Law Enforcement

1908
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 55 and 58 of an act 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
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1894, relative to the fees of justices.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Potomac, in the county of Alexandria.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780, of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to carrying concealed weapons, and the punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 3, 1900, and in force from its passage, entitled: An act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT fixing the penalty for writing or composing and sending or procuring the sending of letters or inscribed communications threatening to kill or do bodily harm.

1910
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 890 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act of the general assembly, entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874, as amended by an act approved April 30, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896, as amended in section 9 and section 11 thereof by an act approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same, to provide for the punishment thereof and for the competency of certain evidence at the trial thereof.
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 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 providing for the establishment of a Kennel for blood hounds at the penitentiary farm, and providing how same shall be furnished to the authorities of the various counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of an act approved November 24, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, in the county of Southampton, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 6, 1896, and amended by an act approved February 14, 1901, and amended by an act approved December 19, 1901.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia, as previously amended, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to license and regulate the running of automobiles, loco- mobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations, and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, loco- mobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same, to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules,
An ACT to promote order and the comfort of passengers on the conveyances and at the stopping places of carriers of passengers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to establish a permanent place in the State penitentiary, at Richmond, Virginia, for the execution of felons upon whom the death penalty is to be imposed, and to change the mode of execution so that the death sentence shall be by electricity, and to provide an appropriation therefor
An ACT to authorize the judge of any court, police justice or justice of the peace in cities of forty thousand inhabitants and over to continue the case and admit to bail any person brought before him charged with being an habitual drunkard, with failing to support his wife or children, with being a vagrant or an idler able to work, and who is liable to become a charge upon the corporation, and to commit such person to the supervision of an officer to be known as a probation officer; to provide for the appointment and compensation of such probation officer, and to invest him with full police power while in the discharge of his duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia,

1912
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled 'An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.'
An ACT providing for remedy by motion after thirty days’ notice for any tort; when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; provision to prevent discontinuance of the motion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 37 and 39 of the charter of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, as amended by an act of the general Assembly of Virginia approved February 20, 1871; by an act approved March 22, 1871; by an act approved March 17, 1876; by an act approved March 20, 1877; by an act approved January 25, 1879; by an act approved March 1, 1888; by an act approved February 25, 1892; and by acts approved February 26, 1894; March 1, 1894; March 8, 1894; February 27, 1896; March 3, 1896; March 4, 1896; and by an act approved February 7, 1898.
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 provide a charter for the town of Warrenton, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 7, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk, approved February 18, 1896, and also in relation to the said police justice and to the clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, in connection with fines imposed by said police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act imposing upon railroad corporations liability for injury to their employees in certain cases,” approved March 27, 1902
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 8 of an act entitled ‘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,’ approved March 9, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1908, and further to provide for the recognition of instruments revoking the powers of agents of surety, guaranty, fidelity or security companies who have been authorized by power of attorney to act for such companies.
An ACT to provide a trial justice in all counties having a population in excess of 300 persons per square mile as shown by United States census, to prescribe his jurisdiction in both civil and criminal matters, and to fix his compensation.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, in Tazewell county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Virginia.

1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3663 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Strasburg, in Shenandoah county, approved March 19, 1884.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey, at the seat of justice for the county of Highland, passed March 29, 1848, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend an act passed March 29, 1848, entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey, at the seat of justice for the county of Highland, approved March 17, 1876, and as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled an act to amend an act passed March 29, 1848, entitled an act to establish the town of Monterey as the seat of justice for Highland county, approved March 17, 1876, approved February 19, 1898; and to provide a new charter for the said town of Monterey.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3535 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3525 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 11, 1904, entitled an act to repeal so much of an act approved December 31, 1903, as repeals section 3525 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, relative to the fees of justices in criminal cases, payable out of the treasury of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 3, 1898, and April 2, 1902, in relation to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1912, in relation to when certain officers not to be paid, fees in criminal cases.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11, 12, and 63 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of an act approved April 29, 1874, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lawrenceville, in the county of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 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 17, 1910, entitled 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 section 5 of an act approved February 5, 1900, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice
An ACT to incorporate the town of Mendota in Washington county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24 or an act approved July 11, 1870, providing a charter for the town of West Point, in King William county, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1872, and as amended by an act approved March 1, 1884, and as amended by an act approved May 2, 1887, and as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892, and as amended by acts approved March 3, 1894, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, and to add additional sections thereto.
An Act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, for the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such police justices in said cities to such civil and police justices.

