Industry
| An Act to repeal Chapter 8 of Title 45 of the Code of 1950, containing §§ 45-94 through 45-105, both inclusive, relating to oil and gas; and to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a Chapter 8.1 and forty-one sections numbered 45-106 through 45-146 to create a State Oil and Gas Board and provide for an Oil and Gas Inspector and prescribe their powers and duties |
| AN ACT to direct the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council to study certain statutes relating to the seafood industry; and to appropriate funds. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 63, as amended, of Chap 576 of the Acts of Assembly of 1895-6, approved March 8, 1896, relating to taration by the town of Harrisonburg, such chapter being the charter of Harrisonburg. |
| AN ACT to establish an engineering experiment station at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, to prescribe the functions and powers of the station and of the governing board of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in regard thereto; and to appropriate funds. |
| AN ACT to appropriate funds to the State Oil and Gas Board. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28-88 and 28-89 of the Code of Virginia, relating to collection of sums for licenses, rentals, and fines due Commission of Fisheries; and the venue for certain trials. |
| An Act to impose a tax on oysters taken from the public rocks; to provide for the administration of such tax; to prohibit certain acts and to provide penalties for violations; to provide for the disposition of the revenues; and to repeal certain acts. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 4 of Title 10 an article numbered 8 containing sections numbered 10-90.2 to 10-90.9, inclusive, establishing the responsibility of the Department of Conservation and Development, The Division of Forestry thereof, and the State Forester relating to control of certain insects and diseases attacking forest trees; providing for cooperation between certain persons and agencies in carrying out the purposes of the article; providing for appeals; establishing a special fund in the State treasury and directing the payment of certain moneys thereto; and appropriating funds. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 65-16 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of Industrial Commission of Virginia. |
| An Act to authorize and empower the Commission of Fisheries to grant to the Commonwealth Natural Gas Corporation a certain permanent easement of right of way under the waters of the James River between Isle of Wight and Warwick Counties. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46-884 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the weight of vehicles and loads. |
| An Act to provide for the creation of the Newport News Port and Industrial Authority; to provide for the composition, government, powers, duties and liabilities thereof and other matters pertaining thereto; and to provide for the issuance of certain bonds thereby, and the terms and conditions of such issuance. |
| An Act to create the Potomac River Oyster Commission; to provide for the appointment, terms, and compensation of the members thereof, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to authorize the Commission to adopt and enforce certain rules and regulations; to provide for certain hearings and appeals; to provide for licensing of the use of certain devices for the taking of oysters in the waters of the Potomac; to limit the use thereof; to authorize the Commission to close certain areas to the taking of oysters; to authorize the reshelling and reseeding of such areas, and to authorize the procedure therefor; to provide a season for the taking of oysters; to characterize certain acts as being in violation of certain laws; to provide for the culling of oysters; to levy and provide for the collection of taxes on certain oysters; to provide how such tax shall be enforced; to provide for the distribution of funds derived from certain taxes, fines, and penalties; to prohibit certain acts; to provide penalties for violations; to repeal certain acts; to provide for the effect of this act under certain conditions; and, to provide when the act shall take effect. |
| An Act to authorize and empower the State Highway Commissioner to convey on behalf of the Commonwealth certain minerals and mining rights underlying Highway No. 52, in Wythe County. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 65-9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appointment of the Industrial Commission, so as to require such appointments to be made by the General Assembly. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 8-524.1, relating to the attachment of ships, boats and vessels of more than twenty tons, and to amend and reenact § 8-526 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the issuance of attachments. |
| An Act to appropriate the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars to the J. H. Miles and Company, Incorporated, for all claims for damages which may occur as a result of the termination of the leasing of oyster beds from the construction, operation and maintenance of a disposal area for dredged material in Hampton Roads pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 472 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948. |
| An Act relating to the equipment of rail track motor cars used or furnished by common carriers by railroad for transporting employees; providing for the extension of necessary time in which to equip such cars; and penalizing those carriers who operate or furnish for operation such unequipped cars to their employees for transportation to or from their place or places of labor. |
| An Act to amend and re-enact § 46-336 of the Code of Virginia, relating to increase of maximum weights on certain highways. |
| An Act to authorize certain counties to exempt manufacturing establishments from local taxation under certain conditions. |
| An Act to provide for the creation of authorities to acquire and operate areas which are, or have been occupied by a United States military installation and which are, or appear likely to be subject to disposal by the United States Government; to provide for the composition, government, powers, duties and liabilities thereof and other matters pertaining thereto; and to provide for the issuance of certain bonds thereby, and the terms and conditions of such issuance. |
