Business

1956
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 10-127 of the Code of Virginia, relating to composition of the Advisory Council on the Virginia Economy.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4-81, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the granting of and refusal to grant licenses by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, so as to provide certain standards or grounds upon which the Board may refuse to grant such licenses.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-546, 58-547, 58-548, 58-549, 58-550, 58-551, 58-552, 58-553, 58-554, and 58-555 of the Code of Virginia, relating to taxes on express companies.
An Act to amend and reenact § 56-888.2, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemptions from household goods carriers act.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered § 56-804.2:1 as to provide for the regulation and identification of certain leased motor vehicles.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 83-317.1, so as to have the provisions of § 88-817 of the Code, as amended by Chapter 588 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, approved April 6, 1954, take effect on July 1, 1956, as to advertisements and advertising structures thereafter first erected.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 55-88, 55-90 as amended, and 55-92 of the Code of Virginia, relating respectively, to the reservation of title or lien upon agreements for conditional sales, the recordation of such agreements, and the satisfaction and release of such 10 eel
An Act to amend Chapter 84 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, as amended, which chapter provided a new charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk, by adding thereto a section numbered 2(d) relating to the establishment of a public wholesale market.
An Act to amend and reenact § 2-20.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, which permits certain banks to close on Saturday under certain circumstances.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 38.1-64, 38.1-65, 38.1-71, 38.1-74, 38.1-75, 38.1-80, 38.1-81, 38.1-88, 38.1-495.5, 38.1-551, 38.1-579, 38.1-589, 38.1-666 and 38.1-667 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal § 38.1-82 of the Code of Virginia, all relating to insurance, in order to conform such sections to the proposed revision of the General Corporation Law of Virginia.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by inserting in Title 56 a Chapter numbered 12.8 containing sections numbered 56-338.40 through 56-338.48, so as to provide for the regulation by the State Corporation Commission of sightseeing carriers as a class of restricted common carriers of passengers.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-862 of the Code of Virginia, relating to merchants placing vending machines.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-82, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to limitations on income tax deductions of non-residents.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46-842, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to weighing vehicles suspected of being one en
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-800 of the Code of Virginia, relating to bonds or insurance to be kept in force by motor carriers; amounts.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 88-228, as amended, and 88-245 and 88-252, of the Code of Virginia, relating to definition of terms under State Revenue Bond Act, tolls, and incidental powers of the State Highway Commission.
An Act to amend and reenact § 88.1-108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to deposits required of insurance companies.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 59-114.4, so as to provide that violation of any provision of Article 6 of Chapter 6 of Title 59 of the Code of Virginia shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and to provide a penalty for persons convicted of such violations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4-109 of the Code of Virginia, relating to stamps, crowns, and lids evidencing payment of excise taxes upon beverages of not more than three and two-tenths per centum alcohol.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-38 and 8-59 of the Code of Virginia, relating to venue, and the service of process on domestic corporations; to amend and reenact effective July 1, 1958, §§ 8-60 and 8-65 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the service of process on a foreign corporation; and to repeal effective July 1, 1958, §§ 8-61 and 8-62 relating to the service of process on cooperative non-profit life benefit corporations.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-916 of the Code of Virginia, relating to county planning commissions, their creation and appointment.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-827 and 8-828 of the Code of Virginia, relating to place where food or drink products are handled, the sections, respectively relating to notice and warning to place premises in sanitary condition and to the penalty for failure to obey such notice and warning.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 36-8, 36-9 and 36-11 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the controlling nature of the provisions of the Housing Authorities Law, and appointment, tenure and compensation of commissioners of housing authorities.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46-155, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to license fees for leased passenger carrying vehicles.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 6-207, 6-218, 6-214, 6-217, 6-218, 6-228, 6-224, 6-225, 6-226 and 6-229 of the Code of Virginia, relating to credit unions.
An Act to amend and reenact § 54-200 of the Code of Virginia, relating to duty of Commonwealth’s attorneys to prosecute certain violations relating to practice of dentistry and to amend the Code by adding §§ 54-200.23 and 54-200.24 to confer jurisdiction to enjoin unlawful practice of dentistry and dental hygiene on certain courts and to prescribe the procedure for such injunction proceedings.
