Business

1944
An ACT requiring certain corporations and companies of other states to appoint the Secretary of the Commonwealth its attorney for certain purposes, to provide that transacting certain business or soliciting, making or delivering certain contracts in Virginia shall be deemed to be an appointment oi the Secretary of the Commonwealth as attorney for certain purposes, and to prescribe the duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth when notice or process is served upon him in such cases and the effect of such service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 566 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the composition and appointment of the State Board of Accountancy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 182-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of dealers in second-hand paper.
An ACT to authorize the Medical College of Virginia to issue and sell certificates of indebtedness to meet certain existing indebtedness, to prescribe how such certificates shall be secured, issued, sold, or otherwise disposed of, and to provide a sinking fund to retire such certificates at maturity,
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4222 of the Code of Wrenn: as amended, relating to certain insurance companies doing business in this oe
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1625 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia State Board of Examiners in Optometry.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered fifty-two hundred and twenty-four-a, defining the terms “factoring”, “factor” and “factors” and relating to the creation of liens upon goods or merchandise to provide for the recording of notice of such liens, their application, enforcement and discharge.
To authorize the sale, lease or rental of the timber or mineral rights of certain property owned by the State Teachers College at Radford.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to slot machines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3694 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the election, appointment and terms of office of members of the Corporation Commission.
An ACT to define air carriers and air transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation, supervision, and control of persons, firms, corporations, and associations, owning, controlling, operating, or managing aircraft used for intrastate air transportation of persons or property for compensation or hire or the carriage of mail by aircraft in the air space of this State, and of air transportation brokers, whether such commerce moves wholly by aircraft or partly by aircraft and partly by other forms of transportation; to provide for the regulation of the rates thereof; to provide for and/or regulate and/or control the operation of, and the charges, rates, or services imposed by any person, firm, or corporation operating aircraft for compensation in the air space of this State; to provide for the enforcement of this act, and for the punishment of violations thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5, as amended, of Chap 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, and designated as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act, relating to persons to whom a license shall not be issued.
An ACT to authorize public and private corporations of and in the State of Virginia to make applications for the right to establish, operate and maintain, foreign-trade zones in or adjacent to ports otf entry in this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 328 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 19, 1920, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board for the Examination and Certification of Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4235-d of the Code of Virginia relating to domestic insurance companies of this State insuring the lives and persons of residents of certain other States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to different rates of levy on certain kinds of property, so as to authorize the governing bodies of counties to make certain other classification of certain kinds of property and to impose different rates of levy thereon.
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 73-c, in relation to the taxation of suppliers of pulpwood, veneer logs, mine props and railroad cross-ties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board of Photographic Examiners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 3, as amended, of an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Medical College of Virginia.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 as amended, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15-a as amended, of Chapter 431, Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, relating to the establishment of a State Registration Board for Contractors, defining its powers and duties, providing for certificates of registration, fees, distribution of moneys, suspension and cancellation of certificates, prescribing punishment for violations, all as to the conduct of the business of contracting, in order to make certain changes in the scope and applicability of certain provisions of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled "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 2 of Chapter 431 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, relating to composition and appointment of the State Registration Board of Contractors.
An ACT to repeal Sections 3616, 3617, 3628, 3629, 3632 and 3641 of the Code of Virginia, relating to pilots and piloting; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 142, two new sections numbered 3616 and 3617, relating to pilots and piloting; and to amend and re-enact Sections 3631 and 3645 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject.
An ACT to provide for the regulation of the business of distributing and selling motor vehicles; defining, regulating and providing for the licensing of motor vehicle dealers, motor vehicle salesmen, motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, factory branches, distributor branches, factory representatives, and distributor representatives; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and his agents, other officers of the State Government, and on courts; prescribing fees and appropriating the same for the administration of this Act; prohibiting certain practices, and prescribing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5 and 9, as amended, of Chapter 212 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 23, 1932, relating to taxes on motor fuel, and penalty for failure to make certain reports.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 28 of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor."
An ACT to provide that in counties having a certain density of population, persons engaged in the business of selling pistols or revolvers at retail shall register with and obtain certain permits from the chief of police; to require any person desiring to purchase any such weapon to obtain a permit so to do; and to provide that no person obtaining a permit to sell shall sell, give or furnish any such weapon to any person unless he delivers to the dealer a permit. obtained under the provisions of this act; and to prescribe penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4222 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to insurance companies, resident agents, countersignature of insurance contracts, and discriminations by insurance companies and agents, so as to prescribe how contracts issued by mutual companies may be countersigned, and to delete from the section certain language authorizing the Corporation Commission to issue refraining orders.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 44, 82, and 286 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the time for filing tax returns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3800 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to deeds of trust.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 472 of the Acts of Assembly
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 309-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, requiring operators of certain apartment houses annually to file lists of tenants with commissioner of the revenue.
An ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Supervisors of any county which adjoins a county having a population of 1,000 per square mile, or more, as shown by the last preceding United States Census, to appoint an executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of such executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of the board of supervisors and certain other county officers in relation thereto; to prohibit certain county officers, employees and other persons from being interested in transactions in which the county is interested, and making such transactions void; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3809; 3810 as amended (as Section 3810 and two new sections numbered 3810-a and 3810-b); 3811 as amended; 3822 as amended (as Section 3822 and a new section numbered 3822-a); 3830; 3836; 3851 as amended; 3857 as amended; 3857-a (by transposing part of Section 3857 as being amended into Section 3857-a); 3859; 3866 (as Section 3866 and a new section numbered 3866-a); and 3868, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain kinds of domestic corporations, so as to make explicit therein, in order to avoid confusion, certain amendments indirectly effected by Section 3 (c) of Chapter 33, Acts 1927, approved April 18, 1927, commonly known as the Reorganization of Government Act, as it was amended by Chapter 71, Acts 1930, approved February 27, 1930, which acts transferred certain duties and functions theretofore imposed upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the State Corporation Commission: so as, for future convenience, to subdivide Section 3810 into three sections (the two additional being numbered 3810-a and 3810-b); Section 3822 into two sections (the additional section being numbered 3822-a); Section 3866 into two sections (the additional section being numbered 3866-a): so as to transpose a portion of Section 3857 as being amended to Section 3857-a: and so as to make other purely verbal, formal, and conforming changes for purposes of clarification, brevity, or convenience.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3783 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the creation and increase by corporations of bonded indebtedness to be secured by lien on their property or franchises.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6456 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to satisfaction of certain liens by marginal notations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 16 of an act entitled “An Act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said town.”
An ACT to authorize and regulate the use of trust receipts and pledges of personal property unaccompanied by possession in the pledgee, and to enact a law with respect thereto which shall be uniform with those of other States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4340 of the Code of Virginia, relating to limitation of assumption of risks by certain kinds of fire, lightning, and storms insurance companies, etc., to exempt certain kind or kinds of fire insurance companies from certain provisions of Section 4336 of the Code.
An ACT to provide for the regulation of certain administrative agencies
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 20, 25, 37, 40, 47 and 49 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, which provided a new charter for the City of Clifton Forge, relating to powers of council, taxation, issuance of bonds, disbursements, licenses and Commonwealth's Attorney.
An ACT to authorize the establishment and maintenance by banks of separate trust funds for the collective investment of funds held in a fiduciary capacity; to be known as “Common Trust Funds’, and to provide how such funds shall be established and administered.
An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to require licenses and impose and collect license taxes on certain motor vehicles used as taxicabs or for the transportation of passengers for a consideration.

1945es
An ACT to authorize and empower domestic insurance companies to comply with the statutes, ordinances and other laws of States (including the District of Columbia), territories, and political subdivisions thereof imposing any license, excise, privilege, premium, occupation or other fees or taxes, and to pay such fees and taxes, and to relieve the directors, trustees, officers, agents and employees of such domestic insurance companies of personal liability by reason of any such payment or determination not to contest any such payment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled 'An act to regulate investments of domestic life insurance companies.'

1946
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 of Chapter 3 of the Acts of Assembly, Extra Session 1933, known as the 3.2 Beverage Act, approved August 29, 1933, so as to authorize cities and towns, in imposing local merchants’ and local restaurant license taxes, to include 3.2 beverages in the base for measuring such taxes.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 4460-a 1, prohibiting certain practices in the sale of merchandise and other property tending to mislead the public.
An ACT to regulate the labeling, sale, and offering for sale of agricultural and vegetable seed; to impose penalties for violations; and to repeal certain statutes relating to the same subject.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to powers of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1110, 1111, 1112, as amended, 115, 1120, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the registration, branding, analysis and sale of fertilizers and plant foods and penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3985 of the Code of Virginia and Section 84 of the Motor Vehicle Code both relating to railroad crossing boards and signs.
An ACT for the relief of Callaham Grocery and Produce Company, Incorporated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 15 of Chapter 216 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 14, 1924, relating to weights and measures, the section prescribing standard weights.
An ACT relating to apples; to create the Virginia State Apple Commission and to prescribe its powers and duties; to promote the sale and consumption of Virginia apples by providing for campaigns of education, advertising, publicity, sales promotion and research; to levy an excise tax on apples packed in closed packages, to provide for its collection, and to appropriate the revenue derived from it; and to provide penalties for violations on this on
An ACT to amend Chapter 101 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved February 25, 1922, which chapter provided a new charter for the town of Galax, by adding a new section numbered 67, relating to subdivisions within the town or within one mile thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 27 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, approved March 7, 1934, as heretofore amended, in relation to excise taxes.
