Law Enforcement

1962
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia relating to obtaining goods, property or services by false or fraudulent means, and providing penalties therefor.
An Act to amend and reenact § 1, as amended, of Chapter 230 of the Acts of Assembly of 1958, approved March 7, 1958, providing for establishment of a special police force in certain counties.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia providing for the authority of certain officers to act beyond their territorial limits for the protection of municipal properties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 17-30.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to recording evidence and incidents of trial and costs thereof, and costs of transcripts; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 17-30.2, providing for payment of expenses of appeals of indigent defendants.
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-89 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the offense of entering dwelling houses with the intent to commit larceny.
An Act to amend and reenact § 14-86, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for sheriffs of counties and sergeants of cities and their deputies.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 46.1-428.1 and 46.1-428.2, providing, respectively, for additional penalties for fourth and subsequent convictions of certain offenses or combinations thereof, and for revocation of operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses for additional periods therefor.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14-86 and 14-95, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to factors to be considered in fixing salaries of sheriffs and sergeants, and the effect of same in certain cities.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 54-445.1, relating to the obtaining of dangerous drugs by certain means
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 54-446.2, to provide for the admission in evidence of the certificate of the Chief Medical Examiner or an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner in certain prosecutions.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-267, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to warning lights on certain emergency vehicles.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 18.1-58, 46.1-16, 46.1-62, 46.1-177, 46.1-192, 46.1-805, 46.1-850 and 46.1-851 as amended, and 46.1-898 and 46.1-495, of the Code of Virginia, relating to penalties for violating certain motor vehicle laws, so as to revise the minimum penalties therefor.
An Act to amend and reenact § 51-186, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to retirement for disability of members of the State Police.
An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to rewards for arrest of persons charged with certain offenses.
An Act to authorize the Board of Medical Examiners for the State of Virginia to employ special investigators and other agents
An Act for the relief of Henry N. Harmon.
An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-84 of the Code of Virginia, providing for issuance of search warrants in certain cases.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 53-266, 53-268, 58-271, 58-272 as amended, 58-278, and 53-279 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code by adding thereto two sections numbered 53-266.1 and 53-278.5 relating to the Virginia Parole Board, probation and parole officers, salaries, chief probation officer, suspension of sentence and placing on probation, powers and duties of probation officers, appointment, arrest of probationer without warrant, duties of Virginia Parole Board.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 8-289.2, to provide a privilege for communications between ministers of religion and certain persons whom they counsel or advise.
An Act to Provide a Charter for the Town of Onancock, in Accomack County, and to Repeal Chapter 127 of the Acts of Assembly of 1881-82
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-227, 8-422.1, 8-460, 8-461, 55-280 and 55-287 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when and by whom distress made; trial of claim of third party to property distrained or levied on; sale of distrained property; how record of judgment kept, endorsement of execution; costs; and return of distress warrants and process of sale thereunder.
An Act to amend and reenact § 2, as amended, of Chapter 1 of Chapter 198 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved March 14, 1950, which provided a new charter for the City of Martinsville, the section relating to powers of the city.
An Act to provide a new charter for the City of Fairfax
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15-504 and 15-508, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to interest of certain officials in contracts with or claims against counties, cities and towns.
An Act to except and exclude from the provisions of §§ 15-504 and 15-508 of the Code, personnel employed to perform services under the provisions of Chapter 3, Title 44 of the Code pertaining to civil defense.
An Act to amend Chapter 552 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 7, 1950, which provided a new charter for the Town of Pound, by adding in Chapter V, a new section numbered 2, relating to a special justice.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 29-2.1, 29-14, 29-84, 29-55, 29-57, 29-77, 29-116, 29-131, 29-1382, 29-1388, 29-140, 29-140.1, 29-142, 29-143, 29-148, 29-149, 29-158, 29-161, 29-162, 29-163, 29-163.1, 29-164, 29-165, 29-165.1, 29-166, 29-167, 29-169, 29-172, 29-175 and 29-176, as severally amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating generally to regulation of hunting, fishing and trapping, enforcement thereof and penalties for violations.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14-182, as amended, and 19.1-887 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees in criminal cases.
