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1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5431 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to investments that may be made by executors and other fiduciaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 8 of chapter 107 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “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 section 121 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to recordation taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3810 and 3865 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4235 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 514 of the acts of assembly of 1922, page 804, as to the filing list of agents of insurance companies.
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto new section to be numbered section 171-a, in relation to wholesale merchandise brokers who sell only to wholesalers or manufacturers, and whose gross profits are measured principally by commissions.
An ACT to authorize the members of the State corporation commission of Virginia to grant certificates of convenience and necessity for and to regulate the operation of motor vehicles in interstate transportation of persons or property, or both, for compensation in accordance with the provisions of any statute enacted by the congress of the United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the title, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain “securities” herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Washington, in the county of Rappahannock, approved February 12, 1894, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 882 of the Code of Virginia as last amended by an act approved March 15, 1924.
An ACT to provide for the organization, maintenance and supervision of a fire, windstorm, lightning, tornado, hail, and automobile fire and theft insurance rate making bureau; to provide for the making and filing of such rates by the bureau, insurance companies and other insurers; whether stock, mutual, reciprocal or inter-insurer; to generally regulate rate making agreements; to prohibit discrimination; and to empower the State corporation commission to fix, approve, alter or reduce such rates; providing penalties for violations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT for relief of J. T. Leftwich.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 29 of chapter 149 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to prohibit the display upon any motor vehicle, the insignia or emblem of any motor vehicle club or organization—penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act requiring permits to be obtained for the construction, repair or improvement of buildings or structures in counties having a density of population ef more than 300 per square mile, according to the United States census, approved February 26, 1926.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 24, 1924, which appears as chapter 477 on page 761 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, relating to the inspection of gasoline.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6016 of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedure when plaintiff swears to his claim.
An ACT to authorize the governing boards of the University of Virginia, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and the State teachers colleges at Farmville and Harrisonburg to issue and sell, through the commissioners of the sinking fund, certificates of indebtedness in the name and on behalf of their institutions, respectively, to raise funds for dormitory construction purposes and for the construction of a power and heating plant at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this act; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
An ACT to create an advisory and research commission to investigate and report upon the question of freight rates, freight rate discriminations, and the development of water-ways; to prescribe its powers and duties, and to make an appropriation to pay the expenses of the said commission.
An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Bluefield, in the county of Tazewell, to borrow money and issue notes or other certificates of indebtedness for the purpose of paying off and discharging an indebtedness against the municipal building owned by the said town of Bluefield.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4685 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to operation of slot machines, punch boards or similar devices.
An ACT to require purely mutual building and loan associations to create and maintain a reserve fund for protection against losses and providing a maximum and minimum amount of said reserve fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4366 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, in relation to the exercise of the power of eminent domain and concerning the pay of commissioners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 188a, in relation to merchants’ licenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3225 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to oyster grounds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenues raised by the same and to prescribe penalties, approved March 26, 1923, as heretofore amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1926, and to enlarge the same so as to require manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers, and other persons, firms and corporations selling motor vehicle fuels for distribution to, and use by the public generally in Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 233 of the Acts of 1901, entitled, 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 amend and re-enact section 4131 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3796 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conduct of meetings of corporations, ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 31 of the acts of the general
An ACT defining and regulating co-operative non-profit life benefit corporations with representative form of government, providing the term:
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 387 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, of 1926, entitled “an act requiring all oysters from the public rocks of the Commonwealth to be inspected when loading on vessels ; measurements; tax; penalties,” approved March 24, 1926, as amended, so as to include all oysters, taken from such public rocks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5582 of the Code of Virginia, relating to negotiable instruments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 181 and 186 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to hotels and lodging houses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (c) of section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia and to add a new subsection to the said section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia to be designated (m), the said subsections being in relation to deductions allowed under the income tax law; also to amend and re-enact sections 71, 72, 73, 77, and 91 of the Tax Code of Virginia which sections are in chapter 7 and 8 of the Tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of intangible personal property and banks, banking associations and trust companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 and section 47 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 or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke, approved March 22, 1924, subsection 10 of section two of which as amended, and subsection 11 of section two of which, as amended.
