Children -- Institutional care
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Norton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and all former charters and amendments thereof, of said town. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax” |
| An ACT to provide for financial aid and assistance to and for certain needy persons in need of public aid or assistance; to that end, to provide for the administration of the provisions of this act, and for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, expenses, powers and duties of the officers, agents and employees, charged with the administration of the provisions of this act; to provide for State and local welfare administrative agencies; to impose certain duties upon the governing bodies of counties and cities; to appropriate money for, and in aid of, the purposes of this act; to impose penalties for violations of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Appalachia, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and all former charters and amendments thereof, of said town. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of an act entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties" |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1014-a, authorizing the State Hospital Board to provide for the receipt, custody and expenditure of private funds provided for the benefit of patients in State hospitals and colonies; to authorize, under certain conditions, the expenditure of such funds, whether heretofore or hereafter received, for the benefit of all or any part of the patients in such hospital or colony; and to ratify, approve and validate, certain such expenditures heretofore made. |
| An ACT to amend and. re-enact Section 1092 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the colony for feeble-minded colored persons, so as to establish said colony as a separate institution. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5323 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to interest to be paid by guardians. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 38, as amended, of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia”, approved March 21, 1928, relating to the powers of the council of the said city, so as to authorize the prohibition of lotteries and raffles therein, the fixing of certain penalties for violation of city ordinances, and prescribing the manner in which certain city ordinances shall be published. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Manassas, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Manassas, in Prince William county’ |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 16 of an act entitled ‘An act to provide a new charter for the city of Alexandria, Virginia” |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Cape Charles, Northampton county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Cape Charles. |
| An ACT to validate $55,500.00 of 2 per cent general obligation bonds issued by the city of Williamsburg, in pursuance of an ordinance of the City Council, and of an election on the question, held on November 7, 1939, the proceeds of said bonds to be used in connection with the erection of a public school building in said city, for colored children. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Wise, in the county of Wise; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office, not inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts, in conflict with this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1092 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the establishment of the Petersburg State Colony. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1006 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, establishing the State hospital Board and defining certain of its powers and duties. |
| An ACT to provide that the Judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court for any city having a population of not less than 100,000 nor more than 150,000 shall be elected by the General Assembly; to provide for the compensation of such judges, to prohibit them from practicing law, and to prescribe the application of general law to such judges and courts. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 668-a, authorizing the operation, by local school boards, of vacation schools and summer camps. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘An Act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved, respectively, February 29, 1892; February 24, 1896; March 3, 1898; January 13, 1900; January 30, 1900; February 23, 1901; the two acts of May 15, 1903; March 2, 1914; March 9, 1916, and the act of December 26, 1903, which became a law without the Governor’s signature; and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Hampton.’ |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1018 and 1019 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to proceedings for the commitment of insane, feeble-minded, epileptic and inebriate persons to the several State hospitals and colonies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1920 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals from certain courts with respect to delinquent, dependent and neglected children, so as to prescribe the courts in the city of Richmond to which such appeals will lie. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 979, 982 and 983 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children, so as to abolish the board of visitors of said school and place the same under the control, management and supervision of the State Board of Education, and to repeal Section 984 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject. |
| AN ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 973, 975 as heretofore amended, and 976 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers and duties of the Board of Visitors and the Superintendent of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, and to repeal Section 978 of the Code of Virginia relating to funds for the support of said institution. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the adoption of minor children. |
| An ACT to regulate the operation of certain summer camps, to require certain sanitary and health provisions to be made therefor, to provide for the inspection thereof and for the issuance and revocation of permits for the operation thereof and for appeals in certain cases, to confer and impose certain powers and duties upon the State Health Commissioner and the agents and employees of the Department of Health, and to prescribe penalties for violations. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 4, 8, 13, 14, 19, 26, 27, 36, 37, 43, 44, 49, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, 66, 68, and 69 of Chapter 379 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938; to further amend the said Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938 by adding thereto a new section numbered 31-a, relating to procedure when a change of residence of a recipient of aid occurs; and to repeal sections 67 and 70-a of the said Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938, the said sections relating to appropriations, and to the continuation of the Public Assistance Act of 1936, respectively. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 15 of an act entitled 'An act to continue the Board of Charities and Corrections under the name of State Board of Public Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children's bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections eighteen hundred and eighty-eight to nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.' |