| An Act to authorize certain counties to exempt manufacturing establishments and works of internal improvement from local taxation. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 45-106, 45-108 through 45-122, 45-124, 45-126 through 45-181, 45-189 through 45-141, and 45-144 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal § 45-107 of the Code of Virginia, all relating to the mining of oil and gas so as to abolish the State Oil and Gas Board and transfer the rights, powers and duties thereof to the State Mine Inspector, the Division of Mines, and the Commissioner of Labor and Industry. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 33 an Article numbered 12, containing sections numbered 33-255.45 through 33-255.66 so as to facilitate the movement of vehicular traffic in the Commonwealth of Virginia by providing for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, improvement, management and operation of a turnpike project extending generally from the termination point of the West Virginia Turnpike on the Virginia-West Virginia line near Bluefield, Virginia, in a generally Southeasterly direction to the termination point of the proposed North Carolina Turnpike on the Virginia-North Carolina State line near Mt. Airy, North Carolina; creating a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to be known as “Old Dominion Turnpike Authority” and defining its powers and duties: granting to the authority power to acquire necessary real and personal property and to exercise the power of eminent domain; providing for financing the construction of such project by the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority, payable solely from tolls and other revenues; providing that no debt of the Commonwealth shall be incurred in the exercise of any such powers; providing for the collection of tolls and other revenues to pay such bonds and interest thereon and the cost of reconstruction, maintenance, repair, improvement, management and operation of such project; exempting from taxes and assessments such project and such bonds and the income therefrom; authorizing the issuance of revenue refunding bonds; and prescribing the powers and duties of the authority in connection with the foregoing and the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds issued under the provisions of this Act. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 144 (c) of Chapter 34, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which chapter provided a new charter for the city of Norfolk and which section relates to the powers and duties of the Norfolk Port Authority. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 10-127 of the Code of Virginia, relating to composition of the Advisory Council on the Virginia Economy. |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 59-128.1, relating to the purchase of coal.from a person engaged in the mining of coal, and to provide that violation thereof shall be a misdemeanor. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 8 thereof a new chapter numbered 28.1, consisting of sections numbered $8-646.1 through 8-646.17, inclusive, to regulate manufacture, sale and distributing of animal remedies; to impose certain duties and confer certain powers on the Commissioner of Agriculture; to provide for collection of certain fees; and to prescribe penalties for violations; and to repeal §§ 3-642 through 8-646, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, relating to condimental stock and poultry feeds. |
| An Act to provide for acquiring the Lee Experimental Forest in Buckingham County or the control and management thereof; to provide for the use and management thereof; to authorize the Governor to transfer control thereof to other State agencies; and to appropriate funds |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 9 of Title 15 anew article numbered 5, containing new sections numbered 15-281.4:1 through 15-281.4:78, to provide a general charter for the consolidation of two or more political subdivisions; to provide, under certain conditions, for the holding of a referendum to determine whether the same shall be adopted; to provide, under certain conditions, for a referendum to adopt the name of a consolidated city; and to provide the effect of such charter if adopted. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 58-896.1, to impose a license tax upon certain suppliers of certain forest products. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 62-11, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to definitions under the State Water Control Law. |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46-44.1, relating to the temporary registration for transportation of mobile homes or house trailers which exceed the size permitted by law for such vehicles. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 58-838.5:1 to require annual registration of certain persons subject to the forest products tax; to provide for a registration fee and disposition of the same. |
| AN ACT to provide for the creation from funds available to the State Highway Commission of a revolving fund for the construction of certain access roads; to authorize the expenditure of such funds and to provide how such access roads shall be maintained. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 10-114 of the Code of Virginia, providing for the appointment of a Water Resources Committee, its composition, powers, duties, compensation and expenses. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 10-1, 10-8, as amended, 10-5, 10-6, 10-8.1, 10-12, 10-18, 10-14, 10-118, 10-119, 10-120, 10-128 and 10-130 of the Code of Virginia, relating generally to the Department of Conservation and Development and Divisions thereof, and to the Advisory Council on the Virginia Economy, so as to change the title of the Board, Director and Department of Conservation and Development, to terminate the terms of the members of the Board, and to reduce the number of members of the Board, to provide for certain divisions within the Department, to impose certain duties and functions upon the Board, to impose duties upon the Director of the Department, and to provide for the duties of the Division of Industrial Development; and to repeal § 10-121 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Advisory Committee on Planning and Economic Development. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28-95 and 28-172.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulations promulgated by the Commission of Fisheries. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 28-158, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to dredging oyster planting grounds. |
