Employment and labor

1922
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 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, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894, approved February 1, 1915, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the training and licensing of attendants for the sick under certain conditions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3102, 3105 and 3106 of the Code of Virginia, 1919.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1704, 1706, 1708 and 1714 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3101 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved April 1, 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, approved March 3, 1886, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of the aforesaid act approved January 31, 1890, as further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in Mecklenburg county, approved February 19, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved January 30, 1900, approved March 16, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 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, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1707 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to prohibit the selling of children; to protect children from wilful or negligent injuries; and to prevent children from being overworked, tortured, tormented, mutilated, or cruelly beaten or cruelly treated.
An ACT for the relief of F. P. Pulley.
An ACT to require industrial sick benefit companies to insert in policies of industrial sick benefit insurance hereafter issued by them a provision permitting the cancellation of the sick benefit portion of the policy under certain conditions.
An ACT to provide for payment of compensation to Mrs. GH. Stevens for services as assistant land assessor for the city of Norfolk.

1923es
An ACT to authorize the establishment of a county hospital by the counties of Prince Edward and Cumberland, or either of them, and any contiguous county or counties, should the regular qualified voters of each such county so elect, and to provide for the submission of such question to the voters of the respective counties, and authorizing the issuance of bonds by the counties so electing for such purpose, upon the vote of the people so directing.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 786 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1920.
An ACT providing for the regulation, supervision and control of persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation on the improved public highways of this State which are, or may hereafter be declared to be, parts of the State highway system or any of the county highway systems; declaring motor vehicle carriers, as herein defined, to be common carriers, transportation companies and public service corporations within the meaning of the law; and prescribing ana im- posing license fees and providing for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two 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, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT to appropriate $15,000 to the secretary of the Commonwealth, payable out of the State highway maintenance and construction fund, to enable him to employ six additional inspectors to aid in the enforcement of the laws relating to motor vehicles.

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1625, 1626, 1629, 1630, i. and 1632 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide that a third person who is injured by a party carrying indemnity insurance shall be subrogated to the is of the part carrying such insurance and the insurance company shall be liable to suc third party up to the amount of the insurance carried by the party eine the injury.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for relief from employment on Sundays of certain employees of the State and the departments thereof
An ACT making it larceny to receive money or other thing of value with intent to injure or defraud, from anv person engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudu-<br />lently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other thing of value so received.
An ACT to establish and maintain a free employment bureau
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties, and for the regulation of traffic thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction and maintenance of the State highway system
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1822 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to re-amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro, known since consolidation with Basic City as Waynesboro-Basic, and to provide a charter for the town of Waynesboro.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Edinburg and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the town of Edinburg and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 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, 1903, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for a special police force in the county of Roanoke, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation, and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1662, 1664, 1665, 1670, 1673, 1674, 1678, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, and 1687, and to repeal section 1689 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections relate to the practice of arae
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1797 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1845, 1847, 1872, 1876, 1879, 1882 and 1887 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1636 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18-a, 19, 19-k, 19-n and 37, of the charter of the city of Richmond, as the same may have been heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining cities in the State of Virginia having a population of one hundred and seventy thousand or more; to provide for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices; and to rescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices and clerks; and to prohibit and provide penalties or alteration or failure to serve process issued by such trial justices ae clerks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, and by an act approved February 11, 1922.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20-a, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 50, 53, 55, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69 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 death 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

1926
An ACT requiring the governing boards or heads of State departments and institutions to provide for the registration of officers and employees when absent from duty.
An ACT for the relief of George P. Hening
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 80, 81, 131 and 145 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $1,080.00 for each year of the biennium ending February 29, 1928, to increase the compensation of certain employees in the State office building and library building.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond.
An ACT for the relief of Isaac B. Clark.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waverly, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the council and government of the town of Waverly and all powers heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office to be legal and valid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1294-k, Pollard’s Code, Supplement 1916, approved March 14, 1912, Acts Virginia Assembly 1912, page 583, entitled an act imposing upon railroad corporations liability for injury to their employees in certain cases omitted in the Code revision of 1919 and thereby repealed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (b) of section 2 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1808 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act regulating the hours of labor of women
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of the attorneys for the Commonwealth, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1922, and March 21, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5791 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, providing for the liability of intrastate common carriers by railroad operated by steam for injury to, or death of, employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 55, 61, 65, 67, 69 and 75 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1630 of the Code of Virginia relating to the practice of optometry, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4121 of the Code of Virginia regarding bank examiners and assistants.