| An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘An Act to provide educational opportunities for the orphans of soldiers, sailors and marines who were killed in action or died during the World War,’ so as to extend the benefits of the act to the children of certain disabled soldiers, sailors and marines. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 683 and 684, as heretofore amended, 685, and 686 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compulsory school attendance, records and reports and the duties of certain officers relating thereto, and providing penalties for violations; and to further amend the said Code by adding thereto a new section numbered 686-a, providing for the enforcement of compulsory attendance laws and penalties for violations. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gate City, in the county of Scott, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide for a referendum. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 3874-a requiring the State Corporation Commission to notify the Commissioner of Public Welfare of the presentation of certificates of incorporation by certain non-stock corporations. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Kenbridge, in the County of Lunenburg, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5790-a, providing how claims to damages for personal injury to infants or insane persons, where death did not ensue, may be compromised. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of Chapter 385 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, relating to issuing permits and licenses to minors, to drive motor vehicles. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 6, and 8, as amended, of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, of which the short title is “Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938”, said sections relating, respectively, to definitions, to local boards and to local superintendents and employees. |
| An ACT for the relief of Orlany Boothe and her two minor |
| An ACT to authorize certain officers and other persons to consent to surgical and medical treatment of persons under twenty-one years of age, under certain conditions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 684, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, providing methods for enforcing attendance of certain children at public schools. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5078 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the issuance of marriage licenses for certain persons under twenty-one years of age. |
| An ACT to authorize the Fredericksburg Normal and Industrial Institute to dispose of its property and distribute its assets. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5090 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the age of consent for marriage. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Chatham, in the County of Pittsylvania; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present governing body and council while in office, not inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter, numbered 216-A, and twelve new sections, numbered 5333-a to 5333-1, providing for the adoption of children and prescribing the procedure and incidents thereof; and to repeal Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 11, 63 and 64, as heretofore amended, 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 a new charter for the town of Chincoteague, Accomack County, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Chincoteague. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 13 of Chapter 489 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended, relative to the employment of children. |
| An ACT to regulate certain child welfare agencies; and to that end |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 682, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, prescribing who may be admitted to public schools, and the conditions imposed upon such admissions. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto to be numbered 5058-a relating to the transfer of inmates of the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls to the State Industrial Farm for Women. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 105, as heretofore amended, of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved February 27, 1922, relating to the powers and duties of the State Board of Public Welfare and of local boards of public welfare, by adding thereto a new section, numbered 14-a, authorizing local boards of public welfare to engage in certain child welfare activities, and to amend and re-enact Section 15 thereof, as heretofore amended, relative to the powers and duties of local superintendents of public welfare. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 324 of the Acts of 1922, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to require persons sixteen years of age or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents, who are in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and to repeal an act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1945 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to appointment of judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts, to provide that in any city having a population of more than 25,000 and lying wholly within a county having a population of more than 58,000, according to the last preceding United States census, the judge of such court need not be a person licensed to practice law. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333-d of the Code of Virginia relating to consent of certain persons in adoption cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1004 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 7 and 10, as amended, of Chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, relating to issuing permits and licenses to minors, to drive motor vehicles, and to examination and licensing of applicants for certain licenses. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as amended, of Chapter 105 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved February 27, 1922, relating to the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Public Welfare, and the fees paid for the maintenance of certain children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dissolution of marriages and divorce. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 683, 684, 685 and 686, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compulsory school attendance, providing methods for enforcing attendance of certain children at public schools, records and reports and the duties of certain officers relating thereto, and providing penalties for violation. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for tt |
| An ACT to create, establish and maintain an institution for the study, treatment, prevention and research of mental disorders and the training of students, nurses and physicians, under the name of the Virginia Institute of Psychiatry. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 40, as amended, of Chapter 400, Acts 1918, which became a law March 21, 1918, short title of which is “The Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 375 of the Acts of Assembly of 1930, approved March 24, 1930, providing for the education of children of persons killed or totally and permanently disabled as a result of service in World War I or World War II. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 30 of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, short title of which is Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938, relating to financial aid to dependent children in certain cases. |