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.
An ACT to provide for the inspection, and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, lubricating oil, and other liquids or fluids used or intended to be used for power purposes; to provide for an appropriation therefor and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal chapter 477, of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for the inspection and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, and other liquids and fluids used, or intended to be used, for power purposes; and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2158 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State depositories.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6046 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 439 of the acts of the general assembly of 1922, page 763, relating to notice and motion for judgment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (i) of section 6, and section 7, 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 19c, 19e, 62, 64, 65 and 78 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Rich-
An ACT to provide for transferring to the State corporation commission, the powers and duties now conferred and imposed by law upon the commissioner of insurance, concerning guaranty, indemnity, fidelity and security companies; for issuing permits to such companies to do business in Virginia; for establishing and regulating rates to be charged by such companies on the various classes and kinds of bonds, obligations and undertakings to be given or guaranteed by them; for the revocation of permits; and for penalties to be imposed for violations of any of such provisions.
An ACT to prevent fraud and misrepresentation in the sale of liquid fuels, lubricating oils and similar products, and to prevent adulteration of any such product.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, entitled an act to prevent and punish fraud in the procurement of a certificate, license, or permit, from a State board, or other body, charged with the duty of examining persons desiring to engage in or practice certain businesses or professions
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 sections 3613, 3615, 3625 and 3638 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section 18514, relating to license tax on dealers in carload lots of horses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5540 of the Code of Virginia, relating to emblements.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3879 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924, which section is in chapter 151 of the said Code on the subject of the creation of non-stock corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 392 of the acts of assembly of 1924, known as the centralized purchasing law, as amended.
An ACT for the relief of John L. Yates
An ACT to authorize the clerk of the State corporation commission to collect, receive and receipt for all charter fees required of domestic corporations and all entrance fees required of foreign corporations, and to make and file a duplicate copy of such receipt in lieu of any certificate now required to be made as to such payments.
An ACT to declare certain specified grounds in Mobjack bay in Gloucester county a part of the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals, subject to any existing rights of any lessees of said ground.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 53 and 58 of the Virginia banking act.
An ACT to confer upon the State corporation commission all powers and require the performance by it of all duties now conferred, or imposed, by law upon the commissioner of insurance, the banking division of the State corporation commission, the chief examiner of banks, the bureau of insurance and banking, and the commissioner of insurance and banking.
An ACT for the relief of Hermitage Park Corporation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to validate certain certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia taken by commissioners of deeds appointed by governors of States other than the governor of Virginia, approved February 26, 1924, so as to include notaries public appointed by the governor of Virginia, approved March 6, 1926, so as to include notaries public of States other than Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, and 572 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the State board of accountancy, and to add a new section relating thereto, designated as section 572a.
An ACT to provide for appeals from the action of the commission of fisheries in leasing or refusing to lease oyster planting grounds in the Chesapeake bay.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 14 of chapter 300 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 20, 1922, relating to the business of making small loans.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6439 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the perfection and enforcement of mechanics’ and supply liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (e) of section 29 of chapter 149 of the Acts of 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780, as heretofore amended, section 3792, as heretofore amended, section 3793, section 3797 and section 3850, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia in relation to corpora- tions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6063 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to how process served on domestic corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5649 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the effect of a negotiable instrument payable at a bank.
An ACT to prescribe the form and require the use of a standard fire insurance policy in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of corporations, as amended by an act, approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to reimburse John FE. Ross for a certain sum improperly paid into the treasury of the State of Virginia.
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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4155 of the Code of Virginia, relating to building and loan associations, initiation or membership fees.
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 18l-a, so as to impose a license tax upon instalment paper handlers or dealers.
