Employment and labor

1915
An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his child or children under the age of sixteen years; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provisions for the apprehension and punishment of persons convicted of non-support, and providing that persons convicted of non-support shall be sent to the convict road force in certain contingencies; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of said recognizances; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; and making chief of police and sheriff probation officers in certain contingencies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to define and classify industrial sick benefit companies.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of funds not otherwise appropriated, to provide for additional clerical and stenographic services in the office of the attorney general.

1916
AN ACT to refund to B. F. Day, of Rockbridge county, a certain amount of taxes unlawfully paid on income.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of same, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, approved March 14, 1910, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914.
An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 17, 1915, Entitled an Act to Create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and County and City Boards of Review of Assessments; to Define the Powers and Duties of Such Board; to Fix the Compensation of Their Members and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act; to Provide for the Review of Reports of Purchases by Merchants and the Review of the Annual Returns and Assessments of Intangible Personal Property, Income and Money, by Certain Officials and Fixing Their Compensation Therefor and to Provide Penalties for the Violation of This Act, and to Repeal an Act Entitled An Act to Create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and County and City Boards of Review of Assessments to Define the Powers and Duties of Such Boards; to Fix the Compensation of Their Members and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act: to Provide for the Review of Assessments on Intangible Personal Property, Income and Money by Certain Officials, and Fixing Their Compensation Therefor and to Provide Penalties for the Violation of This Act, Approved February 16, 1915. And to Change the Name of the State Advisory Board to the State Tax Board and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act.
An ACT to amend chapter 333 of the acts of 1914, in relation to the ventilation of found ies, by adding an independ2nt section thereto, providing for adequate toilets and wash rooms.
An ACT for the relief of Ollie Fowler
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 128 and 129 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1908, and acts amendatory thereof.
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide for the Working of Certain Long Term or Desperate Convicts by the Superintendent of the Penitentiary, the Governor and the Commissioner of Agriculture, for the Manufacture of Ground Limestone and Oyster Shells, and Incidentally for the Disposition of Same, and the By-Products Suitable for Road Construction, to the Citizens of the State, Adding the Manufacture of Ground Marl.
An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to establish a convict camp at Catawba sanatorium for the purpose of constructing necessary roads, walks and such other improvements as may be agreed upon by the State highway commissioner and the State health commissioner, and prescribing the manner in which the expenses of such force shall be paid.
An Act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, and 5 of an act entitled an act to regulate the professional nursing of the sick in the State of Virginia, approved May 14, 1903, and to add an independent section to said act, designated as section 13.
An ACT to provide for policewomen in all cities having a population of 15,000 or over as shown in the latest United States census.
An ACT to permit females to qualify, give bond and act as deputy clerks in all courts of this Commonwealth.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk and to empower the council of the city of Norfolk to establish an employment bureau.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4130 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 509 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to commissioners of the revenue extending levies and taxes, and compensation thereof as amended by an act approved March 11, 1912.
An ACT to make it larceny to receive money or other thing of value with intent to injure or defraud, from any person engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other thing of value so received.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to consolidate into one act, all acts relating to Confederate pensions, and to repeal all acts, and parts of acts, in conflict herewith.
An ACT to define and regulate the practice of optometry, to provide for the establishment of a board of examiners in optometry, for the examination of practitioners of optometry, for registration and license of practitioners, to provide for a penalty for violations of this act, and for other purposes.
An ACT relating to liability of common carriers, whose motive power is steam and engaged in intrastate commerce, for injuries to, or death of, their employees, and provide for the pleading thereof; provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to electric railways or roads that are in part electric, operated wholly within this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate employment bureaus or agencies and to provide penalties for violation of same
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved March 138, 1912, chapter 178 of acts of 1912, entitled an act concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the bureau of labor and industrial statistics.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act appointing trustees for the town of Christiansburg, in the county of Montgomery, and for other purposes, giving said town a charter
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads, and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair of all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves in the several counties of this State and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 12, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 18, and 14 of an act approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings for building and keeping in good order and repair all public roads, bridges causeways and wharves and so forth, approved March 7, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1908, as amended as to section 5 thereof by an act approved March 14, 1910, as amended as to section 47 thereof by an act approved March 16, 1910.

1918
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary public.
An ACT to provide for the training and licensing of attendants for the sick under certain conditions.
An ACT to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and of local board of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers and agents in connection with the preservation of public health; and prescribing penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpoenas issued by said State board of health, or any authorized member thereof, for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in contempt of said State board or its duly authorized members, approved March 7. 1900
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916 and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to enact and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham, approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1890, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 25, 1892, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896, approved March 15, 1904, as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910, approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, and railroad clerks the payment of wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States, approved May 28rd, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 4 of section 20 of the charter of the city of Norfolk, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1916.
An ACT to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 5, 1916, entitled an act to make it larceny to receive money or other thing of value with intent to injure or defraud, from any person engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other thing of value so received.
An ACT to regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred ($300) dollars, to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned; by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiner of banking division of the corporation commission in respect to licensees; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 3401 of the acts of 1908, regulating the employment of children in certain employments, approved March 13, 1908, as amended by chapter 339 of the acts of 1914, approved March 27, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives
An ACT to define and regulate the practice of poropathy and manipulative surgery, to provide license of practitioners thereof, and to provide for a penalty for the violation of this act, and for other pur.
An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts.
An ACT regulating the hours of labor of women.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and any section or sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions thereof, especially an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 22, 1894, and sections 1744, 1745, 1476, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751 and 1752 of the Code of Virginia of 1887; and all amendments thereto, approved March 13, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1806, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the acceptance of the conditions of the federal act commonly called the Smith-Hughes bill (public No. 347, 64th congress), and authorizing the State board of education to act as a State board of vocational education for the Commonwealth, and authorizing the treasurer of the State of Virginian to act as custodian of such funds as may be received from the federal government, and to pay the same out on warrant drawn by the State board of education, and authorizing the State board of education to establish a department of vocational education. and appropriating money therefor.
An ACT to set forth the qualifications prerequisite to taking examination as registered pharmacists, on and after April 1, 1922,
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions.
An ACT to require the equipment of grinding, polishing and buffing wheels with suitable devices for the protection of operators and other persons from dust and refuse thrown off from such wheels; making non-compliance a misdemeanor and providing penalty.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing forty thousand inhabitants or more for the appointment of matron for the jails, and to fix their compensation and provide how the same shall be paid
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 280 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1656-a of the Code of Virginia.

