Business

1930
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto fourteen new sections numbered 3775-a to 3775-n, both inclusive, providing for the safety of aircraft passengers; for the licensing and inspection of aircraft and of aircraft pilots; authorizing the State corporation commission to promulgate rules and regulations governing the operation of aircrafts; providing for the issuance of permits for the establishment of air ports; providing for the supervision of said air ports; fixing penalties for violation of the sections embraced in this bill, and to repeal chapter 463 of the acts of 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 121 of the tax Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to recordation taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1257, 1260, 1261 and 1262 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to licensing and regulating commission merchants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3225 of the Code of Virginia as last amended by chapter 441 of the acts of assembly of 1928, in relatios to assigning oyster grounds.
An ACT to permit and authorize mutual building and loan associations to organize a jointly owned corporation for the purpose of promoting the welfare of said associations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3242 of the Code of Virginia, relating to license tax and fee on oyster tongs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4697 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the selling or giving away of toy firearms.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 21, 22, 24, 30 and 31 of chapter 48 of the acts of assembly of 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; to enlarge the same so as to include co-operative purchasing; and to add a new section thereto, to be designated as section 29-a, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, concerning the pay of supervisors.
An ACT to require the placing of labels showing date of shipment, quantity, and payment of tax on all containers in which scallops are shipped; to fix the price of such labels; to direct the application of the funds derived from sale of such labels; and prescribing penalties.
An ACT to authorize cities, towns and counties to exempt manufacturing establishments and works of internal improvements from local taxation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3170 of the Code of Virginia, relating to license for buying herring or packing fish roe.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act of the general assembly, approved March 17, 1926, and designated as chapter 149; to add a new section to be numbered 23-a.
An ACT to authorize the College of William and Mary in Virginia to sell or otherwise dispose of the property held by it known as the Paradise property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to deposit of bonds with the treasurer.
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 179-a, imposing a State license tax on fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, and practitioners of palmistry and phrenology.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579 and 580 of the Code, relating to the legislative drafting bureau, re-establishing the same, providing for a director, his duties, his assistants and clerks, and to repeal sub-section (b) of section 22 of chapter 33 of the acts of 1927, commonly known as “an act to re-organize the administration of the State government.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3810 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, in relation to dissolution of corporations.
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding a new sub-section to section 25 thereof, the said sub-section to be designated (n), and being in relation to deductions under the income tax law; also to amend and re-enact sections 39, 90, 107, 110, 120, 170, 198, 203, 267, 407, 410, and 415 of the tax Code of Virginia; which sections are in chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 18 and 26 of the tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of income, intangible personal property, banks, banking associations and trust companies, inheritance taxes, licenses, real estate assessments and erroneous assessments; and also to repeal section 169 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of ship brokers; section 179 of the tax: Code of Virginia, in relation to fish factories, and section 181-a of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of installment paper handlers or dealers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 31, 36, 36-a, 41 and 51 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to income taxes.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Bluefield, Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 91 and 93 of the tax Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty, entitled an act to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes, similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security and at a low rate of interest, approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.
An ACT to refund money unlawfully collected as State income tax from Williams and McKeithan Lumber Company of Virginia, Incorporated, and put in the State treasury.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 197 and 199 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of restaurant keepers, and the license taxation of persons, firms and corporations selling soft drinks from fountains, and the license taxation of manufacturers of bottled carbonated beverages.
An ACT to repeal section 102 of chapter 64, acts of 1895-96, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, relating to the disposition of money to the credit of the sinking fund; and to amend and re-enact section 91 of said act, relating to the election and duties of the constable; and to amend and re-enact section 103 of said act, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1920, relating to contracts for the erection and construction of public improvements.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to justices of the peace, as amended by chapter 515 of the acts of assembly of 1926.
An ACT to amend section 8 of chapter 256 of the acts of the general assembly of the session of 1928, approved March 19, 1928, entitled an act to prescribe the form and require the use of a standard fire insurance policy in the State of Virginia, so as to empower the State corporation commission to grant certain exemptions.
An ACT to provide for refunding to the Merchants and Farmers Bank, at Franklin, Virginia, for the benefit of certain stockholders thereof, the sum of $800.71 taxes improperly paid into the State treasury for the year 1927.
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 176-c, in relation to cotton and peanut dealers.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the incorporation, establishment and operation of loan and savings institutions known as “credit unions,” by adding thereto two new sections numbered 26 and 27, which new sections relate to the taxation of such credit unions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5187 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the sale of merchandise in bulk, as amended by chapter 332 of the acts of assembly of 1926.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3282 and 3287 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to oysters and clams, so as to include crab-meat and scallops within the provisions of said sections.