An ACT declaring it larceny for any maker or drawer, with intent to defraud, to make or draw or utter or deliver any check, draft, or order, when such person has not sufficient funds in, or credit with the depository upon which the same is drawn; prescribing penalties for the violation thereof; and making certain provisions in relation to the admissibility of evidence in civil cases respecting collateral agreements, statements or representations as to said draft, check or order, growing out of arrest under this act, to repeal an act entitled an act to make it larceny to obtain, with fraudulent intent money or other property or credit by means of a check, draft or order, and to make a failure to have on deposit, or to the credit of the maker or drawer thereof with the bank, person, firm or corporation on which such check, draft or order is drawn, sufficient funds to pay the same in full when presented prima facie evidence of fraudulent intent, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and an act entitled an act declaring it a misdemeanor for any maker or drawer, with intent to defraud, to make or draw or utter or deliver any check, draft, or order, when such person has not sufficient funds in, or credit with the depository upon which the same is drawn, and making certain provisions in relation to the admissibility of evidence in civil cases respecting collateral agreements, statements, or representations as to draft, check or order, growing out of arrest under this act, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.
An ACT to give the consent of the State of Virginia and to authorize and permit any legally constituted bridge corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across New river, the acquisition of same by the State highway commission, and the control and regulation by the State corporation commission
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 168 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to insurance brokers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3855 of the Code of Virginia, relating to co-operative associations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3228 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to subrenting or assignment of oyster planting grounds.
An ACT to amend sections 1257, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1264 and 1265, relating to licensing, bonding, and regulating commission merchants, and punishment for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3876 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the assessment and taxation of stocks and bonds and other evidences of debt in anywise held or owned by railway and canal companies chartered under the laws of Virginia for 1928 and succeeding years; and to provide when such companies shall not be assessed with stocks, bonds and other evidences of debt omitted from assessment for the year 1927 and preceding years.
1930
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto ten new sections, numbered 1154-a, 1154-b, 1154-c, 1154-d, 1154-e, 1154-f, 1154-g, 1154-h, 1154-i, 1154-j, both inclusive, relating to the sale of vegetable seeds, providing definitions, label requirements, exemptions; prescribing the powers and duties of the commissioner of agriculture and immigration and his employees; prohibiting false marks; making violations of this act a misdemeanor and providing for prosecutions thereof; providing trial grounds; making provisions for free tests and authorizing the commissioner of agriculture and immigration to prescribe rules and regulations and to repeal chapter 379 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act to prevent the sale of inferior and worthless vegetable seed in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4449a of the Code of Virginia, of 1919, relating to the sale and purchase of second-hand metals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the charter of the city of Hampton
An ACT for the relief of Pennington Gap Bank, Incorporated
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 section 4464 of the Code of Virginia relating to punishment for obtaining food, entertainment, or accommodation at a hotel, boarding house, restaurant or other eating house.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4450 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, relating to the sale and purchase of second-hand metals.
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 192-a, in relation to the license tax on persons, firms and corporations selling and delivering at the same time, goods, wares or merchandise to licensed dealers or retailers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6454 of the Code of Virginia, relating to liens of landlords and farmers for advances to tenants and laborers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3146 of the Code of Virginia relating to the commissioner and commission of fisheries.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 294 of the acts of assembly of 1849, entitled “An act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers.”
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 53 of the Virginia banking act as amended and re-enacted by chapter 503 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia for the year 1928 by conferring certain powers upon receivers for trust companies and banks authorized to do a trust business.
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 authorize counties containing a city of the second class, which constitutes a magisterial district thereof, to exempt property of manufacturing establishments and works of internal improvement located on government property, situated in the State of Virginia, from local taxation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to create the city of Hopewell, in the county of Prince George; to provide temporary and permanent officers for its organization and management and to authorize the assessment and collection of revenue necessary for the permanent improvement and government of said city
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of chapter 507 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of 1928, approved March 27, 1928, and designated as the Virginia banking act; said section 31 relating to the amount which may be invested in a bank building.
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.