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-184.8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to enforcement of dog laws in certain counties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 3, as amended, of Chapter 194 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 27, 1984, which provided anew charter for the town of Lawrenceville, so as to provide for the levy of certain tazes.
An Act to amend Chapter 412 of the Acts of Assembly of 1887-1888, approved March 5, 1888, as amended, which provided a charter for the town of Gate City, formerly Estillville, in Scott County, by adding a section numbered 2.2, providing certain powers.
Act to amend and reenact § 8-373, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to courts in which judgment dockets are to be kept and what such dockets shall contain.
An Act to effectuate the consolidation of Princess Anne County and the city of Virginia Beach, a city of the second class, into the city of Virginia Beach, a city of the first class; and to this end to validate, ratify and confirm the consolidation agreement between Princess Anne County and the city of Virginia Beach; to provide a charter for the new city of Virginia Beach, and to repeal Chapter 38 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, approved February 14, 1952, which incorporated the city of Virginia Beach, and all amendments thereto.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-562 of the Code of Virginia, relating to special policemen appointed by circuit courts.
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-184.2, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the enforcement of dog laws in counties by dog wardens and providing for license taxes and disposition thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact § 14-86, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to factors to be considered in fixing salaries of sheriffs and sergeants.
An Act to amend Title 5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, by adding sections numbered 5-10.6 and 5-10.7, relating, respectively, to the release on summons of certain persons arrested for misdemeanor upon promise to appear and to other cases in which the arresting officer may take such person before a judicial officer in lieu of issuing such summons.
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-421 of the Code of Virginia, relating to advocacy of change in government by unlawful means.
An Act to authorize certain counties to have a police department, and to provide how such police department may be administered and maintained.
An Act to amend and reenact § 51-184, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the retirement of State Police Officers.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-248 of the Code of Virginia, relating to stopping on highways.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 80-42, 30-44, and 30-45 of the Code of Virginia, creating the Committee on Offenses Against the Administration of Justice.
An Act to amend and reenact Chapter 669 of the Acts of Assembly 1956, approved March 81, 1956, which was codified as (b) of § 15-9.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to employment of assistants to the Commonwealth’s Attorneys in certain counties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 82, as amended, of an act entitled “An Act to amend and reenact the charter of the town of Culpeper’
An Act to amend and reenact § 53-293, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to penalties prescribed for offenses committed by convicts.
An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-262 of the Code of Virginia, relating to attendance of witnesses.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.1-288.2, providing a penalty for causing a telephone to ring with intent to annoy and without intent to converse; requiring telephone companies to identify the equipment so used and to furnish information, and to provide for publication of the section in telephone directories.
An Act Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia

1964
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.1-16.1, to provide for the establishment of traffic schools, and to permit the requiring of attendance of such schools by persons convicted of certain offenses in lieu of or in addition to penalties prescribed by law for certain offenses.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-428.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to penalty for repeated convictions of certain criminal offenses.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of Chapter 160 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 11, 1946, which was continued in effect by § 15.1-156 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers, duties and requirements of members of police forces in certain counties.
An Act to direct the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council to make a study of the State Police Retirement System, and to provide for the payment of certain costs in connection therewith.
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-237 of the Code of Virginia, relating to profane swearing and drunkenness.
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-489 of the Code of Virginia, relating to limitations of appeals, writ of error or supersedeas.
An Act to amend and reenact § 37-15 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conservators of the peace in hospitals or colonies.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2.04, 4.08, 6.07, 7.05, 9.11, 9.12, 10.02, 13.03, 14.03 and 15.10, as severally amended, of Chapter 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, as amended, which Chapter provided the charter for the city of Alexandria, the sections relating to powers of the City Board of Review of real estate assessments, appropriation and tax ordinances, form of bonds, duties of city planning commission concerning zoning, powers of council in relation to zoning, vacancies on council, alternative condemnation procedures, powers and duties of city collector, and school board; and to further amend Chap 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, by adding a section numbered 5.28 providing for a deputy city treasurer.