An ACT for the relief of the Planters Nut & Chocolate Company
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1638 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 5 of chapter 321 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to provide for a special police force for the county of Fairfax, appointment and compensation,
An ACT to provide for the recordation of plats of subdivision of land located in or within not more than two miles of any incorporated town, for the vacation thereof, for the construction of public improvements therein and for the rights of such incorporated towns in connection therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 5553 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 20, 1924. [H B 174]
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 74 of the tax Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend chapter 24 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto ten new sections, numbered 374-a and 378-a, 378-b, 378-c, 378-d, 378-e, 378-f, 378-g, 378-h, and 378-i, relating to the attorney general and the Division of Motion Picture Censorship; providing for the regulation of motion and sound films, reels or records used in connection with any motion picture; providing a system of examination, approval and regulation thereof, and of all matters connected therewith; providing for censors, their powers and duties; providing penalties for the violation of the sections embraced in this act; and to revise and codify the laws of this State relating to the censorship of motion and/or sound picture film, reel or record used in connection with any motion picture; and to repeal chapter 257 of the acts of 1922, as heretofore amended; to repeal sections 22-a and 22-c of chapter 33 of the acts of 1927, being an act to reorganize the State government.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 362 of the acts of assembly of 1916, approved March 20, 1916, which was an act to provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, as amended by an act approved February 18, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4730 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public roads, so as to prohibit the erection or maintenance of any structure that would obstruct the view at road and railway crossings, and to prescribe penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 409 of the acts of assembly of 1924, entitled an act to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising, and making such advertising a misdemeanor, and providing penal-<br />ties
An ACT to provide 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 and/or between any incorporated communities 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 and imposing certain taxes and license fees and providing for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
An ACT to amend section 196 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the annual State license tax on real estate agents.
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 176-b, in relation to cotton buyers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9-a of an act known as the Virginia banking act, being chapter 507 of the acts of 1928, approved March 27, 1928, so as to provide how State banks may be merged or consolidated with other State banks or national banks; by what laws such mergers and consolidations are governed and vote required; the effect upon fiduciary offices; the effect of such consolidations with national banks; the extent to which the property rights and benefits of such State banks, when so consolidated or merged into a national bank, or of a State bank converted into a national bank, may be transferred; to provide that, in case said State bank be acting as administrator, co-administrator, executor, co-executor, trustee or co-trustee of or in respect to any estate or trust administered under the laws of this State, such relation, as well as any other or similar fiduciary relations, and all rights, privileges, duties and obligations connected therewith shall remain unimpaired and shall continue into said national bank.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia of 1919, by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered thirty-eight hundred and twenty-a, which new section relates 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 408 of chapter 45 of the acts of 1928 entitled 'An act to revise, simplify, arrange and consolidate into one act the general tax and revenue statutes of the Commonwealth, which act shall constitute, and be designated and cited as ‘the tax Code of Virginia,’ approved February 21, 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act, approved February 28, 1924, entitled 'An act to confer upon the State corporation commission jurisdiction and to impose upon it the duty to prescribe and enforce rates of pilotage and other charges to be observed in the business of pilotage and to prescribe the procedure.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact 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 1 and 2 of an act entitled “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 agree- ments; to prohibit discrimination; and to empower the State corporation com- mission to fix, approve, alter or reduce such rates; providing penalties for violations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 26, 1928. [S B 238]
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section, numbered section 97-a, in relation to the town taxation of bank and trust company stock.
An ACT to authorize the granting by the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia of certain lands and certain easements and rights over certain lands of said university.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 60 and 61 of chapter 474 of the acts of 1926, entitled “An act to regulate the operation of vehicles on public highways to govern and protect pedestrians while using such high-ways; to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act,’ as amended by acts of 1928, page 1020.
An ACT to authorize and empower corporations to grant pensions to their former officers and employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of the act entitled 'An act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the ‘Virginia banking act,’ and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof,' and to repeal so much of chapter 285 of the acts of 1924, as may be in conflict with the provisions hereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 75 of an act of the general assembly of 1928, approved March 27, 1928, and entitled an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6384, 6385 and 6394 of the Code of Virginia, relating to attachments.
An ACT to provide for the release of liens and encumbrances upon motor vehicles, and to prescribe penalties for failing to make such release.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4033 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to express companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3781, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 182 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to junk dealers, and to add a new section to said tax Code, to be designated as section 182-a, in relation to dealers in second hand paper.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to corporations.

1932
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6426 of the Code of Virginia, relating to mechanic’s liens, as last amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, [H B 194]
An ACT to amend section 194 of the Tax Code of Virginia with reference to pistol dealers, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, with the consent of the governor, to lease under certain conditions not to exceed two acres of real estate belonging to the said institution.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto four new sections, numbered 2725-c, 2725-d, 2725-e and 2725-f, in relation to permitting counties to employ or designate and compensate county purchasing agents, and prescribing powers and duties of such agents when so employed or designated, and how in such cases purchases for the county and its officers shall be made.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3393 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 53 of an act entitled an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth, relating to banks and banking, known as the Virginia banking act, which was amended by an act approved March 24, 1930.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act concerning trustees, their qualification, sales made by trustees under order or decree of court, their compensation in such cases,” approved March 19, 1920, and to enlarge said act so as to validate sales, and deeds made in pursuance thereof, by trustees who were stockholders, officers or directors of corporations, under deeds of trust given to secure debts due to such corporations.