| An ACT to require the school board of any county having an area and population within certain respective designated limitations to employ school attendance officers, prescribing their duties, and making certain violations of the provisions thereof misdemeanors and prescribing the punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to repeal Sections 1936, 1937 and 1938 in Chapter 80 of the Code of Virginia, relating to desertion and non-support; to amend the Code by adding in Chapter 80 seven new Sections numbered 1936, 1936-a, 1937, 1937-a, 1937-b, 1937-c and 1938, relating to the same subjects, to contain, with certain amendments, the same matters as the sections of the Code repealed and as contained in Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, as amended, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, which relate to the same subjects : and to repeal Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, and all amendments thereof, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, relating to the same subjects. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 1948-a, authorizing the appointment of referees in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts in certain cities, and prescribing the powers and duties of such referees. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1950 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to jurisdiction of juvenile and domestic relations courts so as to broaden the jurisdiction in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1948 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to special justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, special substitute justices, and their powers, duties and compensation. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 687-a, relating to adjustment for expenses of attendance in the public free schools of certain children under certain circumstances. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 227 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 14, 1942, relating to child welfare, children’s homes, et cetera, by adding a new section numbered 21, excepting certain institutions from the provisions of the chapter. |
| An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of counties to provide shelters, platforms or other structures at points on school bus routes for the protection and comfort of school children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as amended, of Chapter 180 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, which chapter provided for the establishment and operation of community homes for the care and maintenance of the poor, Section 2 relating to the selection of farms for such homes, and compensation of members of the board selected to control same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1079 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to examinations of alleged feeble-minded persons; to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1079-a, providing for the use of experts skilled in making mental tests as members of commissions to determine feeble-mindedness; and to repeal Chapter 275 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, relating to the same subject. |
| An ACT to authorize the State Board of Public Welfare to establish a state-wide system of public homes for certain persons, to prescribe standards for such homes and for the care of persons resident therein, and to eB Ca that persons cared for in such homes may receive public assistance. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1952, as amended, of the Code of Virginia so as to provide for reimbursing cities one-half of the compensation paid clerks, bailiffs, and other employees of juvenile and domestic relations courts. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 64 of the Acts of Assembly of 1895-6, approved January 16, 1896, which chapter provided a charter for the City of Newport News, by adding a new section, numbered 63-b, to provide for the construction, operation and maintenance of a detention home for certain children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5333-c and 5333-f of the Code of Virginia, relating to the procedure for the adoption of children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5321 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to disbursements by guardians and other fiduciaries for infants. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333-e of the Code of Virginia, relating to interlocutory orders and final orders of adoption in proceedings for the adoption of minor children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5090 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1948-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to referees in juvenile and domestic relations courts in certain cities, and providing for reimbursement by the Commonwealth of part of the compensation of such referees. |
| An ACT for the relief of George Turner. |
| An ACT to provide for the termination of employment of employees of State and local governments and governmental agencies by reason of certain acts of omission or commission intended to obstruct or suspend activities or functions of State and local governments, and to render such offending employees ineligible for re-employment in any such service during certain period of time thereafter. |
| An ACT to authorize the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to sell a tract of land in or near Staunton, Virginia, and to hold the proceeds of sale as a permanent endowment for such school. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 of Chapter 483 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved March 27, 1922, which chapter provided for the appointment, in the counties and in certain cities, of special justices to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts and prescribed their jurisdiction, powers, duties and compensation, Section 5 relating to powers and jurisdiction of such special justices. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the City of Radford and to repeal the existing charter of the said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act so far as they relate to the said City of Radford. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5333-m, relating to exercise of certain powers in regard to adoption by judges of courts in vacation. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Chase City, in the County of Mecklenburg, and to repeal the existing charter of the town, and all other acts inconsistent with this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5343 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dispensing with intervention of guardians for infants in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 15, as amended, of Chapter 489 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved March 27, 1922, the act and section relating to employment of children. |
| An ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the City of Alexandria, Virginia.”, approved March 24, 1932, as amended, by adding a new section, numbered 16-c, relating to jurisdiction, powers, duties and compensation of the judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court elected by the people. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1019 as amended, 1023, 1035-a, and 1077 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to hospitals for and care of the insane, epileptic, feebleminded and inebriate. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 683, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to compulsory school attendance. |
| An ACT to Vireiie a charter for the town of Warsaw, mn. the county of Richmond |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1914, as amended, of the Code of Virginia so as to provide for reimbursing cities two-thirds of the salaries of officers and employees engaged in maintaining juvenile detention homes, and for the payment of other expenses incident thereto. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 682, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to who may be admitted to public schools and the conditions imposed as to such admissions. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 59 of Chapter 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, which provided a new charter for the city of Hopewell, said section relating to the school d. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto numbered 1945-a relating to juvenile and domestic relations courts in cities containing more than one hundred and ninety thousand population according to the last United States census and providing for associate judges of said courts. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 62, as amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, relating to speed limits on aie |
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