Business

1922
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2 and 5 of article 2 and section 1 of article 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 2, 1914, and by an act approved March 1, 1916, and as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter incorporating the town of Eastville, in Northampton county, approved February 6, 1896, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 14, 2134, 27, 32, 35, 41, 95, 57, 63, 73 of an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecution for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 19, 1918, as heretofore amended, and to add to said act the following new sections, to be numbered sections 5%, 51%, 5%, 21%, 32%, 35%, 55-f, 57%4, 57%4-a, 70%4, 77, 78, respectively, and to be properly inserted serially as numbered in said act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 381, 382, 384 and 385 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 399 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston in the county of Halifax.
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 5867 and 5869 of the Code
An ACT to prevent deception in the sale of paint, turpentine, linseed oil and any substitute therefor; to provide for true labels for the same; and providing for enforcement thereof; and providing penalty for the violation thereof.
An ACT to provide for a municipal terminal or terminals for the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4145 and 4146 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prohibit the printing, stamping or impressing of words, figures, designs, pictures, emblems or advertisements on newspapers after the same shall have been issued for circulation, without first obtaining consent of the publisher so to do; to prohibit the circulation, distribution or Sale of a newspaper so printed, stamped or impressed; and to prescribe fines and penalties for the violation hereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2854 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920.
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.
An ACT to protect landlords against removal of crop by tenants
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6270 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the incorporation, establishment and operation of loan and savings institutions known as “credit unions.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Courtland in the county of Southampton
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 22, 23, 56 and 65 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all oon acts with reference thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6062 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3777 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the use or disposition of parts of the turnpike ‘road from Rustburg to Lynchburg in Campbell county not taken over or used by the State highway commission in the State highway.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00) to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned; by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiner of the banking division of the State corporation commission in respect to licenses; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1918, sections 14, 16, 17 and 18 of which said act were amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1920.
An ACT to require persons or corporations doing business under an assumed or fictitious name, and persons doing business as copartners to sign, acknowledge, and file a certificate; to designate what the certificate shall contain; to provide for recordation of such certificate, to fix fees of the clerk, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act.
An ACT to authorize the commissioner of the department of game and inland fisheries to issue non-resident hunting and fishing licenses to United States field inspectors of the bureau of biological survey, department of agriculture, and United States field inspectors of the bureau of fisheries, department of commerce.
An ACT to authorize contractors who are required by public officers, boards, commissions or agencies to file certified checks with bids, to file bonds in lieu thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 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 heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6063 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to give the consent of the State of Virginia to such individuals or company as may be granted permission by the Secretary of War of the United States to erect and operate a hotel upon such site as may be granted therefor on the United States Military Reservations at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2215, 2228 and 2229 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 2226 and 2227 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to create the Hampton Roads port commission, define its duties and powers and to provide funds for carrying on its work.
An ACT to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation within the Commonwealth of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, lime-sulphur compounds, and other insecticides and fungicides, and regulating traffic therein; providing for inspection of such materials, and imposing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 41 and 43 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, of chapter 8, of the charter of the city of Danville, Virginia, approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, relating to temporary loans, the borrowing of money, the limit of outstanding indebtedness, the issuing of certain bonds in serial form, to be made payable in annual instalments, to the right of the city council to create debts and to the maintenance of a sinking fund for certain bonds of said city; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1901, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1902, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 12, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved on the fifth day of February, 1916, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4163 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to encourage the co-operative marketing of farm products in Virginia, to provide for and authorize the incorporation of co-operative marketing associations or exchanges and the licensing to do business in Virginia of similar corporations created in other States under similar laws.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 134 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
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 11 and 23 of the charter of the town of Salem, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3780, as heretofore amended, 3781, 3786, 3788, 3810, as heretofore amended, 3820, 3822, 3851, 3854, 3872 and 3876, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5189 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, and as further amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1585, 1586, 1587, 1588, 1589, 1590, 1592, 1593 and 1595, and to repeal section 1591 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4042, contained in chapter 159 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to telegraph and telephone companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1245, 1246, 1247 and 1248 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2945 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920.

1923es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5189 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, and as further amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, and as further amended by an act approved February 18, 1922.
An ACT providing for the regulation, supervision and control of persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation on the improved public highways of this State which are, or may hereafter be declared to be, parts of the State highway system or any of the county highway systems; declaring motor vehicle carriers, as herein defined, to be common carriers, transportation companies and public service corporations within the meaning of the law; and prescribing ana im- posing license fees and providing for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5867 and 5869 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 23, 1922, in relation to the business of the supreme court of appeals to be done at Richmond and Staunton.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to borrow money by short time loans to enable it to meet the expense of destroying cedar trees for the eradication of cedar rust as provided by statute and to authorize said board to provide for the payment of the principal and interest by special levies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled "An act defining cold storage and cold storage warehouses, and regulating the storage of articles of food, and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and providing an appropriation for carrying out the requirements of the act," approved September 9, 1919, so as to regulate the sale of cold storage goods by public or private, or combined public and private, cold storage warehousemen, and wholesale and retail dealers, and operators of hotels, restaurants, and public eating places.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 53 of an act entitled "An act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the city of Bristol and all powers heretofore or hereafter exercised by them while in office to be legal and valid," approved March 19, 1920, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1922.
An ACT to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 25 and 29 of an act approved February 18, 1922, entitled “An act to encourage the co-operative marketing of farm products in Virginia, to provide for and authorize the incorporation of co-operative marketing associations or exchanges and the licensing to do business in Virginia of similar corporations created in other States under similar laws.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled "An act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 22, 1871, to incorporate the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for same," approved March 12, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 9 and 11 of chapter 359 of the acts of 1920, entitled “An act 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 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 28, 1918.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4104 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 28, 1922.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to levy county license taxes and fees on motor vehicles operated in the said county for the carriage of passengers or freight for hire or compensation on or over the public roads of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of the charter of the town of Manassas, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1906.
An ACT concerning depositories for the funds of Rockingham county and the interest on such funds.