| AN ACT to repeal §§ 3-189 through 8-141, and 3-143 through 3-150, of the Code of Virginia, relating to production and sale of lime, marl and ground oyster shells by the Board of Agriculture and Immigration; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 8-139.1 through 3-139.5, to provide what lime grinding plants, and farms connected therewith, shall be operated by the Board of Agriculture and Immigration, to provide for working convicts in the production of lime grinding and farm operations in connection therewith, to fix the standards applicable to lime so produced, to provide for the sale of such lime and farm products, and to fix the cost of such lime and farm products. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-3838.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the assessment and manner of collecting liquidated damages for violation of weight limits. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 144 (c) of Chapter 34, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which chapter provided a new charter for the city of Norfolk, and which section relates to the powers and duties of the Norfolk Port Authority. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 11 of Title 23 a new article numbered 2.2, containing sections numbered 28-185.8 through 28-185.11, so as to establish a technical institution in the city of Roanoke under the supervision of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in cooperation with the State Board of Education; to prescribe the terms and conditions incident to the establishment of such technical institution. |
| An Act authorizing and empowering the Governor to convey, subject to certain terms and conditions, submerged lands in Hampton Roads to the city of Newport News. |
| AN ACT to prohibit, insofar as the State is authorized to do, the dredging of the James River or the disposal of waste materials in connection therewith, that would interfere with or damage the oyster bottoms, public or private in the James River, between certain points thereon, without the recommendation of the Commission of Fisheries, and the approval of the Governor. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 45 a chapter numbered 1.1, which chapter contains sections numbered 45-17.1 through 45-17.4, requiring a license to operate any commercial mine; providing fees for such license; and providing penalties for violations of the provisions of the chapter. |
| AN ACT to appropriate funds to reopen and operate State Lime Grinding Plant No. 2 in the county of Appomattox; and to prescribe conditions for the expenditure thereof. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 54-17 of the Code of Virginia, relating to definitions of architects, professional engineers and surveyors. |
| An Act to authorize the Virginia State Hospital Board to negotiate with the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company in regard to the conveyance of certain real estate now owned by the State Hospital Board and to authorize the State Hospital Board to convey the same real estate. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 10-76 as amended, 10-76.1 and 10-77, 10-81 and 10-88, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the leaving of uncut trees for seeding purposes and to the effect of forestry planting, cutting and management plans. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 38.1-659 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the definition of “mutual assessment fire insurance” and broadening the same to include § 88.1-7 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An Act to create a political subdivision within Bath County, to be known as the Airport District of Bath County, with the powers conferred upon cities and counties by Articles 1 and 2, Chapter 8 of Title 5 of the Code of Virginia; to authorize the governing body of such county to issue bonds of such district, subject to a referendum, for the acquisition and construction of an airport and to levy taxes for their payment; and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to transfer to such district all funds donated to the county for the acquisition and construction of an airport; and to declare an emergency exists. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 18 of the Acts of Assembly of Extra Session, 1959, approved February 4, 1959, which authorized certain counties and towns to expend general funds to provide sources of public water supply. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 6-51, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to investments of banks. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 21-10, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers and duties of the State Soil Conservation Committee. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia relating to charges for planning services and funds granted to the Department of Conservation and Economic Development. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 65-14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of deputies to the Industrial Commission of Virginia, to define their powers, and delete the provisions that testimony be transmitted to the Commission. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-843, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to permits for excessive size and weight relative to concrete mixers. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 10-8.1 and 10-138, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Division of Industrial Development and Planning in the Department of Conservation and Economic Development, and to repeal §§ 10-118, 10-119 and 10-120, relating to the Division of Industrial Development and Planning. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 2-34 of the Code of Virginia, so as to establish in the Governor’s office the Division of Industrial Development and Planning and to amend Title 2 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto Chapter 6.1, consisting of § 2-57.1, relating to the Division of Industrial Development and Planning. |
| An Act to provide for the entry of the Commonwealth of Virginia into the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact; to provide for the selection and term of office of Virginia’s representative on the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board; to limit the effect of certain agreements under the Compact; to provide for cooperation with the Board by agencies of this State; and to make an appropriation. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 1, as amended, of Chapter 18 of the Acts of Assembly of Extra Session, 1959, relating to expenditures by counties and towns to provide sources of public water supply. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 38-186.1 of the Code of Virginia relating to the revolving fund for access roads to industrial sites. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 15-12 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appropriations for advertising and giving publicity to counties by their boards of supervisors. |