An ACT to define motor vehicle carriers, to provide for the regulation, supervision and control of persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used as common carriers for the transportation of persons or property for compensation on the public highways of this State; to provide for the regulation of the rates thereof; and to provide for the enforcement of this act and for punishment of violations thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 and 9 of an act entitled an act to regulate the business of itinerant venders and itinerant auctioneers, prescribing a specific license therefor and providing penalties for a violation thereof
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 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 for the relief of the Seaboard Citizens National Company, Incorporated.
An ACT requiring persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used as common carriers for the transportation of persons and/or property for compensation on the public highways of this State to obtain registration plates or markers, and prescribing and imposing certain taxes and/or license fees and/or charges and providing for the collection, payment and disposition of the same, and providing for the enforcement of this act and for punishment of violations thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 192 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license tax of peddlers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled "an act to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security and at a low rate of interest," approved February 21, 1920, as heretofore amended, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto four new sections, numbered 13, 14, 15 and 16, respectively.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875, as heretofore amended, said section being in relation to the town council.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto six new sections, numbered 2702-a to 2702-f, both inclusive, in relation to giving two or more counties the right to employ, appoint, or elect conjointly ministerial and executive officers, after the conjoint employment, appointment, or election of such officers has been adopted, in accordance with section 110 of the Constitution of Virginia, by a majority of the qualified voters of each such counties voting in an election held for that purpose, and prescribing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 176 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of contractors, plumbers and steam fitters.
An ACT to provide for the letting of certain contracts to which the State of Virginia, or any department, institution or agency thereof is a party, upon the basis of competitive bids.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 20 and 31 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Bluefield, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109-a thereof fifty-six new sections numbered 2773-n 1 to 2773-n 56, both inclusive, relating to the organization and government of counties, and providing for complete forms of county organization and government different from that provided for in article VII of the Constitution of Virginia, sections 110 to 115, both inclusive thereof, to become effective in any county in Virginia when submitted to the qualified voters thereof in an election held for such purpose and approved by a majority of those voting thereon, as is authorized by section 110 of the Constitution.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 121 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to recordation taxes on deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, leases, contracts and agreements.
An ACT for the relief of Henrico Lumber Company, Incorporated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3168 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to license to catch fish.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1215 and 1216 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to ice cream, condensed milk and other frozen products.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of counties having a density of population of more than five hundred per square mile according to the last United States census, to divide the area of said counties into one or more districts and in such districts to regulate the use of land and of buildings or other structures, and the height thereof, and also to establish building lines and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of buildings and other structures in said counties; to authorize such boards of supervisors to adopt all necessary regulations for carrying into effect the purposes of this act; to provide for zoning commissioners and boards of zoning appeals in such counties, their powers and duties; to provide for appeals from such zoning commissioners and boards of appeal and the effect thereof; to authorize such boards of supervisors to appoint administrative officers; to prescribe the powers and duties of such administrative officers; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof, approved April 11, 1927, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1930, extending said act to cover every county of the Commonwealth adjoining a city having a population of 170,000 or more, as shown by the last United States census, so as to further extend said act to include every county having a population of over 25,000 inhabitants and which adjoins two cities, both of which are located in this State and have an aggregate population of not less than 165,000 nor more than 185,000 inhabitants.
An ACT requiring nonresident persons, associations, partnerships and corporations establishing and/or maintaining a place of business in this State for the advertising, offering and/or sale of securities to appoint, by written power of attorney, the secretary of the Commonwealth and his successors in office, as the agents of such nonresidents, upon whom may be served an process against, or notice to such nonresident; to provide for the admissibility in evidence of certified copies of the power of attorney provided for; to empower the State corporation commission to enjoin or restrain the advertising, offering and/or sale of securities by such nonresidents, and their agents and employees and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5429 of the Code of Virginia, relating to confirmation of reports of fiduciaries.
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 the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 192-b, imposing a State license tax on peddlers of goods, wares or merchandise who sell to licensed dealers or retailers.
An ACT for the relief of Raymond C. Almond and Company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3249 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended relating to transportation of oysters out of Virginia, imposing bushel tax on oysters to be taken out of the State, and providing penalties for failure to pay tax.
An ACT to create a fund for the relief of injured and disabled firemen; for the relief of the dependents of deceased firemen; to provide for the appointment of trustees to administer said fund; to levy a tax upon the premiums collected by all fire and lightning insurance companies doing business in this State, for the purposes aforesaid; to provide for reports of such business; to fix penalties for the violation of the requirements imposed upon the said business; and for other purposes in connection therewith.
An ACT for the relief of Emporia Furniture Company, Incorporated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 188 of the Tax Code of Virginia relating to licenses of merchants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3244 of the Code of Virginia,