Incorporation

1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3846 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Banister, in the county of Halifax, approved March 16, 1887, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide a new’charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the Provisions of
An ACT to amend sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, and 103 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, and to repeal sections 2 and 93 of said act and to add thereto sections 14a, 55a, 99a, 116a, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132, which deal with and provide for vacancies in the council; the initiative and referendum; the general powers and duties of the department of public welfare; the division of the city into school districts and the election of trustees therefor; the creation of a civil service commission and its rules and regulations; the jurisdiction of courts to enforce ordinances; rules and regulations upon city owned property outside of the city; continuance of present officers in office until January 1, 1921, and the vacating of certain offices at that time; the penalties for violation of certain sections; the working of prisoners; the appointment of boards and the creation of pension funds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fairfax, in the county of Fairfax
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3857 of the Code of Virginia.

1922
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2881 and 2882 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the incorporation of towns by the circuit courts of this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3879 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Glade Spring, in the county of Washington
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4145 and 4146 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3873 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3777 of the Code of Virginia.

1923es
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one (i), eight (8) and nine (9) of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Dublin, in Pulaski county, Virginia, approved March 14, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled "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," approved March 12, 1912.

1924
An ACT to make uniform the law of transfer of shares of stock in corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act ‘to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30; 1875, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, approved July 9, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 7, 1894.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Coeburn, in Wise county, Virginia, approved February 23, 1894, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Keysville, in the county of Charlotte
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia; and to define the boundaries of the said town of Virginia Beach, as set forth in the said act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, and in an order of the circuit court of Princess Anne county, Virginia, entered on the 28th day of May, 1923.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cambria, in Montgomery county, approved Me's 10 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Gladeville, in Wise county, approved February 24, 1874, as heretofore amended, the name of which town being subsequently changed to Wise; and to provide a charter for the town of Wise.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3879 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922, which section is in chapter 151 of the said Code on the subject of the creation of non-stock saad errs
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk

1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia, approved March 24, 1874, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanley in Page county, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight, approved March 15, 1902, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3875 of the Code of Virginia in relation to non-stock corporations, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision 5 of an act to provide for the issuance of shares of capital stock of corporations organized under the laws of this State without nominal or par value, and for the domestication under the laws of this State of foreign corporations, all or any class of the shares of stock of which are without nominal or par value
An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Richlands, Virginia, to grant to any person, firm or chartered company, engaged in mining, manufacturing or merchandising, a right of way for the construction, operation and maintenance of a tramway or railway, across, upon or along any of the avenues or streets of said town, subject to such regulations as the said town council may prescribe.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Elkton, in Rockingham county, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Lebanon, in Russell county, in force February 21, 1873, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1890, and as further amended by an act approved February 8, 1898
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1924, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia; and to define the boundaries of the said town of Virginia Beach.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3851 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in relation to corporations.
An ACT to authorize incorporated towns to acquire land or quarry rights in land and to quarry stone and manufacture crushed stone.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Norton, in Wise county, approved February 15, 1894, as heretofore amended, by the addition thereto of a new section, to be numbered 3-a, in relation to the salary of the mayor of the said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 6 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3792 of the Code of Virginia in relation to corporations and the creation of stock, etc.; the increase or decrease of the same, the creation of preferred stock, the redemption thereof, and dividends thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Hillsville
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide with certain conditions and restrictions, a site on a portion of the land in the western section of the city of Richmond known as the Soldiers’ Home property, for the establishment and conduct thereon by the Home for Needy Confederate Women, a corporation existing under the laws of Virginia, of a home for the needy widows, wives, sisters and daughters of Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines, such home to be a memorial to the women of the Southern Confederacy, approved January 28, 1926.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 8 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3224 of the Code of Virginia in relation to oyster grounds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3847 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended by an act approved March 20, 1920, relating to corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Brookneal, in the county of Campbell, approved February 20, 1908, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, in Louisa county, approved March 8, 1873, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11, chapter 6, of an act incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Belle Haven, in Accomac county, approved December 14, 1895, as heretofore amended.

1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 273 of the acts of 1874, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the town of Potomac, in Arlington county, the question of annulling the charter of said town by repealing an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Potomac, in the county of Alexandria; and to annul and repeal said charter upon a majority vote declaring against said charter, and for the assumption of all the obligations of the town of Potomac, by Jefferson magisterial district of said county.
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 3780, as heretofore amended, section 3792, as heretofore amended, section 3793, section 3797 and section 3850, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia in relation to corpora- tions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3879 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924, which section is in chapter 151 of the said Code on the subject of the creation of non-stock corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 12, 1904, entitled an act to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Damascus, Virginia.

1930
An ACT to permit and authorize mutual building and loan associations to organize a jointly owned corporation for the purpose of promoting the welfare of said associations.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Glen Lyn.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach and to define its boundaries, provide for a town school board, and to levy taxes for school establishment and maintenance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3810 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, in relation to dissolution of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3781, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to corporations.

1932
An ACT to provide the method of amending the charters of corporations chartered for the purpose of and engaged in conducting hospitals, the stock of which is nondividend paying, when the corporation is unable to convene a meeting of its stockholders.

1933es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the Virginia building and loan association act, approved March 5, 1932. [S. B. 9]
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Independence, in Grayson county”
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the town of Independence, in the county of Grayson'
An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Shenandoah Valley Academy, of Winchester, Virginia, to contract a debt and to secure the payment of the same by deed of trust on real estate held by said trustees.