An Act to amend and reenact § 6 of Chapter 356 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, which provided a new charter for the town of Grottoes in the county of Rockingham, the section relating to the mayor.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 19.1-29.1 relating to the Governor’s authority to appoint conservators of the peace in State parks.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 14 of Title 8 of the Code of Virginia an Article, numbered 1.1, consisting of sections numbered 3-239.1 through 3-289.11, creating the Virginia Dark-Fired Tobacco Commission; prescribing its powers, duties and functions; to provide for the collection of certain taxes and disposition of the funds produced thereby; and prescribing penalties for violation of the Article.
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-805 of the Code of Virginia, relating to how depositions of nonresident witnesses may be taken.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 4.10, 4.16, 7.06 and 10.04 of Chapter 116 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1948, providing a charter for the City of Richmond, and §§ 4.01, 5-1.4, 6.19, 12.07 and 19.22 of said chapter as subsequently amended, 'relating to procedure for passing ordinances, including ordinances authorizing bond issues; power of investigation; restrictions on actions for damages against the city; salaries and allowances for members of the council; competitive bidding for purchases of and contracts for supplies, materials and equipment and construction of capital improvement projects; and quarters for and sessions of municipal courts; and to add a section to said chapter relating to the use of buildings or structures acquired or constructed for municipal purposes, numbered 2.08.2.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to assistant Commonwealth’s attorneys.
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-119.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to obtaining goods, property or services by fraudulent use of credit cards or other false and fraudulent means, and providing penalties therefor.
An Act to provide a new charter for the town of Blacksburg in the county of Montgomery, and to repeal certain Acts of Assembly, including all former charters and amendments thereto for the said town.
An Act to amend and reenact § 40-20.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adoption of rules and regulations concerning explosives by Safety Codes Commission, and effect thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-184.2, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to enforcement of dog laws in certain counties, appointment and salary of dog wardens and license tax rates and disposition thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-269 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, to exclude officers and guards of the penitentiary or other institutions or camps of the State corrections system from the prohibition against carrying concealed weapons.
An Act to amend and reenact § 43-4.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the recordation and indexing of certain documents.
An Act to amend and reenact § 59-216 of the Code of Virginia, relating to penalties for violations in the sale and use of fireworks.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-152 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction, authority and evidence of office of special policemen in counties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 56-200 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the enforcement of air carrier laws.
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-2388 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of certain language over telephone and penalty therefor.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-199 of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemptions to speed limitations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 7-A of Chapter 693 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, known both as the “Chesapeake Bay Ferry Revenue Bond Act’ and as the “Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Revenue Bond Act,” the section relating to the police powers of the Chesapeake Bay Ferry Commission, now known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission, the jurisdiction and trial of certain cases, and the dis- position of fines collected therefrom.
An Act to authorize certain counties to regulate private detectives by requiring investigations of moral character of applicants for licenses, providing for the issuance of licenses, providing for the fixing of certain fees, and providing penalties for violations of certain ordinances.
An Act to express the public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia as to the acceptance of rewards by sheriffs or other officers; and to authorize such officers to receive such rewards.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding a section numbered 8-825.1, so as to authorize sheriffs, city sergeants and constables in counties and cities under certain circumstances to store and sell personal property removed from premises pursuant to certain actions, and to provide for the disposition of the proceeds derived from such sale.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-184 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain traffic signals.