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4114 of the Code of Sant
An ACT to regulate the sale of kosher meat and meat preparations.
An ACT authorizing the town of Graham to convey to W. B. Morton and Company, Incorporated, certain real estate in the said town.
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 170 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of sinking fund commissioners to accept seventy-four (74) shares of preferred stock and seventy-four (74) shares of common stock, (share trust certificates) of the New England Oil Refining Company, in full discharge of all claims of the Commonwealth of Virginia against the New England Oil Corporation, and to authorize the auditor of public accounts to issue to the receivers of the New England Oil Corporation a receipt in full discharge of such claims.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2132 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, relating to motor vehicle license taxes.
An ACT to provide for the centralized purchasing of all materials, equipment, and supplies of every description, the whole or a part of the costs thereof is to be paid out of the State treasury, with certain exceptions; to continue the State purchasing commission, heretofore created, and the State purchasing agent, heretofore designated, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the said commission and agent; to prescribe penalties; to establish an advisory standardization board; and to repeal an act entitled an act to create a State purchasing commission, to provide for and designate a State purchasing agent, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the said purchasing commission and purchasing agent, approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6020 of the Code of vee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4227 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to define vinegar; to prohibit the manufacture or sale of adulterated or misbranded vinegar; and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 106 and section 1063 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution,
An ACT declaring that filled milk, as defined in this act, is an adulterated article of food, injurious to the public health, and that its sale constitutes a fraud upon the public; and prohibiting the manufacture, sale or exchange of any filled milk and its possession with intent to sell or exchange the wt
An ACT to enact into law the rules and regulations of the dairy and food commissioner fixed and established by and with the approval of the board of agriculture and immigration, concerning food and food products and the sanitation of all places used in the manufacture, packing, storing, sale or distribution of food or food products.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1173 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising
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 prem the procedure.
An ACT to provide for the trial of civil cases by a civil and police
An ACT giving the bank the option to refuse payment of a check
An ACT to establish and maintain a free employment bureau
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, approved July 9, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 7, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1692 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT defining liability of collecting bank sending items direct to bank on which drawn or where made payable.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6443 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the town of Norton to exchange a part of the land covered by Seventh street in said town, with Greever Motor Sales, Incorporated, for apart of its land that is now being occupied by the street and sidewalk on said Seventh street.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Coeburn, in Wise county, Virginia, approved February 23, 1894, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to raise revenue for the support of the government.
An ACT fixing the liability of a bank to its depositor for payment of forged or raised checks.
An ACT relating to the practice of law, and preventing persons, firms and corporations, not practicing attorneys, from appearing before any magistrate, civil or police justice, civil justice court, or any other court, to represent any claim or cause of any person, firm or corporation, unless the person, firm or corporation has a property interest in said claim or cause; preventing evasions of this act and crexeribing penalties.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of counties and the councils of cities and towns, and the officers of counties, cities and towns who are empowered to purchase supplies for local public use, to seek the aid and co-operation of the State purchasing agent in purchasing such supplies; and to make it the duty of the State purchasing agent to encourage the seeking of such aid and co-operation, and to render the same when sought.
An ACT to prohibit the false certification of a check and to require the amount of any check certified to be forthwith charged against the account of the drawer, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia, approved March 12, 1904, approved Marea ie 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 43 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3813 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT authorizing the town of South Hill to convey to Bright Leaf Warehousing Corporation a certain portion of Virginia street in said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6436 of the Code of Me ary
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3799 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT relating to deeds of assignment for the benefit of creditors, and prescribing certain requirements to be complied with.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county, approved Me's 10 1906.
An ACT to legalize, ratify and confirm certain taxes heretofore paid, levied or assessed upon the shares of stocks of banks, banking associations, trust and security companies.
An ACT to provide how jobber of motor vehicle fuels doing business in this State, who sells and delivers such fuels without this State, for use without this State, may be reimbursed for the taxes previously paid to this State thereon; and prescribing penalty.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 6429-a, so as to provide, in the mechanics’ lien law, how the owner or general contractor may be made personally liable to subcontractors, laborers, or material men.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4305 of the Code of BBs