, the literary fund, and to the establishment, maintenance and administration of the public school system, so as, among other things, to make certain of said sections applicable to cities, to validate county bond elections, to prescribe qualifications of certain teachers for purposes of compulsory education; to provide for settlements of treasurers with school boards, and to prohibit school boards from employing their members for certain purposes; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered six hundred and ninety-eight, providing for the levying of taxes and the appropriation of moneys in counties, cities and towns for public school purposes, and to repeal section six hundred and ninety-eight-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the same matter, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered seven hundred and forty-one, relating to the qualifications of drivers of school buses and the methods by which their fitness shall be determined; and to prohibit the school board from employing certain persons related to the Division Superintendent.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section forty-two hundred and sixty-seven of chapter one hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2707 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to supervisors not being interested in certain contracts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4272 of the Code of Virginia relating to assessment or co-operative life or casualty corporations, companies, societies or associations.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4693-a, providing how the committing, or permitting, of any act prohibited by any one or more of sections 4676 to 4693, both inclusive, may be enjoined and restrained, and to prescribe the method of procedure for such purpose, said Code sections being in relation to gaming, gambling, betting and other similar offenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 20 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 an act entitled “An act to prevent the trapping of foxes in the counties of Albemarle, Nelson and Amherst,” approved March 16, 1920, so as to omit from such act the county of Amherst.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled "An act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to building and loan associations, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia building and loan association act, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for violations thereof," approved March 5, 1932, as heretofore amended, so as to enlarge the powers of building and loan associations to make loans and to authorize such associations to have indebtedness secured by mortgages and deeds of trust, and shares, certificates and deposit accounts of such associations insured under the provisions of the National housing act, and to further amend the said Virginia building and loan association act, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto two new sections, numbered 23-b and 23-c, providing for the conversion of State building and loan associations into Federal savings and loan associations and Federal savings and loan associations into State building and loan associations, prescribing the procedure to be followed, and setting forth the rights, powers, duties, obligations and liabilities of such associations upon conversion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4214 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the lien of policyholders on deposits of insurance companies with the State Treasurer and the enforcement thereof.
An ACT to re-number Section 356 of the Code as Section 347-1; to re-number Section 358 of the Code as Section 347-2; to re-number Section 368 of the Code as Section 347-3; to re-number Section 369 of the Code as Section 347-4; to re-number Section 370 of the Code as Section 347-5; to re-number Section 371 of the Code as Section 347-6; to re-number Section 372 of the Code as Section 347-7; to re-number Section 373 of the Code as Section 347-8; to re-number Section 374 of the Code as Section 347-9; to re-number Section 358-a of the Virginia Code of 1930, as Section 347-10 of the Code of Virginia, and as re-numbered to amend and re-enact said Code sections.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section numbered 322, providing for the appointment, duties and expenses of Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4694-a, prohibiting the manufacture, owning, storing, keeping, possessing, selling, exposing for sale, renting, lending, letting, giving away, transportation, operation and use of, and offering to do any of such acts with reference to, certain machines, apparatus or devices, herein defined as slot machines ; providing penalties for violations; and providing for the seizure and confiscation of such machines, apparatus and devices together with all moneys and tokens therein.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 2769, fixing the compensation and mileage of members of boards of supervisors of counties, and to repeal Section 2769-a of the Code of Virginia relating to similar matters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3780 and 3792 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to amendments of charters of corporations after organization, and powers to create two or more kinds of stock of corporations, and increase or decrease the stock and providing for redemption of stock or dividends thereon.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 2806-a providing for the pay and allowances to overseers of the poor, and to repeal section 2806 of the Code of Virginia relating to the same matters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 14 of an act entitled "an act to enable counties, cities and towns to secure the benefits of an act of the Congress of the United States of America, approved June 16, 1933, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, and any acts amendatory thereof and any acts supplemental thereto and revisions thereof, and any further act of the Congress of the United States of America delegating powers to undertake any purpose or purposes in aid of the financing of which the President of the United States or any other Federal agency is now or hereafter authorized and empowered, through the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works or through such other agencies as may be designated or created, to make grants or loans; delegating powers to contract debts, borrow money and issue bonds therefor; prescribing the mode of procedure for, and regulating the issuance of such bonds, and providing for the payment thereof; authorizing agreements with the holders of such bonds and providing for the remedies of such holders; and repealing inconsistent provisions of all laws general or special of the Commonwealth," approved September 7, 1933, so as to extend the effective date of certain provisions of said act until July 1, 1938.