Healthcare

1904
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 7, 1900, providing for the appointment of a State board of health.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 580 of the acts of the general assembly, extra session 1902-’03-’04, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, in relation to city officers.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1764 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, relating to the practice of pharmacy
An ACT to prohibit the establishment, location, or maintenance of small-pox hospitals.or pest-houses within fifty yards of any street, public road, public park, or public cemetery in any city, town, or county of the Commonwealth, or to hereafter establish any such hospital or pest-house within one hundred and fifty yards of any public road, public park, or cemetery in any county of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to require any person, firm or corporation employing large bodies of laborers, constructing works of public improvement, to have them regularly inspected by the board of health of the counties in which they are located.

1906
An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide Places of Abode and for the Safe Custody and Proper Guardianship of Children
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT concerning the bureau of insurance, and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies, and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal year ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1907, and the 29th day of February, 1908.
An ACT to provide for the expense of removing, supporting, and maintaining insane persons; how paid.
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 make further appropriations of the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending February 28, 1907, and February 29, 1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1767, 1769, 1774, and 1775 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, regulating the practice of dentistry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled 'an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882,' as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia in relation to disposition of proceedings before commission, fees, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 3, and section 9, chapter 3, of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled 'chapter 269, an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia (1887), in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled 'an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns,' approved May 20, 1903.'
An ACT empowering the special board of directors of the eastern State hospital at Williamsburg to sell certain lots now owned by said hospital, and reinvest the money in arable land.
An ACT to establish an epileptic colony on land of the Western State hospital, in Amherst county.

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1038 of an act entitled chapter 269, an act to amend and re-enact chapter 44 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to cities and towns, and to repeal sections 1039 and 1040 of the Code of Virginia, and section 1043 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, and as attempted to be repealed by an act approved March 7, 1900, and to repeal an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to provide for local assessments in cities and towns, approved May 20, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900.
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 subpenas 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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond as heretofore amended, in relation to the powers of the city council; and to amend and re-enact section 64 of the said charter in relation to the duties of the city engineer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act, approved February 28, 1898, entitled an act to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, approved February 27, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 3 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, and an act approved March 15, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 15, acts of assembly, 1906-7, entitled ‘an act to provide for the expense of removing, supporting and maintaining insane persons—how paid,” approved March 10, 1906.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT for the prevention of Tuberculosis.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, as amended by act of general assembly approved March 15, 1904, and sections 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 20 of an act entitled: An act to aid the citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war or by the infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines of Virginia who lost their lives in said service or whose death resulted from wounds received or disease contracted in said service, providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act as amended by previous acts and by subsequent acts and by the act approved March 10, 1906.
An ACT prescribing the punishment for abducting, kidnapping or unlawfully aiding in the escape of the inmates of any of the public hospitals of this State.
An ACT to create a fireman’s relief fund and to increase the efficiency of the fire departments in the cities, towns and counties of Virginia.
An ACT. to permit the directors of the Western State hospital to sell and dispose of a small tract of land belonging to said hospital.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1666 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled: An act to establish an epileptic colony on land of the Western State Hospital in Amherst county
An ACT to require owners and agents of peanut cleaning establish-ments and cotton factories to furnish employees or operatives with a suit-able sponge shield to protect such employee or operative from inhaling the dust or floating particles in the air, and fixing a penalty for failure so to do.
An ACT to prohibit the sale or giving away or otherwise dispensing cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, or any mixture of either, except on the prescription of a licensed physician, and prescribing a penalty therefor.
An ACT to require all eleemosynary institutions, hospitals, colleges, universities, prisons and reformatories to report monthly to the auditor of public accounts in detail the manner in which all funds received by said institutions from the Commonwealth are disbursed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 928 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending respectively on the 28th day of February, 1909, and the 28th day of February, 1910.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the composition, branding, possession, dispensing, and sale of drugs, poison and narcotics, and to repeal certain existing acts in relation thereto.

