Amusement
| An ACT Incorporating the Rockbridge County Fair |
| An ACT to Authorize the Lynchburg Agricultural and Mechanical Society to Appoint Police, &c. |
| An ACT to Encourage Agricultural and Industrial Fairs |
| An ACT to Incorporate The Virginia and Tennessee Border Fair Association in Washington County. |
| An ACT to Change the Name of the Augusta County Fair to the Baldwin Augusta Fair. |
| An ACT to authorize the Virginia and Tennessee Border Fair Association, of Washington County, to Dispose of its Surplus Lands. |
| An ACT to incorporate The Lynchburg Club. |
| An ACT to authorize the directors of the Baldwin Augusta county fair to borrow money. |
| An ACT to amend the charter of the Baldwin-Augusta Fair. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the purchase of Temple farm and Moore house. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Mozart Association |
| An ACT to establish and incorporate the Augusta County Fair. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Union Auxiliary Club of Norfolk. |
| An ACT to make additional provisions for paying the debt of Patrick county on account of certain Bonds issued to the Danville and New River railroad company. |
| An ACT to authorize the city of Winchester and county of Frederick to lease, give, or sell, certain land for the erection of an opera-house, etc. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 102 of the Coue of 1873, in regard to Vicious Animals. |
| An ACT to exempt from taxation the property of the Baldwin-Augusta Fair, so long as used for fair purposes. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act passed January 15, 1867, entitled an act to establish and incorporate the Augusta county fair, as amended by an act approved January 20, 1874, changing the name to the Baldwin Augusta fair. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Owl Club, No. 1, of Norfolk, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 9 of the charter of the city of Lynchburg. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Gentlemen’s driving club. |
| An ACT granting the superintendent of any fair grounds or cemetery the same powers as a constable for certain purposes in such fair grounds or cemetery. |
| An ACT to amend the third section of an act approved March 1, 1886, creating the Baldwin Fair association, enlarging the powers of the association, &c. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Shenandoah driving park. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act approved March Ist, 1886, creating the Baldwin district fair association, enlarging the powers of the association, etc. |
| An ACT to incorporate Assembly park association. |
| An ACT for the relief of L. R. Dodd from erroneous assessment. |
| An ACT relating to the entry and riding or driving of horses at places where purses, premiums or stakes are competed for. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Cleveland cornet band, of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide for the better preservation of order at race-courses, fair-grounds, base-ball and foot-ball parks, and other places where athletic sports are held in the county of Henrico. |
| AN ACT to provide for imposing a specific license tax on slot machines into which are dropped pennies or nickels or coins of other denominations and used in the state to dispose of cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum or other articles of merchandise, and on musical devices, &c., which operate on the nickel in the slot principle to increase the revenues of the state. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section eighty-seven of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required |
| An ACT authorizing inspectors of oysters to assign to the owners, managers, or lessees of hotels ground under the water for bathing ground. |
| An ACT to provide for the better preservation of order at race-courses, fair-grounds, base-ball and foot-ball parks, and other places where athletic sports are held. |
| An ACT protecting and enlarging the powers of the Pulaski agricultural and mechanical society. |
| An Act to prohibit winter racing in the state of Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Pamunkey Game Club. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Industrial and Agricultural Association. |
| An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the Country Club, of Norfolk, Virginia. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia agricultural and live stock association. |
| An ACT to authorize the town of Abingdon to take control of the hall in said town, known as Temperance hall, and to provide for repairing and enlarging the same. |
| An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the Ocean View pleasure pier company. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 555 and 659 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to licenses. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 509, acts of assembly 1895-’96, relating to how members of State board of veterinary examiners qualify. |
| An ACT to impose a license tax upon gypsies and like strolling companies. |
| An ACT to make guards at the Jamestown exposition conservators of the peace. |
| An ACT to prevent the shooting of pigeons, fowls, or other birds for amusement, and renting of premises for such purposes. |
| An ACT permitting owners and operators of permanent parks for public amusement which shall be open for the public for at least three months during each year to pay a specific license in lieu of the licenses provided for in sections 98, 99, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 122, 139 of the tax law entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and pay the interest on the public debt, and provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and further amended by an act, approved February 19, 1904. |
| An ACT to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of an automatic moving picture machine, phonograph, graphophone or similar musical machine, when the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107, section 108, and section 109 of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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. |
| An ACT to require license taxes to be paid by all traveling circuses and carnivals exhibiting or giving performances or shows outside of the enclosures of all agricultural fair associations and within the limits of the county or city in which any annual fair is being held or within one week before or after the week in which such fair is to be held, or being held. |
| An ACT to amend an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine, phonograph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, when the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107, section 108, and section 109 of an act approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 107, section 108, and section 109 of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 18, 1908, entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any moving picture machine, phonograph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, when the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910. |
| An ACT to provide for participation by the State of Virginia in the Panama exposition at San Francisco, to appoint a commission, and to appropriate money for that purpose. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Hanover county to appropriate a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars in any one year for the purpose of aiding district and county fairs. |
| An ACT to allow the Richmond Yacht Club, incorporated, to build a wharf in James river, on its property in Chesterfield county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government, 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 amended by an act approved March 19, 1915 |
| An ACT to prohibit discrimination by common carrier, innkeeper, proprietor, or lessee of any place of public amusement, or any agent or representative of such, against persons lawfully wearing the uniform of the military service of the State or United States, and providing penalties therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 106 and 106% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay 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 amended by an act approved March 19, 1915, classifying theatres, public performances, exhibitions, etc., and naming licenses thereon. |