An ACT to amend Chapter 34, Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, as amended, which provided a charter and special form of government for the City of Norfolk by adding a new section numbered 2-a to empower the City of Norfolk to impose, levy and collect an admission tax on admissions to any public amusement, entertainment, performance, exhibition, sport or athletic event, and validating any such tax heretofore imposed, levied and collected by an ordinance which became effective on and after January 1, 1946.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1517 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the furnishing and use of towels in certain places.
An ACT to prohibit the using of certain kinds of materials in the making or remaking of mattresses and certain other articles of bedding; to prohibit the selling, leasing, et cetera, of such articles, which have not been sterilized and disinfected; to require every person engaged in sterilizing and disinfecting such articles to obtain a permit to do so; to provide for inspection of certain places; to require certain tags to be placed on certain articles of bedding and certain adhesive stamps to be placed on such tags; to provide for the sale of such stamps and how the proceeds thereof shall be disposed of; to charge the State Board of Health with the administration of this act; and to prescribe penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 8, 10 and 11 of Chapter 406 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, said chapter of said act being known, designated and cited as the “Virginia Motor Vehicle Dealer Licensing Act”, relating to license fees, use of unimproved lots and premises, grounds for denying, suspending or revoking licenses, and refusal of license; noties is hearing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 461 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 21, 1924, which provided for the licensing and regulation of real estate brokers and salesmen, the section relating to causes for suspension or revocation of license.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5760-a relating to certain written instruments executed to obtain benefits under federal legislation.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new chapter numbered 211-A and nine new sections numbered from 5222-a to 5222-i, both inclusive, all of which sections are embraced in such new chapter, the object of which is to provide for the regulating by the governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns, of the subdivision of lands within their territorial limits or adjacent thereto, into lots, streets and alleys and other public areas; to provide for the making and recording of plats of such subdivisions, and certain certificates with respect thereto; to provide how such regulations and plats shall be approved, and how such plats may be vacated; and to repeal sections 5217, 5218, 5219, 5220, 5221 and 5222 of the Code of Virginia, and Chapter 150 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved March 10, 1922, and Chapter 468 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 21, 1924, relating to the same matters, and all acts amendatory thereof, or of any part or parts thereof.
An ACT to provide for the regulation of the operation of refrigerated locker plants and the dealing in, handling and processing of food for human consumption in connection therewith; to provide standards of sanitation and quality; to provide a system of licenses; defining certain offenses and providing penalties therefor; and providing for lien and foreclosure.
An ACT for the relief of the American National Bank and Trust Company of Danville.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Falls Church, in the County of Fairfax, and to repeal the existing charter of said town and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 6016 as amended, and 6133 of the Code of Virginia, relating to affidavits and accounts in warrants and in actions of assumpsit.
An ACT to authorize the governing body of any county or city to require a bond of certain persons; to provide where such bonds shall be filed; to provide penalties; and to provide how such bonds may be proceeded upon.
An ACT to impose a road tax on certain motor carriers operating over the highways of this State; to provide for credits on such tax; to require reports to be made by such carriers; to provide for the administration of this act by the State Corporation Commission; to prescribe remedies for the enforcement of this act and penalties for violations thereof; and to repeal Chapter 108 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1942, approved March 6, 1942.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5562, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to seals and scrolls and when not required.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, known as the “Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act’, prescribing who shall be exempt from the provisions of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1204 of the Code of Virginia relating to sterilization of certain containers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3163, 3193, and 3265, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding three new sections numbered 3146-b, 3200-a, and 3200-b, the amended and new sections relating to the oyster and shellfish industry, revocation of licenses, authorizing the establishment of seed areas and the planting of oyster shells by the Commission of Fisheries, regulating the size and weights of certain fish that may be legally taken. authorizing and prescribing the rates of charge for the taking of certain shellfish and extending application for oyster ground.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 39, 59, 60, 62, and 64 of an act entitled "An act to provide a new charter for the City of Lynchburg, Virginia."