1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 1 and section 10 of chapter 2 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and the composition, branding, possession, dispensing and sale of drugs, poison and narcotics, and to repeal certain existing acts in relation thereto
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 7 of an act entitled an act providing for the appointment of a State board of health and of local boards, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers and agents in connection with the preservation of public health, and prosecuting 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 board or its duly authorized members, approved March 7, 1900, and as amended by an act approved February 27, 1904, and providing how county boards of health constituted and appointed, and when State board of health may perform duties of local boards
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Radford, and
An ACT to permit the boards of supervisors of counties and the councils of cities to provide help for destitute persons bitten by mad dogs.
An ACT providing funds to help maintain indigent consumptives
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto.
An ACT providing for the registration of pharmacists who own and operate drug stores and pharmacies in towns and cities of Virginia which are divided and separated from other towns or cities in adjoining States by the State line, and who are residents of Virginia, and lawfully registered as pharmacists, and who own and operate drug stores or pharmacies in the adjoining towns or cities of such adjoining States.
An ACT to empower the board of visitors of Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home to take into its possession the money and personal effects found tn said home belonging to any inmate thereof who has died intestate, and to dispose of the same where no claim is made therefor within one year by any person entitled thereto.
An ACT to regulate the conduct and equipment of hotels, to provide for the inspection thereof, and penalties for violation of the provisions hereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1767 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts of 1906, chapter 134, who may practice dentistry.
An ACT to prohibit the use of opium in the manufacture of cigarettes.
An ACT to require the reporting of cases of infectious, contagious, communicable and dangerous disease to boards of health.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 5, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1903, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming, to provide for the better protection of life and health, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, and to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead, etc.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1752 of the Code of Virginia regulating the practice of medicine and surgery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixteen hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the proceedings before a commission to ascertain insanity.
An ACT to permit rules for the government of jails and the reduction of sentences of prisoners therein confined to be prescribed by the circuit and corporation judges and the boards of supervisors and councils of the respective counties and cities of the State, and to provide for the enforcement of the same.
An ACT to direct the board of charities and corrections to ascertain the facts concerning the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic, in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of those engaged in placing destitute children in family homes.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years
An ACT to ratify and confirm a contract for the sale of a let
An ACT to define and classify industrial sick benefit companies
An ACT in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, mercantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements.
An ACT to require the reporting of cases of infectious, contagious, communicable and dangerous disease to boards of health.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act approved March 1, 1900, by act approved March 14, 1902, by act approved May 5, 1903, and by act approved March 14, 1908; and to repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the following acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100, 2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the waters of this Commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to prohibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fishing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903; an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tidewater, approved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crabbing grounds in the waters of the Commonwealth, approved February 3, 1900; an act entitled an act to provide for clam- ming grounds in the waters of this State, approved March 8, 1894.
An ACT to establish the Virginia State epileptic colony.
An ACT to organize county and city boards of poor commissioners, and requiring reports from said boards.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1660 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hospitals for the insane, so as to provide proper and separate custody of insane convicts and certain other insane persons.
An ACT to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same and to provide penalties for the violation of the provision of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1687 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the disposition of insane persons charged with crime, when restored to sanity, etc.
An ACT to authorize the State board of health to adopt, promul- gate and enforce rules and regulations for the betterment and protec- tion of the public health of the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act, as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1747 and 1750 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in the State of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by acts approved March 7, 1900, and April 23, 1903, amending and re-enacting section 1747 of the Code of Virginia, and by acts approved March 7, 1900, April 24, 1903, and December 17, 1903, amending and re-enacting section 1750 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the examination and testing of dairy cattle for controlling tuberculosis, and to appropriate money for expenses thereof.

1912
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 provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the State of Virginia, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits; to require prompt returns to the bureau of vital statistics at the capital of the State, as required to be established by the State board of health; to insure the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State; to provide certain penalties; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble minded and to provide for the commitment of feeble minded persons to such colony.
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 22d, 1894, and sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751 and 1752 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, and all amendments thereto.
An ACT to make an appropriation to provide for the relief of needy Confederate veterans who are not eligible to become inmates of the Soldiers’ home because of suffering with cancerous affection or contagious disease.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8&5 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 14 1908, relative to the duties and powers of the boards of supervisor of the several counties of the State, approved March 16, 1910.
An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of persons receiving, boarding and keeping children, not relatives; prescribing rules for placing out and for reports; penalty.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county and the town of Lexington, or either of them, to contribute such sum as in the judgment of the board of supervisors or the town council, may seem proper for the benefit of the Jackson Memorial Hospital in the town of Lexington, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled: “An act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force, January 21,1884, entitled ‘An act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882,’ as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887, April 28, 1887, May 14, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21, 1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.”
An ACT to permit the county of Rockingham, through its board of supervisors, to accept donations and trusts made for benevolent or charitable objects of a public character within its territorial limits, and to perform such conditions and execute such trusts as may be connected with the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1835, providing a charter for the town of Bridgewater, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1884, and as amended by an act approved August 26, 1884, and as further amended by an act approved February 16, 1901, and all other acts heretofore passed amendatory of said charter.
An ACT to prevent deception in the sale of ice cream and to establish standards for the same, defining condensed milk and providing for its sale.
An ACT to permit the directors of the Western State Hospital to sell and dispose of a right of way over a tract of land belonging to said hospital.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county," approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled '"an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March the 9th, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof," approved February the 29th, 1892, as further amended by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March 9, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof, approved February 29, 1892, and to add an independent section and power in the town council of said town to negotiate a loan not to exceed $5,000.00," approved March 5, 1896.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, affecting the control of its fire and health departments.
An ACT regulating policies insuring against accidental bodily injury or disease issued in this State, and the companies issuing
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact the act in effect February 17, 1900, regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases.
An ACT to continue and extend an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to direct the board of charities and corrections to ascertain the facts concerning the weak-minded, other than insane and epileptic in the State of Virginia, and also to direct the said board of charities and corrections to ascertain, investigate and report to the next general assembly of Virginia, as to the propriety of providing surgical aid and treatment to the deformed, crippled and disfigured persons of the commonwealth who are too poor to provide such treatment for themselves, and to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars for the purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 22, 1871, to incorporate the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to license and regulate the sale and inspection of condimental stock and poultry foods and powders intended for domestic animals and poultry,”

1914
An ACT to provide for the cleansing of cans and other receptacles used as containers of milk, cream and ice cream, and fixing penalties for violation of the act.
An ACT to make it obligatory upon persons, firms, or corporations employing men in foundries or moulding shops to provide for proper ventilation in such foundries or moulding shops.
An ACT making certain provisions in reference to the construction of factories, shops and manufacturing establishments, providing for the use of certain safety appliances therein and the protection of dangerous machinery therein; making provisions how factories, shops and manufacturing establishments shall be lighted, vesting in the commissioner of labor certain powers in reference thereto; and providing certain penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to provide for the immediate admission, without an order of commitment, into the State hospitals or other State institutions for the insane, or insane persons who are in urgent need of immediate treatment and care, or who are dangerously insane and a menace to the public safety, and for their subsequent commitment, and to provide for the conveyance of such patients to the hospital.