An Act to amend and reenact § 54-750 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the qualifications for licensing as real estate brokers and salesmen.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-450, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to annual registration fees for corporations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 2-92 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compromise and settlement of disputes, claims, and controversies, to permit the discharge of certain claims.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 6-10, 6-20, 6-146, 6-152, 6-164, 6-204, 6-206, 6-286, 6-242, 6-250 and 6-251 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the incorporation of banks, building and loan associations, credit unions and industrial loan associations, the merger and consolidation of banks and the conversion of such corporations, dissolution thereof and deposit requirements in order to conform the provisions of such sections as presently existing to proposed revisions of the Code of Virginia relating to the law of corporations, and to repeal § 6-12.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the amendment of bank charters to abolish cumulative voting.
An Act to amend and reenact § 8, as amended, of Chapter 194 of the Acts of Assembly of 1984, approved March 27, 1984, which provided a new charter for the town of Lawrenceville, Virginia, so as to provide that the town may levy taxes to meet obligations imposed by certain bond issues.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3-310 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Penalties for violations of certain acts related to the adulteration, misbranding and false advertising of foods.
An Act to amend and reenact § 6-78, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to limitation on amount of loans made by banks upon real estate security.
An Act to amend and reenact § 55-125, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to validation of certain acknowledgments.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered § 33-116.1, to provide for connections over shoulders of highways for intersecting commercial establishment entrances, to provide for issuance of permits, and to provide a penalty for violations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 38.1-802 of the Code of Virginia, relating to license required of agent.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-418 of the Code of Virginia, exempting certain businesses and professions from a tax on capital so as to exempt certain other businesses.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-249 of the Code of Virginia, relating to quarterly license taxes.
An Act to amend and reenact Section 54-278, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to division of fees between physicians and surgeons.
An Act to amend and reenact Chapter 16 of Title 56 of the Code of Virginia, consisting of §§ 56-485 to 56-508, both inclusive, relating to telephone co-operative associations.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-141 of the Code of Virginia, relating to execution of certain income tax returns.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 82-117 and 82-119, as amended, § $2-120.1, §§ 32-128 and 32-129, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to mattresses, upholstered furniture and other articles of bedding; and to amend the Code by adding sections numbered 32-122.1 and 32-122.2 requiring certain information to accompany shipments of filling material, and the tagging of bulk filling material.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding §§ 8-451.1 through 8-451.17, and to repeal §§ 8-425 through 8-451 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections relate to control of ice cream and frozen products.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46-105.8, to provide for the issuance and use of temporary license plates by purchasers of motor vehicles, to regulate the same, to require the maintenance of certain records in connection therewith, and to provide penalties for violations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 54-480 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the renewal of permits to sell or dispense medicines.
An Act to amend and reenact § 88.1-281 of the Code of Virginia, relating to acting as agent for unlicensed insurance companies.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-266.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to business exempt from city and town licenses so as to exempt certain business.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 3-598.1, 3-598.4 and 3-598.6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the feeding of garbage to swine.
An Act to amend and reenact § 144 (c) of Chapter 34, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which chapter provided a new charter for the city of Norfolk and which section relates to the powers and duties of the Norfolk Port Authority.
An Act to amend and reenact Chapter 9 of Title 56 of the Code of Virginia, consisting of §§ 56-209 to 56-281, both inclusive, relating to electric co-operative associations.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-1118, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to application for relief from State taxes.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 9-16.1, authorizing the Virginia Athletic Commission to impose certain conditions precedent to the issuance of certain licenses to persons required to obtain same from the Commission; to authorize the Commission to investigate the existence of monopolies, combinations and other restraints upon wrestling, boxing and sparring matches and exhibitions within the State; to authorize the Commission to obtain the assistance of the Attorney General in connection therewith; to empower the Attorney General to make such investigations, and to provide for the defraying of the cost thereof.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 88.1-257.1, to provide for the combining of other kinds of insurance with fire insurance.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 6-279, 6-285, 6-286, 6-290, 6-801, 6-302, 6-809, 6-810, 6-816, 6-817, 6-820, 6-828, 6-888 of the Code of Virginia, all being part of the Small Loan Act, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto § 6-816.1, in order to increase the maximum amount of loan from $800 to $600, to provide a rate of charge on such increase, and to provide certain additional requirements relating to the issuance of licenses and conducting business there.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 9 of Chapter 88 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, approved February 14, 1952, which incorporated the city of Virginia Beach, the section relating to imposition of taxes on real and personal property within the city of Virginia Beach.
An Act to repeal § 6-82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the publication of certificates of authority of banks.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8, as amended, 4, 5, as amended, 6 and 7 of Chapter 125 of the Acts of Assembly of 1872-78, approved March 8, 1878, which incorporated the town of Louisa, in Louisa County, the amended sections relating to officers of the town and the powers of council, the duties and powers of the mayor, elections and the appointment, and duties and powers of the town sergeant and the town secretary.
