Gambling
| An ACT for the Prevention of Prize-Fighting within the State |
| An ACT to Prevent Prize Fighting, and the Fighting of Dogs, Cocks, and other Animals, in the County of Alexandria. |
| An ACT for the Relief of Edgar Allan, of Farmville, Prince Edward County. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Seventeen of an Act approved March 21, 1871, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Liberty, in the County of Bedford, and to Add to said Charter Sections 24, 25, 26 27 and 28. |
| An ACT for the relief of Elizabeth M. Barker, of Lee |
| An ACT for the relief of George Ben Johnston, of Wash-ington county. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Southern Association for the benefit of the Widows and Orphans of the Southern States. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact 20th section of Chapter 199, of the Code of Virginia, (edition of 1860), in regard to witnesses in prosecutions for unlawful gaming. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 43 of Acts of 1872-3, entitled an act to encourage Agricultural and Industrial Fairs. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Grange Camp Association of Northern Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend section 2462 of the code of Virginia in regard to reservation of title to goods and chattels sold upon condition. |
| An ACT relating to building and loan association: not incorporated in the state. |
| An ACT to prevent and punish betting, gambling, |
| An ACT to suppress tippling houses, the illegal and unlawful traffic in ardent spirits in the counties of Lee, Pulaski, Scott, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, Bland, and Russell. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Staunton, in force March 22, 1872, as amended by sundry subsequent acts. |
| An ACT relating to the entry and riding or driving of horses at places where purses, premiums or stakes are competed for. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the first and second sections of an act to prevent and punish betting, gambling and the making, writing or selling of books or pools or mutuals on the results of any trotting race or running race of horses, or race of any kind, or on any election or contest of any kind, or on any game of baseball. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3818 of the code of 1887, in relation to betting or playing at faro, or at the said games, or at any game except, «c., at a public place; how punished. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Eastern Shore game protection association of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2838 of chapter 132 of the code of Virginia, relating to dealings with students and gaming. |
| AN ACT to provide for imposing a specific license tax on slot machines into which are dropped pennies or nickels or coins of other denominations and used in the state to dispose of cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum or other articles of merchandise, and on musical devices, &c., which operate on the nickel in the slot principle to increase the revenues of the state. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3820 of the code of Virginia, in relation to a keeper ofan ordinary, house of entertainment, or bar-room, per- miting unlawful gaming at his house, &e., and how punished. |
| An ACT to regulate the sale of cider and other intoxicants in the village of Lovingston, in Nelson county. |
| An Act to prohibit winter racing in the state of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3693 code of Virginia, as to prize fighters, how punished, and to prohibit prize fighting and pugilism and fights between men and animals. |
| An ACT to prevent pool seiling, and so forth, upon the results of any trials of speed of any animals or beasts taking place without the limits of the commonwealth. |
| An ACT to prevent gambling and selling or making books, pools or mutuals within the commonwealth of Virginia. |
| An ACT to punish the illicit traffic in intoxicating liquors in the counties of Wythe, Carroll and Grayson. |
| An ACT to prohibit keeping or exhibiting, or being concerned in interest in keeping or exhibiting, any slot machine or device that operates on the nickel-in-the-slot principle, in operating which the element of chance enters in. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1681 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, in relation to commitment certain persons to insane hospitals. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 142 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 5 to 147, inclusive, of an-act approved April 16, 1903,” and to provide how social clubs chartered since April 16, 1903, shall obtain licenses to sell ardent spirits, etc. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Liberty, to extend its limits, and change the name to Bedford City,” approved March 3, 1890. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4016 and 4018 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 2, 1904, concerning the trial of criminal cases and juries therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incor-porate the town of Manassas, as approved April 2, 1873; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1898, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1902." |
| AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit keeping or exhibiting, or being concerned in interest in keeping or exhibiting, any slot machine or device that operates in the nickel in slot principle, in operating which the element of chance enters in |
| An ACT to prohibit bucketing, bucket-shopping, and to abolish bucket shops; to declare the same unlawful and to prescribe the penalties therefor. |
| An ACT to regulate the sale of cider and other intoxicants in Arvonia village, Buckingham county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Bedford City, in the county of Bedford, at a special election to be held therefor, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Bedford City, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter, within said town, or within one mile of its limits, the sale, barter, or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein, and to provide for a second election to be held after two years from the date of the first election. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3792 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fighting cocks, dogs, etc. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 101 of an act approved April 16, 1903, 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, as amended and re-enacted. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for parents or guardians to refuse or neglect to support their children under fourteen years of age, or to subject children under seventeen years of age to vicious or immoral influence, encourage any child to commit a misdemeanor, or to send a child under seventeen years of age to certain places; punishment therefor, and declaring an emergency. |