1919es
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain: the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic on and use of the State Highway System, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations.
An ACT to appropriate a sum sufficient to increase the salaries and wages of the officers and employees of the State Farm ten per centum.
An ACT to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay an increase of ten percentum to all state employees at the seat of government, based on the aggregate amount of salaries or wages drawn, or to be drawn, by them, respectively, from September 1, 1919, to February 29, 1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 46, 9244 and 118% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest, on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1908, and acts amendatory thereof, and to add thereto a new section to be known ao D ol 51%.

1920
An ACT for the protection of persons employed in the construction or repair of railroad cars or car trucks or similar equipment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia-of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico and the State of Virginia; that the State will assume the control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association, approved March 16, 1918.
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 1636 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 16, 17 and 18 of an act entitled an act to regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred ($300) dollars, to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiners of banking division of the corporation commission in respect to licensees; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908 as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary public
An ACT to permit females to qualify, give bond and act as deputy clerks in all courts of this Commonwealth; and to validate certain acts heretofore performed by females acting as such deputy clerks.
An ACT to provide for submission to the people for approval and ratification the proposed amendments to section 32 of article 2, section 117 of article 8, section 133 of article 9, section 136 of article 9, section 138, and section 184 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, of an act entitled an act to authorize and regulate the exchanges of certain classes of reciprocal and inter-insurance contracts among individuals, partnerships and corporations, empowering corporations generally to make such contracts, regulating process in suits on such contracts, and prescribing certain fees, taxes and licenses and penalty for violation
An ACT to amend section 3027 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing forty thousand inhabitants or more for the appointment of matrons for the jails, and to fix their compensation and to provide how the same shall be paid, approved March 12, 1908, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to provide for public health nursing, health examinations and physical education of school children, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for public health nursing and medical inspection and health inspection of school children, approved March 15, 1918.
An ACT to allow members of the United States military or naval reserve force, to hold office under the government of this Commonwealth or the political or administrative subdivision thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2942, 2943, 2944 and 2945 of the Code of Virginia.
An Act to amend section 1646 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2806 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 26, 29,30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 42, 48, 53, 55, 57, 68, and 75 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents ; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methads for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law March 21, 1918.
An ACT to permit children over the age of twelve years to work
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3935 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and education of employees injured in the course of their employment; to create and establish a division of vocational rehabilitation under the control and supervision of the industrial commission of Virginia; to provide for co-operation with the United States government in the prosecution of similar work, and to make an appropriation to carry said act into effect.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend section 659 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for relief from employment on Sundays of certain employees of the State and the departments thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of article 2 and section 1 of article 3, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 2, 1914, and by an act approved March 1, 1916.
An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $90,000.00 and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in Wilson, Elk Creek and Old Town magisterial districts of said county; to provide for the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issue; to authorize the purchase of machinery and tools necessary therefor; to authorize the employment of civil engineers, road builders and labor; to specify the roads and parts thereof to be constructed and the amounts to be expended thereon; to provide for imposing a tax on all property, county and district, including property in any incorporated town situated within the above named districts, for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of such debt; to do all things necessary, needful or incidental to the main purposes of this act; and to declare an emergency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1810 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of the family of J. C. Shelhorse.
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 low rate of interest.

1922
An ACT to make it unlawful for any person to knowingly or wilfully make any false or fraudulent statement or representation of any material fact in or with reference to any application for insurance or as to the death or disability of a policy or certificate holder in, or for the purpose of procuring or attempting to procure the payment of any false or fraudulent claim against, or for the purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain any money from or benefit in any industrial sick benefit company licensed, or which may be licensed to do business in this State, and to provide penalties for its violation.
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.
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 sections 1945 to 1953, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and to add six new sections to the said Code, to be numbered 1951a, 1951b, 1951c, 1951d, 1951e, and 1951f.
An ACT to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to make appropriation for its maintenance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizance, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1799, 1802, 1807, 1817, 1822 and 1830 and to repeal sections 1831 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to regulate the employment of children
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a population of thirty thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices.
An ACT to provide for the acceptance of the benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise; to provide for the appointment of a custodian of all moneys received by the State from appropriations made by the Congress of the United States for the purpose stated; to provide for the appointment of a State board to co-operate with the Federal board for vocational education in carrying out the provisions of said act, and prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for a plan of co-operation between such State board and the industrial commission of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State to establish county or city farms, and providing for the use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. [H B 6]
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and
An Act making appropriations for the support of the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the year ending February 29, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 45, 46, 61 and 69 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6438 of the Code of Virginia
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 1888 to 1902, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.