An Act to repeal § 3-295 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the screening of doors, windows and other openings of food producing or distributing establishments.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2, 4,12, 13, 14, 19, 28, 28, 33, 48 and 56 of Chapter 216 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, approved March 7, 1952, which provided a charter for the city of Roanoke, the amended sections relating, respectively, to the powers of the city; composition of the city council; legislative procedure of the council; effective date of ordinances and emergency measures; record and publication of ordinances and resolutions; conduct of elections; creation of city departments; clerk of the municipal court; the annual budget; public advertising; and the powers and duties of the school board.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-431, 58-445, 58-447, 58-459 and 58-468, relating to fees and taxes payable by corporations, the filing of returns and the effect of failure to pay taxes and file returns; and to repeal §§ 58-446, 58-452 and 58-458, relating to tax payments by corporations.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-188 of the Code of Virginia, relating to consolidated or separate corporation income tax returns.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 7 of Title 38.1 a new article designated Article 2.1, consisting of sections numbered 88.1-801.1 through 38.1-801.9, inclusive, to provide for the qualification of life insurance and accident and sickness insurance agents.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-806, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to license tax applicable to wholesale merchants, so as to reduce such tax.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 37-34.3, providing for appointment by the Governor of a Business Manager for the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals and to empower the Governor to prescribe the duties and fix his compensation.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-508, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the definitions of certain words and terms used in Chapter 7 of Title 46 of the Code.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 6-122, 6-123, 6-197, 6-230 and 6-257 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain fees payable to the Bureau of Banking of the State Corporation Commission by certain financial institutions and to provide for the effective date thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact 8§ 8, 5, 8 and 19 of Chapter 887 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, approved March 1, 1948, which provided a new charter for the town of Pulaski, the amended sections relating, respectively, to the town boundaries, town powers, councilmen, and the town manager.
An Act to prohibit removal, change or alteration of manufacturers’ serial or other identification numbers from certain household appliances; to prohibit possession of such appliances for purposes of re-sale when such number has been removed, changed or altered; and to prescribe penalties for violation.
An Act to amend and reenact § 54-142 of the Code of Virginia, relating to penalty for violation of provisions of Chapter 7, Title 54, concerning contractors, and to prescribe certain conditions precedent to asserting said section as a defense in certain actions.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-117.2, 8-117.8, 8-117.4, 8-117.6, 8-117.7, 8-117.8, 3-117.19, 3-117.21, $-117.29, 8-117.80 and 8-117.82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fertilizer and fertilizer materials; regulating the manufacture, sale, transportation and distribution thereof and providing penalties for violations.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 8-610, 8-611, 8-618 through 8-615, 8-617, 8-619 through 3-624, 8-626 through 8-680, 8-681, 8-684 through 8-688 and 8-640 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulation of manufacture, sale and distribution of certain animal feeds; imposition of certain fees charged for inspection thereof, imposition of certain duties on the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration and providing penalties for violation; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding new sections numbered 3-621.1, 8-684.1, and 3-684.2, relating, respectively, to appointment of agents by certain non-residents, withdrawal from sale of certain animal feeds, and assessments to be imposed by the Commissioner in certain cases; and to repeal §§ 3-625, 8-680.1, 8-682, and 8-688 of the Code of Virginia, relating, respectively, to changes in analysis of certain feeds, certain bulk sales, optional method of payment of inspection fees and form of tax tags on stamps.
An Act to permit the Cities of Hampton, Newport News and Warwick, acting pursuant to Section 15-220 et seq. of the Code of Virginia, 1950, and Acts Amendatory thereto, to incorporate in the provisions of the agreement providing for consolidation of all three cities certain optional provisions which may be set forth in whole or in part in any agreement submitted in a referendum on consolidation of all three cities, and to provide for the provisions which may be included
An Act to require the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of an act entitled an act for the appointment of trustees for the town of York, approved March 16, 1918, as heretofore amended, relating to town property.
AN ACT to amend Chapter 116 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1948, providing a new charter for the City of Richmond by adding a new chapter to the charter numbered 5-1 titled Department of Purchases and General Services, consisting of sections numbered 5-1.1 through 5-1.5, establishing a department of purchases and general services in the government of the city of Richmond and prescribing the powers and duties thereof, to repeal 8§ 5.09 through 5.12, as amended, of said chapter, to amend and reenact § 5.18, as amended, and §§ 12.07 and 12.08 of said chapter, all dealing generally with the purchase, lease and disposal of supplies, materials, equipment and services for the city of Richmond and the making of contracts, and to amend and reenact § 11.10 of said chapter, relating to the bureau of traffic safety of the department of public safety of the city of Richmond.
