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Cemeteries

1964
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 3 of Title 57 an article, numbered 8.1, and containing sections numbered 57-85.1 through 57-35.10, requiring a method of funding endowment trusts for perpetual care of burial lots by certain cemeteries; prohibiting certain acts; and providing penalties for violations.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 83-142, 88-144, 38-146, 33-148, 88-149, 83-150, 83-151, 88-158 and 88-154 of the Code of Virginia, relating to roads and bridges established in counties, duty of viewers, procedure on viewers’ report, commissioners to assess damages, enhancement in value of residue, action of commissioners, payment of costs, compensation and damages and where road not to be located.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 57-89.2 through 57-89.7 of the Code of Virginia, which empower the owners of certain cemeteries to acquire abandoned cemetery lots and prescribe the procedure therein.

1968
An Act to repeal §§ 22, 26, 27 and 48, in Chapter 5 of Chapter 398, Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, as amended, which provided a charter for the city of Williamsburg; to amend such chapter by amending §§ 23 and 25, in Chapter 5, and §8§ 49 and 50, m Chapter 6, and § 62 in Chapter 8, and to further amend Chap. 398 by adding in Chapter 5, sections numbered 22.1 and 22.2; the repealed, amended and added sections relating to, respectively, the council’s power of control and management of fiscal and municipal affairs; prohibition against city’s taking private property without compensation in certain instances; the counctl’s power over encroachments on city property and power to levy taxes; the power of the city council to acquire land for burial of the dead, to prescribe fines and penalties for violation of ordinances; and to organize a fire department and enact fire zoning ordinances; to enact zoning ordinances generally and to adopt certain provisions relating thereto of Title 15.1 of the Code of Virginia; and the enumeration of the powers of city council.
An Act to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia, to be used in caring for Confederate cemeteries and graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors not otherwise cared for and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-12, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain property exempt from State and local taxation.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2.04, 2.09, 3.01, 4.01, 5.01, 6.01, 6.07, 8.12, 10.04, 20.02, 24.01, 24.06, 24.08, 24.14 and 25.01, of Chapter 141 of the Acts of Assembly of 1958, approved March 8, 1958, which provided a charter for the city of Newport News, and to further amend such chapter by repealing §§ 16.04, 19.08, 24.02, 24.08, 24.04, 24.05, 25.02, 25.07, 27.08, 27.14 and 27.16.
An Act to authorize the Board of Visitors of Virginia State College to convey land to the county of Chesterfield, Virginia.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-12, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to what property is exempt from State and local taxation.
An Act to amend and reenact § 57-89 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings for removal of the remains of certain dead bodies from graveyards under certain conditions; sale of land so vacated.

1966
An Act to amend and reenact § 58 of Chapter 34 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, relating to the Department of Public Welfare in the city of Norfolk.
An Act to amend and reenact, § 58-12, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to what real and personal property is exempt from State and local taxation.
An Act to create the Virginia Pork Industry Commission and to prescribe its powers and duties; to authorize the Commission to undertake programs to promote education and research as to the Virginia pork industry; to levy an excise tax on hogs produced in Virginia and sold for slaughter or sold as feeder pigs and provide for its collection; to create the “Virginia Pork Industry Fund” and to appropriate funds thereto; and to provide penalties for violations.
An Act to appropriate funds for Confederate Memorial Associations and the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia
An Act proposing amendments to Sections 169 and 188 of the Constitution of Virginia.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 44
An Act to amend and reenact § 83 of Chapter 480 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved April 2, 1940, which chapter provided a charter for the town of Holland; the amended section relating to the interment of the dead.
An Act to amend and reenact § 9, as amended, of Chapter 18 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved February 18, 1946, which provided a new charter for the town of Wytheville, the section relating to powers of the town.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8 and 5 of Chapter 39, Acts of Assembly, 1986, approved February 18, 1986, which provided a charter for the town of South Hill, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and to amend the chapter by adding a section numbered 10.1, the amended and new sections relating, respectively, to powers of the town; the election and terms of office of the mayor and councilmen, and the duties of the town manager.
An Act to amend and reenact § 65-87 of the Code of Virginia, relating to physicians for medical examination in workmen’s compensation cases.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 57-88.1, so as to provide for the removal of remains from abandoned graveyards.

1889/1890 Private Laws
An ACT to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol and provide a new charter for the same.
An ACT to incorporate the city of Danville
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds and to acquire land for a city cemetery.
An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Seven Pines railway company, incorporated by acts approved February 3, 1888, to build a branch road to the cemetery and battle-field of Cold Harbor, in the county of Hanover.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to acquire land for a cemetery.
An ACT to incorporate the Fincastle and Southern Botetourt development company.
An ACT to amend section 8 of the charter of the town of North Danville.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 48, chapter 5, of act approved February 13, 1890 entitled an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol and provide a new charter for the same.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Buena Vista, in the county of Rockbridge.

1878/79
An Act to empower the board of supervisors of Augusta county to levy a tax in aid of the Augusta Memorial Association for the Confederate dead
An ACT to incorporate the Rappahannoek Freedman’s Cemetery Company.
An ACT to incorporate the Sons and Daughters of Canaan, of the city of Alexandria, Virginia.
An Act to allow Barnes Brothers, of New Kent, to erect a pier in Chickahominy river, below Binn’s bar.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1878-79.
An ACT to provide an enclosure for the soldiers’ section in Hollywood cemetery.
An ACT to incorporate Saloine cemetery company, near Middleburg, Loudoun county, Virginia.

1879/80
An ACT to incorporate the Lovettsville Union Cemetery Company
An ACT to incorporate the Shiloh Colored Cemetery of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to incorporate the Green Hill Cemetery Company.
An ACT to incorporate Ever True Division, No. 32, Sons of Temperance, of City Point, Prince George county, Virginia.

1879es
An ACT to incorporate The Keezeltown Cemetery Company.