An Act to authorize the council of certain cities to establish an auxiliary police force, and to prescribe the service and jurisdiction of such policemen.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.1-883.1, so as to provide when certain persons shall submit to an examination to determine their fitness in operating a motor vehicle.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.1-192.1, relating to persons disregarding signal to stop by police officers; providing penalties.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 51-111.56, and 51-111.57, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating, respectively, to disability retirement and disability retirement allowance under the Virginia Supplemental Retirement Act.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 46.1-851.1 and 46.1-851.2, so as to provide when certain motor vehicles owned by certain persons shall become contraband; and how such motor vehicles shall be disposed of.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ $7-1.1, 87-61, 87-61.1, 87-62, 87-62.1, 87-68, 87-64, 87-69, 87-728, 37-75, 37-78, 37-79, 87-99, 87-100, 87-102, 37-108, 87-105 through 37-109, 87-111, 87-118 through 837-117, 87-119, 87-126, 87-128, 37-180, 37-181, and 87-186.1 of the Code of Virginia, as severally amended, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 87-71.2, 37-71.8, 87-180.1, and 87-280.2, the amended and new sections relating to the commitment or admission of persons to public and private institutions for the care and treatment of mentally all and mentally deficient persons, care and treatment of patients in such institutions, and release from such institutions; and to repeal §§ 87-6, 87-110, $7-110.1, 87-118, 37-154, 87-156 through $7-168, 87-171 through 87-187, 37-189, 37-190, 37-198 through 37-209, 37-212, 87-214 through 37-215.1, 37-217 through 37-222, 87-224 and 87-225, as severally amended, relating to the same matters.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46.1-850 and 46.1-378 of the Code of Virginia, relating to driving while license suspended or revoked, and operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 46.1-171.1 and 46.1-888.2, to authorize the State Highway Commission to prohibit certain uses of the Interstate highways, and to require release for publication, under certain conditions, of names of persons whose licenses have been suspended or revoked.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 89 a section numbered 39-7, prohibiting certain persons from holding the office of justice of the peace.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14-181, as amended, and 17-80.2 of the Code of Virginia, which relate to compensation of attorneys and other expenses in trials and appeals in which certain defendants are involved.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 18.1-57 and 18.1-59 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 18.1-55.1, the new and amended sections relating to consent for the taking of blood samples of persons arrested for operating motor vehicles while under the influence of intoxicants or drugs; how such consent shall be implied; procedure for taking and testing blood samples for alcoholic content; consequence of refusal to consent; suspension of driving privileges and licenses by the court for failure to consent; administration of test; costs; admissibility in evidence of results of analysis; evidentiary effect of test; terms of suspension of such privileges and licenses under certain circumstances; and to repeal §§ 18.1-55 and 18.1-56 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subjects.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-44 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers and duties of clerks of county courts.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 62-174.5, 62-174.6 and 68-174.7 as amended, 62-174.15, 62-174.17, 62-174.18 as amended, and 62-195 of the Code of Virginia and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 62-174.5:1 and 62-174.18:2, relating to, registering and numbering of motorboats, rules and regulations of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, enforcement of boating act, punishment for violation of the boating act, designating areas as swimming and bathing areas and limitations on the use of motor-boats; and to repeal §§ 62-192 as amended, and 62-198, relating to certain of the same matters.
An Act to provide for the issuance of citations on arrest for certain offenses in lieu of requiring posting of bond or collateral for appearance for trial to persons who are residents of or licensed by certain states which confer the same privileges on residents of this State; and to provide for suspension of the operator’s or chauffeur’s license of a Virginia resident for noncompliance with a similar citation issued by such a state to a person licensed in Virginia.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15.1-1385 and 15.1-186 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the taking of fingerprints by police authorities so as to authorize the taking of photographs of certain versons charged with crime in certain cases.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 14-8.2, so as to provide for supplementing the compensation of the sheriff in certain counties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of Chapter 877 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, which provided a charter for the town of Chase City, relating generally to the administration and government of the town.
An Act to provide a new charter for the town of Vienna, in Fairfax County, Virginia and to repeal Chapter 456 of the Acts of Assembly of 1956, as amended, which provided a new charter for the town of Vienna in Fairfax County.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 19.1-241.1 through 19.1-241.6 to provide for the appointment of defense counsel for persons accused of felonies in certain proceedings and to provide for the compensation of counsel in such cases.

1968
An Act to amend and reenact §§ $3-178.1, as amended, and 38-245, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, both relating to free passage over State revenue bond facilities.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46.1-351.1 and 46.1-851.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to seizure of motor vehicles in certain cases and proceedings in connection therewith.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-198, relating to the use of radio microwave and electrical devices to check motor vehicle speeds; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.1-198.2, relating to the posting of signs to indicate such devices may be in use.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 6.1-48.1 providing for the report to the State Corporation Commission of certain information concerning bank directors and establishing a penalty for knowingly making false statements therein.