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 82 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 8, 1938, relating to the composition of the Virginia State Planning Board.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 6454-a, providing for the execution, filing and indexing of chattel deeds of trust on livestock, poultry, farm machinery, and crops; prescribing the kinds of indebtedness that may be secured by such deeds of trust and the character of the liens created thereby; providing how such deeds of trust may be assigned, how foreclosed, and how released; prescribing the fees to be paid clerks of courts for certain services in connection with such deeds of trust; and to repeal Chapter 336 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 27, 1936, relating to borrowing money from production credit associations, and Section 5202-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to chattel mortgages on livestock or poultry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 35-a of Chapter 342, Acts of Assembly of 1932, as amended, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the “Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia’, relating to the registration of property carrying motor vehicles, and by adding thereto a new subsection (i) relating to the licensing of certain persons engaged in the business of delivering unladen motor vehicles from points of assembly and/or OAT aot
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 37A entitled "Loan and Financing Organizations" (added to the Code by Chapter 370, Acts 1944), a new chapter numbered 166A 2 entitled "Virginia Building and Loan Law" consisting of 62 new sections numbered 4168-b 1 through 4168-b 61, to provide generally for the conduct of what is commonly known as building and loan business and for the authorization, regulation and supervision of everyone proposing to engage or engaging in such business; and to such end, to recodify the laws governing what are commonly known as building and loan associations; to provide for the administration of the laws governing the conduct of the business; to provide for punishment of, or penalties upon any person conducting such business without warrant of law, and also of or upon anyone for violations of certain provisions thereof or of lawful rules issued, orders entered or actions taken in the administration thereof; to provide for consolidation or merger of two or more such associations, for conversion from a State to a Federal association and vice versa, and for the respective rights, obligations and other consequences arising thereupon; to repeal certain specific designated act or acts relating to the same subject matter; and to repeal all other pertinent acts or parts of acts insofar as irreconcilably inconsistent.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 427 of the Acts of Assembly ot 1936, approved March 30, 1936, relating to the creation of county planning commissions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 673 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to loans contracted by school boards of counties for certain school purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 256 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 18, 1942, the section and chapter authorizing the governing bodies of counties to regulate trailer camps and provide penalties for violations.
An ACT to provide for the creation of an Advisory Committee on Aviation in the Department of Corporations, State ‘Corporation Commission; to prescribe the number and terms of the members, the duties of the Committee and other related matters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 91 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to the taxation of bank and trust company stock; and to amend: Section 97-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to branch banks in towns so as to include within its provisions branch banks in cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9, and Section 10 as amended, of Chapter 431 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, relating to the registration of general contractors and subcontractors, and the revocation and reissuance of certificates to such contractors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 268 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 25, 1936, as amended, relating to proof of claims by certain creditors of insolvent banks or trust companies, so as to prescribe under what conditions the publication of a list of creditors and the amounts due them is unnecessary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 3, 4, 6 and 10 of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, relating to the State Board of Photographic Examiners, its powers, duties and functions, and the regulation and control of the practice of photography in Virginia.
An ACT to amend Chapter 507 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 27, 1928, and known as the Virginia Banking Act, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered Section 44-a relating to the liability of banks and trust companies for payment of checks, notes and acceptances, bearing forged or unauthorized endorsements.
An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto nine new sections, to be numbered 310-a, 310-b, 310-c, 310-d, 310-e, 310-f, 310-g, 310-h and 310-i, and to repeal Sections 311, 312, 313 and 314 of the Tax Code of Virginia, and to repeal Sections 330 to 343, both inclusive, of the Tax Code of Virginia, so as to abolish the office of examiner of records and to vest certain of the powers of such officer in, and to impose certain of the duties of such officer upon, commissioners of the revenue; also in relation to the collection of taxes and levies on property under control of fiduciaries and courts and taxes owing by decedents’ estates.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled “An Act to regulate investments of domestic life insurance companies”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 17-a of Chapter 94 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, known as “The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act”, the section relating to tax on certain alcoholic beverages and distribution of revenue.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 12 of Chapter 507 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 27, 1928, and known as the Virginia Banking Act, as heretofore amended, relating to the kinds of business which banks may do, powers they may exercise, and limitations as to investments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 of Chapter 403 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1922, approved March 24, 1922, as amended, the chapter creating the State Highway Commission and relating to other matters, the section relating to contracts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 425l-c 2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to non-forfeiture benefits under life insurance poles:
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 403 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to additional remedies for the collection of taxes, State, county and municipal, and the payment of attorneys’ fees for services heretofore or hereafter rendered in the collection of certain taxes.
An ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the City of Portsmouth.”
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 3822-b so as to provide for service of notice of dissent from mergers or consolidations of corporations before presentation of the agreement to the State Corporation Commission in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4168-a 37 of Chapter 166 Al of the Code of Virginia entitled “Virginia Small Loan Law.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3847 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5, 8, 10, 23 and 24, as amended, of Chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, as amended, approved March 29, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the “Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act”, relating to what persons shall not be licensed; applications for operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses to drive motor vehicles, expiration dates thereof; violation of license provisions and making false statements; punishment.