AN ACT to provide for the submission of proposed amendments to §§ 155 and 161 of the Constitution of Virginia to the qualified voters for ratification or rejection, and to prescribe when and how such referendum shall be had, and the manner in which the results thereof shall be ascertained and certified, the returns canvassed, and the vote thereon proclaimed by the Governor.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-871.2, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to professional bondsmen so as to provide for certain courts in cities to issue certificates and allowing courts to suspend bondsmen under certain circumstances.
An Act to amend and reenact § 55-152 of the Code of Virginia, relating to transaction of business without disclosing name of principal or partner.
An Act to amend and reenact § 48-17 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the limitation upon suits to enforce mechanics’ and material men’s liens.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-266.8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of taxation of certain counties so as to extend such powers to other counties, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 58-266.5, relating to the situs for local license taxation.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 54-401 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15-220, as amended, 15-221, 15-222.8, as amended, 15-224, 15-280 and 15-281.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to consolidation of counties, cities and towns, localities which may consolidate, consolidation agreement and referendum, optional provisions of consolidation agreement, order for election, effect of consolidation on jurisdiction of courts, and application of this article of the Code.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-18 of the Code of Virginia, relating to automobile graveyards and powers of governing bodies of counties and cities in relation thereto.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55-184.1, to validate certain certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-884 of the Code of Virginia, relating to enforcement of motor carrier laws; appointment, powers and duties of agents, inspectors and investigators.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 55-186 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conveyances of real estate by corporations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the town of Courtland in the county of Southampton”
An Act to amend and reenact § 65-115 of the Code of Virginia, relating to records and reports of industrial accidents.
An Act providing for the organization of a Parking Authority as a public body and body politic and corporate by the city of Alexandria in the Commonwealth of Virginia; authorizing and empowering the Authority to acquire, construct, reconstruct, equip, improve, extend, enlarge, maintain, repair and operate off-street parking facilities; providing for the issuance of revenue bonds of the Parking Authority, payable solely from revenues; to pay all or any part of the cost of such parking facilities; granting to the Authority power to acquire necessary real and personal property and to exercise the power of eminent domain; providing for the imposition and collection of rates, rentals, fees and charges for the use of land for the services furnished by the parking facilities; authorizing the issuance of revenue refunding bonds; exempting from taxation and assessment such bonds and the parking facilities and the income therefrom; and prescribing the powers and duties of the Authority in connection with the foregoing and the rights and remedies of the holders of any bonds issued under the provisions of this act.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 56-338.29, 56-338.32, 56-838.34 and 56-888.86 of the Code of Virginia, relating to petroleum tank truck carriers so as to restrict issuance of certificates therefor, to provide for certain notice, restrict transfers of certificates, and restrict changes in rates.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 59-140.1, relating to weights and measures, and to provide a penalty for violation, and the right of review in a court of competent jurisdiction.
An Act to amend and reenact § 48-88 of the Code of Virginia, relating to liens of mechanics for repairs to personal property.
An Act to amend and reenact § 88-255.50 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Old Dominion Turnpike Authority so as to provide certain additional rights for owners of property subjected to condemnation and to define the terms “appraised price” and “appraisement”.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 44 Proposing amendments to §§ 155 and 161 of the Constitution of Virginia.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-876, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to expiration and renewal of operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses so as to increase the fee and require certain notices.
An Act to amend and reenact § $8.1-286 of the Code of Virginia, relating to collection of premiums on certain insurance contracts.
An Act to amend and reenact § 3.01, §§ 8.05 and 8.11, as amended, § 8.14, § 4.02, as amended, § 8.05, §§ 9.08 and 9.06, as amended, § 9.09, and §§ 9.12, 9.19 and 10.01, as amended, of Chapter 586 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 7, 1950, being the charter of the city of Alexandria; to amend said chapter by adding thereto a section numbered 4.08; and to repeal §§ 8.08 and 9.07 of said chapter.
An Act to amend and reenact § 56-888.14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to transfer or lease of certificate under household goods care 8b)
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto sections numbered 26-16.1 and 26-85.1, relating to certain information to be returned to fiduciaries under certain circumstances.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28-249, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the board of administration of the Virginia Fisheries