| An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Salem. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 139 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 |
| An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of the town of Warrenton, in the county of Fauquier, at a special election to be held therefor, when the town council so directs, the question of the establishment of a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town of Warrenton, and in the event of a majority of those voting at said election for said dispensary, then further to provide for the establishment and conduct of the same, and to prohibit thereafter within said town, or within one mile of its limits, the sale, barter or exchange of intoxicating liquors by all persons, firms or corporations, except as provided herein. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of an act approved April 29, 1874, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lawrenceville, in the county of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3798, chapter 185, of the Code of Virginia, re!ative to profane swearing and drunkenness. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for any person over the age of 18 years to cause or encourage any child under the age of 18 year to commit any misdemeanor; to send a child under 18 to certain places: or in any way to contribute to or cause a child under 18 to be guilty of vicious or immoral conduct, and providing punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 139 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 for a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 139 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 for a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912, as amended and re-enacted: by an act approved March 24, 1914. |
| An ACT to prohibit gambling. |
| An ACT to prohibit the conduct of any game played for money or thing representing money, and to prohibit receiving compensation from those who play at such game for conducting such game or otherwise, and to prescribe rules of evidence in prosecutions therefor, and for providing penalty for the violation of such act, and to confer concurrent original jurisdiction in such cases upon certain courts in Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to provide for the removal of persons holding any office of trust or profit under and by virtue of any of the laws of the State of Virginia, either State, county or municipal, except such officers as are by the Constitution removable only and exclusively by methods other than those provided by this act, who shall knowingly or wilfully misconduct himself in office, or who shall knowingly or wilfully neglect to perform any duty enjoined upon such officer by any law of the State of Virginia, or who shall in any public place be in a state of intoxication produced by ardent spirits voluntarily taken, or who shall engage in any form of gambling or who shall commit any act constituting a violation of any penal statute involving moral turpitude; and providing a procedure therefor; and for the appearance of the commissioner of prohibition, or some one representing his office, in certain cases arising hereunder. |
| An ACT to repeal section 141 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, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to prohibit gypsies and other strolling companies of persons pretending to tell fortunes and practice magic arts for money. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the boards of supervisors of the respective counties of the Commonwealth to pay rewards out of the county levies for the capture of illicit stills and delivery of the same to the sheriff of the county, and for the conviction of the person, or persons, guilty of operating the same, in the manufacture of ardent spirits, approved March 16, 1918. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4676 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 17 of an act entitle an act to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto, in effect January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4676 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4685 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to operation of slot machines, punch boards or similar devices. |
| An ACT to repeal sections 3316, 3318, 3319, 3320, 3322, 3323, 3326, and 3342 of the Code of Virginia and to amend and re-enact subsections first, second and third of section 3306 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of chapter 407 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, page 593, approved March 20, 1924, concerning intoxicating liquors, as amended in chapter 231 of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, page 417, approved March 23, 1926. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 25, 1930, in relation to slot machines. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gordonsville, 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. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 20, 28 and 46 of chapter 407 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, as heretofore amended, which chapter is an act concerning intoxicating liquors. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to slot machines. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4693-a, providing how the committing, or permitting, of any act prohibited by any one or more of sections 4676 to 4693, both inclusive, may be enjoined and restrained, and to prescribe the method of procedure for such purpose, said Code sections being in relation to gaming, gambling, betting and other similar offenses. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4694-a, prohibiting the manufacture, owning, storing, keeping, possessing, selling, exposing for sale, renting, lending, letting, giving away, transportation, operation and use of, and offering to do any of such acts with reference to, certain machines, apparatus or devices, herein defined as slot machines ; providing penalties for violations; and providing for the seizure and confiscation of such machines, apparatus and devices together with all moneys and tokens therein. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to license tax upon slot machines. |