1928
An ACT to provide for a special police force for the county of Fairfax, appointment and compensation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1929, and the 28th day of February, 1930.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 303 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to permit females to qualify, give bond, and act as deputy clerks, in all the courts of this Commonwealth; and to validate certain acts heretofore performed by females acting as such deputy clerks,” approved March 19, 1920.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 80, 81, 131 and 145 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 64 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News as amended by an act approved March 24, 1920.
An ACT to establish the office of county road engineer for the county of Southampton; to provide for his appointment, compensation, and removal; and to prescribe his powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6555 of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemption of wages of a laboring man who is a householder or head of a family; and to provide for the securing of a living wage to work-men who are heads of families.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Henrico county to appoint special policemen for said county; to prescribe their compensation, and terms of office, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, insofar as they apply to the county of Henrico.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of chapter 407 of the acts
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 404 of the Acts of 1922, entitled an act to provide for a special police force in certain counties, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation and defining their powers and duties
An ACT to repeal an act to require non-residents hunting in this State to pay the same fee required of citizens of this State by other States, when in excess of the Virginia fee, approved March 14, 1924, and to repeal sections 3209, 3328, 3329, 3330, 3331, 3332, 3333, 3334, 3335, 3337, and 3339 and to amend and re-enact section 3327 of the Code of Virginia relating to hunting, trapping and fishing license provisions and providing penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be designated as section 1050a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of trustees for ex-service persons found
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered section 4454a, making it a misdemeanor to receive anything of value, with intent to injure or defraud, from persons engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract for personal service, and fraudulently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund the thing of value
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 434 of the acts of 1922, providing for exceptions from jury service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 65 and 67 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. T. FE. Allen and Miss Clara Allen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1646 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to licenses to practice dentistry.
An ACT to amend sections 1257, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1264 and 1265, relating to licensing, bonding, and regulating commission merchants, and punishment for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, page 637, commonly known as the “workmen’s compensation law,” as last SETAE by chapter 7 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 7.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the disability of a person holding office or employ-ment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (c) of section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia and to add a new subsection to the said section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia to be designated (m), the said subsections being in relation to deductions allowed under the income tax law; also to amend and re-enact sections 71, 72, 73, 77, and 91 of the Tax Code of Virginia which sections are in chapter 7 and 8 of the Tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of intangible personal property and banks, banking associations and trust companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 75 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, page 637, commonly known as the workmen's compensation act, as last amended by chapter 7, of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, page 7, and to appropriate funds for the carrying into effect the performance of the duties required of the industrial commission under this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (i) of section 6, and section 7, of an act entitled “an act to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies other than life, providing a penalty for any violation hereof and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 16, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty, entitled 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 a low rate of interest.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the compensation and mileage of a judge holding a court other than his own.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, and 572 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the State board of accountancy, and to add a new section relating thereto, designated as section 572a.
An ACT to authorize the commission of fisheries to employ a civil engineer; to prescribe his duties, and fix his compensation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3418 and 3424 of the Code of Virginia, section 3418 of which as heretofore amended.