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the sale, conveyance and transfer by corporations, with certain exceptions, of the whole of their property, including good will, to any person, or corporation authorized to acquire the same, save that a corporation organized to conduct the business of banks, savings banks and/or trust companies, can only sell, convey or transfer such property, including good will, to another domestic corporation organized for the purpose of carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank and/or trust company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4767 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to how attempts to commit offenses punished.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees for sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 20, 20-a and 21 of an act entitled "an act to provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission, to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the expense of administering this act; to authorize and empower counties, cities and towns to determine by ordinance, referendum, or otherwise, when boxing and wrestling contests may be held therein; to provide for boxing and wrestling contests for prizes or purses, or where an admission is charged, and limiting such boxing contests to fifteen rounds and wrestling matches by such rules as may be promulgated by the commission; to prescribe conditions under which licenses shall be issued and contests held; to declare that amateur boxing and wrestling contests conducted heretofore shall be subject to the provisions of this measure and under the sole jurisdiction of such commission in all cases wherein an admission fee is charged spectators to witness such amateur boxing and/or wrestling contests; to provide for licensing and taxing such boxing and wrestling matches and providing for the distribution of the moneys derived therefrom," approved March 29, 1934, said sections being in relation to licenses, permits, compensation of officers, referees, number of bouts of matches, and appropriation of money collected.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3413 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the Board of Law Examiners and qualifications and examination of applicants for membership to the bar.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1715, 1716, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1724, 1725 and 1726 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, as heretofore amended, and to add eleven new sections to the Code of Virginia, to be known and designated as sections 1715 (1), 1719-a, 1720-a, 1720-b, 1720-c, 1721-a, 1721-b, 1724-a, 1726-a, 1726-b and 1726-c, relating to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors, changing the name of said board from State Board of Embalming to State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors of Virginia, providing for the appointment and terms of members of said board, for the qualification of said members as to how said members shall qualify, for the meetings of said board, the election of officers of said board, for the adoption of rules and regulations by said board, for the establishment and conduct of schools; fixing the per diem of the members of said board, the compensation of its officers; prescribing the powers and duties of said board; authorizing the appointment of an inspector and providing for his authority and duties; providing for the qualification of applicants for a license, examination and licensing of embalmers, funeral directors and assistant funeral directors and the fees therefor; to prohibit false statements by applicants; to prohibit bribery and certain deceptive, misleading, improbable and unethical advertising, and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof; to require a license of persons employed by firms and corporations; to provide for the refusal, suspension or revocation of licenses and for appeals therefrom; to prohibit certain transactions between funeral directors and embalmers and burial associations and to provide penalties for the violation thereof; to require all funds collected by the State board to be paid into the State treasury, there to be retained until appropriated by law; to prescribe what shall constitute violations of this chapter and the penalties therefor; to prescribe certain definitions and to authorize the board to adopt certain rules and regulations; to provide for certain exceptions and exclusions from the act; and to declare each part of this act severable; and to repeal section 1717 of the Code of Virginia relating to membership of the State Board of Health.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to disabilities to hold office and exceptions thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 50, and 53 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, so as, among other things, to vest in members of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and persons designated by such board general police authority, to provide that judicial notice shall be taken of regulations of such board, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto the following new sections: Section 38-a, providing for the forfeiture and confiscation of certain automobiles, boats, aircraft and other conveyances; Section 48-a, imposing penalties for failing or refusing to obey certain subpoenas and for disturbing decorum of certain meetings; Section 49-a, providing for regulations and permits relating to transportation of the aforementioned alcoholic liquids, beverages and articles; Section 61-a, providing for introduction of chemical analyses as evidence; and Section 61-b, allowing previous convictions hereunder to be alleged and proved.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prescribe how a new day for the execution of the sentence of death shall be fixed, and dispensing with the presence of the person to be executed, approved March 20, 1922, so as to prescribe a new day for the execution of a sentence in case of a reprieve by the Governor.