1934
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 151 thereof a new section numbered 3879-a, authorizing members of non-stock corporations created under the provisions of chapter 151 of the Code of Virginia, to hold meetings for the transaction of business of such corporations without the State of Virginia, and to declare all actions heretofore and hereafter taken at such meetings as valid and binding as if such meetings had been held in Virginia.
An ACT to require the dissolution and forfeiture of charters to be certified by the State Corporation Commission and clerks, to the clerks of the courts in whose offices such charters are recorded, and to require clerks of courts to note the dissolution and forfeiture of charters on the margin of the
An ACT to incorporate the town of Independence, in the county of Grayson.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Staunton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the incorporation, establishment and operation of loan and savings institutions known as “credit unions,” approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amending charters and changing location of the principal offices, of corporations.

1936
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Waterford, in Loudoun county, approved March 11, 1875, and all amendments thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3780 and 3792 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to amendments of charters of corporations after organization, and powers to create two or more kinds of stock of corporations, and increase or decrease the stock and providing for redemption of stock or dividends thereon.
An ACT to repeal section 17 of an act 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,” approved February 21, 1920, which said section was added to said act by chapter 46 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, which is an act approved February 23, 1934; and to provide that such repeal shall not affect any corporation heretofore chartered and now doing business under and by virtue of the authority conferred by the provisions of said section.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 159 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1928, which chapter is an act to provide for a general road law applicable in all the counties of the Commonwealth, the section here amended being in relation to the duty of the owner or occupier of a dam to maintain road or bridge thereon; providing for the right of inspection of same by the State Highway Commission; costs of replacing and upkeep.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amending charters and changing location of principal officers of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3811 of the Code of Virginia relating to revival of dissolved corporations, and to amend and re-enact section 3812 of the Code of Virginia relating to the settlement of the affairs of a corporation after dissolution.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Haysi, in Dickenson County, Virginia.

1936/1937es
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to authorize the trustees of the Shenandoah Valley Academy, of Winchester, Virginia, to contract a debt and to secure the payment of the same by deed of trust on real estate held by said trustees,’ approved September 13, 1933, so as to authorize the trustees of the Shenandoah Valley Academy, of Winchester, Virginia, to contract debts and to secure the payment of the same.
An ACT to provide a charter for the town of Upperville, in Fauquier county, Virginia.

1938
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Nicholsville, in the county of Scott”, approved April 2, 1902, so as to change the name of said town from Nicholsville to Nickelsville, and to change the term of office of the mayor and councilmen from one year to four years.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amendment of charters of corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to powers of corporations.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Cape Charles, Northampton county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Cape Charles.

1940
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3875-a, authorizing any stock corporation organized to operate an educational institution to amend its charter so as to become a corporation not organized for profit and without capital stock.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to incorporate the town of Louisa, in Louisa county.’’
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Holland, in the county of Nansemond, and to repeal the charter provided for said town by chapter 1047 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1899-1900, approved March 7, 1900, and all amendments thereof, or of any part thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Glade Spring, in the county of Washington.”

1942
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 213 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to necessity for payment, by corporations, of certain taxes, fees and dues, assessed by the State Corporation Commission, as prerequisite to taking certain steps before, and securing certain actions by, the Commission, and relating to relief therefrom under certain circumstances; so as to except, from necessity of such prepayment, corporations whose incorporators make voluntary surrender of corporate rights and franchises.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3875, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedure for amendment of charter of a non-stock corporation, so as to provide for amendment changing principal office without vote of members having voting powers ; to conform the section to certain changes made in other, or by previous, legislation; to make certain formal changes ; and to provide for recordation of amendments as in case of stock corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 4, 4-a and 8 of Chapter 335 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, and known, designated and cited as the “Sanitation Districts Law of nineteen hundred and thirty-eight” in relation to the establishment of sanitation districts and the creation thereof as bodies corporate and politic styled as sanitation district commissions, to withdrawals therefrom, and with regard to the corporate powers and duties of such sanitation district commissions. and the management and control thereof, and the exemptions from taxation appertaining thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3850 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to what certificates of incorporation of corporations, other than public service corporations, to set forth, so as to require maximum amount of each class of stock to be stated.

1944
An ACT to provide a new Charter for the Town of McKenney, in the County of Dinwiddie, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT requiring certain corporations and companies of other states to appoint the Secretary of the Commonwealth its attorney for certain purposes, to provide that transacting certain business or soliciting, making or delivering certain contracts in Virginia shall be deemed to be an appointment oi the Secretary of the Commonwealth as attorney for certain purposes, and to prescribe the duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth when notice or process is served upon him in such cases and the effect of such service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4, as amended, of Chapter 335 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the “Sanitation Districts Law of nineteen hundred thirty-eight”, relating to the incorporation of sanitation districts and the creation of sanitation district commissions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3821 and 3874 of the Code of Virginia so as to authorize the merger or consolidation of certain non-stock corporations, to prescribe the manner in which such merger or consolidation may be effected, and the rights, obligations, duties and powers of such merged or consolidated corporations, and to increase the amount of real estate which may be held by non-stock corporations operating as educational institutions.

1946
An ACT to provide for the creation and incorporation of the City of Arlington; to provide a charter and form of government therefor; to prescribe its confines; to transfer certain powers, rights, duties, obligations, property and other matters; to provide how the foregoing may be accomplished; to continue certain ordinances, and acts, and preserve certain rights, and repeal certain acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3847 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to corporations.

1948
An ACT to provide a charter for and incorporate the town of Portlock; to authorize the taking of a census and the effect thereof.