An ACT for the relief of Jessie Tyson.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Roanoke county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the school laws of Virginia and certain laws relating to the State board of education, its powers and duties; to repeal certain Code sections and substitute in their place such revised, consolidated and amended Code sections and acts of the general assembly passed since the year 1916, as relate or pertain to the public schools; to number such revised, consolidated and amended statutes as sections 611 to section 718 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, all of which said sections relate or pertain to the State board of education, its powers and duties, the superintendent of public instruction, division superintendents, the school system in Virginia; the laws relative to the public school system in the counties in all its phases and relating to every matter that may affect, or in any manner pertain to the public schools in the counties, including the abolition of all school boards and the transfer of their powers and duties after January 1, 1932, to the several boards of supervisors; to provide for the levying, collecting and expenditure of school taxes or appropriations made in lieu thereof; to abolish school districts for all purposes save for purposes of representation for capital expenditures, and the payment of present existing debts; to make all the provisions of such sections applicable to city schools, so far as possible; to repeal sections 586, 594 and 595 of the Code of Virginia and sections 611 to 773 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, and any and all acts amendatory of such sections, all of which Code sections relate to the public schools, or matters pertaining thereto; to repeal chapter 412 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 381 of the acts of 1922, both of which relate to the compulsory attendance of children between certain ages upon the public schools of Virginia; to repeal chapter 233 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 327 of the acts of 1920, both of which relate to public health nursing and medical and health inspection of school children; to repeal chapter 32 of the acts of 1918, relating to the exemption of school and college pupils, and the vehicles in which they are traveling, from the payment of tolls on any roads located in this State; to repeal chapter 295 of the acts of 1918, permitting the teaching of high school subjects in primary schools in certain cases; to repeal chapter 371 of the acts of 1918, providing for deposit and disbursement of donations for public free school purposes; to repeal chapter 352 of the acts of 1918, authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans; to repeal chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, relating to local school taxes, except so much thereof as repeals sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of 1919, and all amendments to such act which are found in chapter 29 of the acts of 1923 and chapter 175 of the acts of 1924; to repeal chapter 106 of the acts of 1924, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, by adding thereto section la, relating to local school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 143 of the acts of 1922, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the State; to repeal chapter 423 of the acts of 1922, creating county school boards, providing for their powers and duties, abolishing district boards, etc.; to repeal chapter 148 of the acts of 1922, providing for the establishment of recreation centers and for the teaching of home-crafts; to repeal chapter 46 of the acts of 1926, relating to the borrowing of money by school boards, authorizing short time loans, prohibiting certain other loans and prohibiting school boards from expending or contracting to expend, in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for that year, unless approved by the boards of supervisors or the councils, etc.; to repeal chapter 493 of the acts of 1926, relating to school taxes; to repeal chapter 529 of the acts of 1926, prohibiting the State board of education from refusing to accredit any school, or any diploma or certificate issued by such school, for the sole reason that such school is not being conducted in a building meeting the requirements of said board; to repeal chapter 564 of the acts of 1926, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the Commonwealth; to repeal chapter 62 of the acts of 1926, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, in relation to local school levies, and relating especially to school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 189 of the acts of 1926, authorizing the issuance of bonds by county school boards for the purpose of refunding school bonds issued on behalf of the school districts; to repeal sections 1529 and 1530 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal sections 798 and 849 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal all Code sections, acts and parts of acts, which are, or may be, in conflict with the provisions of the statutes embraced in the contents of this bill.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county, approved February 18, 1924.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.

1930
An ACT to provide for payment of small sums due from employers State of Virginia or United States to distributees of decedents upon whose estates there have been no qualifications.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 85 of the acts of assembly of 1918, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions,’ approved February 28, 1918, as amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3146 of the Code of Virginia relating to the commissioner and commission of fisheries.
An ACT to repeal section 102 of chapter 64, acts of 1895-96, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, relating to the disposition of money to the credit of the sinking fund; and to amend and re-enact section 91 of said act, relating to the election and duties of the constable; and to amend and re-enact section 103 of said act, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1920, relating to contracts for the erection and construction of public improvements.
An ACT to provide for the employment of foremen to supervise the working of the roads of Louisa county, and to compensate them therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.