| An ACT for the protection and preservation of the inter-county fair grounds at Doswell, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 106% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution |
| An ACT to prevent minors from frequenting, playing in or loitering in public pool rooms, billiard rooms, outside of the corporate limits of towns and cities. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county, Virginia, to appropriate sufficient funds out of the county fund for the purpose of converting one of the floors of the old schoolhouse in the town of Culpeper, Virginia, into a public auditorium. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107 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 requiring that every person, firm, company, or corporation who exhibits performances in a dog show, pony show, side show, trained animal show, carnival, circus, menagerie and circus, or a moving picture show, or any other show, exhibition or performance similar thereto, within one mile of the corporate limits of the town of Coeburn, Virginia, shall procure from the said town such license as would be required if said show were exhibited within the corporate limits of the said town. |
| An ACT to regulate motion picture films and reels; providing a system of examination, approval and regulation thereof, and of the banners, posters and other like advertising matter used in connection therewith; creating the board of censors; and providing penalties for the violation |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 109 and 111% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schols and to pay the interest on the public debt and to pro- vide a special tax for pensions as authorized by scction 189 of the Constitution |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 108 and 109 of an act entitled. |
| AN ACT to provide for the regulation of public dance halls located in counties adjoining cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and in counties having a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile according to the last United States census. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107 of the tax bill, as heretofore amended, in relation to licenses for shows, carnivals and other exhibitions and performances. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 156 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to moving picture shows. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 154 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to tax and time of exhibitions and advertisements of circuses and carnivals. |
| 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 sections 4426 and 4427 of the Code of Virginia, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4426-a, said sections relating to fights between men and fights between men and animals and amateur boxing matches and exhibitions. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gordonsville, Virginia; to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Quantico in the county of Prince William. |
| 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 |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to slot machines. |
| An ACT to prohibit “marathons,” “marathon dances,” “walkathons,” “skatathons,” “bikathons,” and certain other mental or physical endurance contests or performances, but excepting certain bona fide athletic contests ; and to prescribe penalties. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 157 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to licenses on theatrical and other performances, exhibitions, etc. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 153 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to carnivals, shows, circuses, menageries, and other like amusements, so as to prohibit certain exhibitions and performances in which agricultural products are included without the payment of license taxes therefore. |
| An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Haysi, in Dickenson County, Virginia. |
| An ACT to authorize the school board of Scott county to rent, lease or otherwise permit to be occupied and used, high school buildings and grounds for holding county fairs, carnivals, and similar exhibitions on such premises |
| 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 provide a new charter for the town of Leesburg, in the county of Loudoun, Virginia. and to repeal all prior acts and amendments thereto creating a charter for the said town. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 152 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to amusement parks and amusements. |
| An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto, to be numbered Section 153-a, so as to authorize boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties to impose county license taxes on carnivals, shows, circuses and menageries. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 51 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Galax, situated in part in the county of Carroll and in part in the county of Grayson, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act,’ approved February 25, 1922, said amendment providing for licensing, or prohibiting the holding of, shows, circuses, carnivals, fairs, et cetera, in said town, or within one mile thereof. |
| An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Upperville, in Fauquier county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the regulation of public dance halls located in counties adjoining cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and in counties having a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile, according to the last United States census” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the license taxation of slot machines, vending machines, and slot machine operators. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 153 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to carnivals, shows, circuses, menageries, and other like amusements, so as to exempt industrial arts exhibits and fairs from obtaining licenses and paying license taxes. |
| An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An Act to provide for the regulation of public dance halls located in counties adjoining cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and in counties having a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile according to the last United States census," approved March 9, 1926, as amended, so as to make it apply to public dance halls in all the counties in the State, and to authorize the boards of supervisors or other governing bodies to impose license taxes on the operators of such public dance halls. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 7 of the Act to Provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 153 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to carnivals, shows, circuses, menageries, and other like amusements, so as to require their registration and the giving of an appropriate bond. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Wise, in the county of Wise; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office, not inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts, in conflict with this act. |
| An ACT to prohibit, with certain exceptions, the sale, the offering and exposing for sale, and the use of, fireworks during the period defined in this act, to provide for the issuance of permits for the use of fireworks, under certain conditions, and to prescribe penalties. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 156 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to moving picture shows. |
| An ACT to permit the use and leasing of school buildings and grounds in Scott County for fairs, carnivals and similar exhibitions; to prescribe the terms upon which buildings and grounds may be so used and leased; to provide for the disposition of rents received therefrom; and to repeal Chapter 361, Acts of 1936. |
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