| An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto, to be numbered Section 153-a, so as to authorize boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties to impose county license taxes on carnivals, shows, circuses and menageries. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the license taxation of slot machines, vending machines, and slot machine operators. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4694-a of the Code of Virginia, in relation to slot machines. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4694 of the Code of Virginia, relating to forfeiture of money and things of value drawn or received or proposed to be drawn in a lottery, so as to include money and personal property used in connection with the promotion, operation and conduct of a lottery or attempted lottery. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to slot machines. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4694-a of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to slot machines and devices. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to slot machines. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4676 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to keeping gaming tables, et cetera, and for forfeiture thereof, to provide that the court may award certain tables and other paraphernalia to charitable organizations or war recreation centers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to slot machines. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-29 of the Code of 1950, relating to issuance of search warrants, so as to include weapons or other objects used in the commission |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-302 of the Code of 1950, relating to forfeiture of property used for certain illegal purposes. |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 18-282.1, providing for seizure, confiscation and forfeiture of moneys and property used in connection with betting on certain races. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-802, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to forfeiture of property used for certain illegal purposes. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto §§ 18-244.1 and 18-244.2, relating to the crime of bribery of certain persons, and to provide a penalty therefor. |
| An Act to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to enact ordinances relating to lotteries and providing punishment therefor, and providing for money, gambling paraphernalia, or property of any kind or character used in connection with said lotteries to be forfeited to such counties. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 19-11 and 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia; and to amend the Code by adding a section numbered 18-805.1, the amended and new sections relating to forfeiture of certain drugs possessed or used in violation of law, property used in connection with such violation, enforcement of such forfeitures and search warrants in connection therewith. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-290 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the keeping and exhibition for sale or use of punch boards, slot machines and certain other devices. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 9 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 the licensing of motor vehicles of residents of the town. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 58-359 of the Code of Virginia, relating to license taxes on slot machine operators and exemptions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of Chapter 809 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 19, 1920, which provided anareet for the city of Bristol, the section relating to the powers of the city. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 4-114 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the suspension and revocation of licenses by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, to manufacture, bottle, distribute, transport, use and sell beverages containing not more than three and two-tenths per centum of alcohol by weight, so as to provide certain standards or grounds upon which the Board may suspend or revoke such licenses under certain circumstances. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 10, as amended, of Chapter 180 of the Acts of Assembly of 1884, approved February 19, 1884, amended and reenacted by Chapter 52 of the Acts of Assembly of 1888, approved January 30, 1888, which chapter provided a charter for the town of South Boston, so as to provide for the assessment of the cost of making and improving the walkways upon then existing streets, and improving and paving then existing alleys, and for either the construction, or for the use of sewers. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to when search warrants may issue in er eain ete |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8, as amended, of Chapter 194 of the Acts of Assembly of 1984, approved March 27, 1984, which provided a new charter for the town of Lawrenceville, Virginia, so as to provide that the town may levy taxes to meet obligations imposed by certain bond issues. |
| An Act to amend and reenact Section 4-87 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the suspension and revocation of licenses by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, so as to provide certain standards or grounds upon which the Board may suspend or revoke such licenses under certain circumstances and so as to provide for an appeal in certain cases. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to when search warrants may issue in certain cases. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 4-114, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the suspension and revocation of certain licenses issued by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, to provide for revocation or suspension of certain licenses under certain circumstances, to require notice and hearing before the Board may revoke and suspend certain licenses, and to permit the payment of costs by the licensee as a condition precedent to the removal of a license suspension. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-801 of the Code of Virginia, relating to lotteries. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to when search warrants may issue in certain cases. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 18-188, 18-140, 18-142 and 18-148 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Uniform Machine Gun Act. |
| An Act to revise, rearrange, amend and recodify the general laws of Virginia relating to crimes and offenses generally; to that end to repeal Title 18 of the Code of Virginia, which title includes Chapters 1 to 11 and §§ 18-1 to 18-366, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which title relates to crimes and offenses generally; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto in lieu of the foregoing title, chapters and sections of the Code repealed by this act a new title numbered 18.1, which title includes eight new chapters numbered 1 to 8, both inclusive, and new sections numbered §§ 18.1-1 to 18.1-429, both inclusive, relating to crimes and offenses generally; to prescribe when such revision and recodification shall become effective; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-84 of the Code of Virginia, providing for issuance of search warrants in certain cases. |
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