| An Act to create a political subdivision within the city of Norton; to provide for the composition, powers, duties and liabilities thereof and other matters pertaining thereto; to provide for the issuance of certain bonds; and to prescribe the terms and conditions governing the issuance of such bonds. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 58-12, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to what property, real and personal, is exempt from taxation, State and local. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 58-413,as amended, of the Code of Virginia, exempting certain businesses and professions from @ tax on capital, so as to exempt industrial development corporations. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-147 of the Code of Virginia, relating to membership in industrial development corporations and loans to such corporations by its members. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 56-419.1, relating to sheds for employees engaged in car construction work. |
| An Act to protect the public health insofar as protection from ionizing radiation is concerned; and to vest in the State Board of Health and the State Health Commissioner powers to regulate the receipt, storage and use of materials and substances emitting such radiation naturally or otherwise; to regulate the use of devices utilizing such materials or substances: to create a Radiation Advisory Board and to provide for the powers and duties thereof, and the appointment, terms and compensation of the members; to authorize entry upon private property for certain purposes; to authorize the promulgation of rules and regulations; to require the keeping of certain records; and to provide for issuances of licenses; to provide for agreements with the federal government and its agencies and with other states; to authorize injunctions; to prohibit certain acts and provide penalties for violations; to provide for judicial review; and to repeal §§ $2-411 through 82-414 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain of the same matters. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 33-186.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the revolving fund for access roads to industrial sites. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 55-154, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to presumption of absence of minerals, coals, oils and other substances under certain lands. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 36-19.2, relating to the powers of housing authorities to purchase or lease land for certain redevelopment projects. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46.1-278 and 46.1-280, as amended, of the Code of Virginia and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.1-278.1, the amended and new sections relating to the specifications and performance ability of brakes and other holding equipment to be used on certain motor vehicles and combinations thereof; and to repeal § 46.4-279, relating to the same subject matters. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 56 a new section numbered 56-405.1 relating to agreements for the maintenance and repair of railroad grade crossings. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-842 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to liquidated damages for violation of weight limits, powers of enforcement officers and forfeiture of vehicle and cargo. |
| An Act to create a Commission to study the safety of combinations of three vehicles not exceeding 65 feet in length, and the economic effects on the industry, agriculture, communities and ports of the Commonwealth to be derived from the use thereof; and to provide for the issuance of a special permit to aid the study. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15.1-1874, 15.1-1879 and 15.1-1882 of the Code of Virginia, relating to industrial development authorities, bonds issued thereby, and rents, fees and other charges to be paid by such authorities to the political subdivisions with respect to which they were created. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 28.1-28 of the Code of Virginia, relating to authority of the Commission of Fisheries to make regulations. |
| An ACT to authorize the York River Railroad Company to borrow Money. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon Company. |
| An ACT incorporating the Bath Tron Mining and Manufacturing Company in the Counties of Bath and Alleghany |
| An ACT to revise and amend the Charter of the Glendower Mining Company |
| An ACT to protect the Titerests of the Commonwealth, aud other Stockholders in Railroads between Weldon and Baltimore, trom reckless and injurious Compecton |
| An ACT to incorporate the Industrial Mining and Manufacturing Company. |
| An ACT to amend the Charter of the Midlothian Coal Mining Company |
| An ACT disposing of the State's Interest in the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad. on certain conditions, |
| An ACT to incorporate the Industrial Mining and Manutae- |
| An ACT to incorporate the Union Manuracturing Company of the County of Fluvauna |
| An ACT extending the Time for Rebuilding or Repairing any Mills, Manufactory, Machine or Engine destroyed by Fire, or which may have become unfit for use during the late Civil War. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Whitehall Mining and Manufacturing Company. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Rockbridge Manuwacturing Company. |
| An ACT abolishing the Lispection of Lime |
| An ACT to incorporate the Valley Mining, Exploring and Manufacturing Company |
| An ACT to incorporate the Union Car Works Manufacturing Company |
| An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Industrial Association |
| An ACT to amend the Sa section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chesterfield Gas-coal Mining Company. |
| An ACT relating to the Manchester Cotton and Wool Manufacturing Company, and extending the duration of the Charter of the Bae |
| An ACT incorporating the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, and the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Connection Company. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Tomahawk Coal Mining Company |
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