1915
An ACT to incorporate the town of Brodnax, in Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter V of an act approved January 29, 1896, entitled an act to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city.

1916
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3702 of the Code of Virginia, regarding setting fire to woods and certain inflammable substances.
An ACT to provide for the removal of persons holding any office of trust or profit under and by virtue of any of the laws of the State of Virginia, either State, county or municipal, except such officers as are by the Constitution removable only and exclusively by methods other than those provided by this act, who shall knowingly or wilfully misconduct himself in office, or who shall knowingly or wilfully neglect to perform any duty enjoined upon such officer by any law of the State of Virginia, or who shall in any public place be in a state of intoxication produced by ardent spirits voluntarily taken, or who shall engage in any form of gambling or who shall commit any act constituting a violation of any penal statute involving moral turpitude; and providing a procedure therefor; and for the appearance of the commissioner of prohibition, or some one representing his office, in certain cases arising hereunder.
An ACT to provide for policewomen in all cities having a population of 15,000 or over as shown in the latest United States census.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to make the unauthorized use of automobiles or motor vehicles a misdemeanor, approved March 14, 1912, and providing punishment therefor.
An ACT to repeal section 3509 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3508, as amended by an act approved December 31, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13 1908, a relation to the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
An ACT to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner or agent of any building used for such purpose.
An ACT providing for the service or execution by the high constable of any summons, order, attachment, or other process, entered or issued by civil justices elected for cities containing over 45,000 inhabitants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 780 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1898 (chapter 959, acts 1897-98), so as to impose certain duties upon Commonwealth’s attorneys in regard to the collection of fines and costs and to allow them compensation therefor.
An ACT making the Norfolk county courthouse and the Norfolk county jail, in the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, a part of the several magisterial districts of the county of Norfolk, for the purposes of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Norfolk county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to provide for the payment to sheriffs, sergeants and constables the fees provided by law for serving process when required to make such service and such person cannot be found.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 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 to amend and re-enact section 123 of an act entitled 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 amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia,
An ACT to prohibit division of fees between physicians and surgeons.
An ACT to enable voters, required by their duties to be absent from their voting precincts on the day of election, to vote by registered mail.
An ACT to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the issuance, sale, promotion, negotiation, or distribution of any stocks, bonds, notes or other securities or contracts, and to provide penalties for violation thereof and to authorize the State corporation commission to make investigations in connection with the sale of such securities or contracts.
An ACT to prohibit chauffeurs, motormen, engineers and other persons from driving or running automobiles, cars, trucks, engines, trains, or other vehicles while under the influence of intoxicants.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of York county to borrow money for the purpose of providing for an adequate police protection.
An ACT for the protection of fish in Clinch river and its tributaries, in Russell county.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond so as to amend and re-enact sections 9, 11, 12, 13, 28, 30-a, 30-c, 30-d, 30-h, 37, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92 as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended, and so as to add to the said charter certain sections to be known as 13-a, 13-b, 18-a and 18-b, and to repeal sections 24-a, 24-b, 66-a, 66-b, 66-c, 66-d, and 66-e, as the same or any of them may have been heretofore amended.
An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising and making such advertising a misdemeanor, and providing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 8 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation for sale, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits as herein defined, except as provided herein; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to the sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to permit the councils, or other governing bodies of cities of the first class, to establish a system of pensions for injured, retired or superannuated members of the police and fire departments of said cities, or of either of said departments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to require sheriffs and sergeants of the counties and cities of this State to report to the courts of their respective counties and cities the number of prisoners confined in their respective jails
An ACT to amend section 6 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3591 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter X of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1906.
An ACT requiring sheriffs and sergeants to keep a record of persons confined in jails; stating what said record shall contain; requiring reports to be made to the State board of charities and corrections; prescribing penalty.

1918
An ACT to restrict the trading in second-hand grate baskets, electric lights or gas fixtures, locks or other builders’ hardware, plumbing fixtures, bells and bell fixtures, lead or brass water pipes, or any part of such fixtures or pipes, any wire, cable, lead, solder, copper, iron or brass used by or belonging to a railroad, telephone, telegraph, gas or electric light company.
An ACT to organize home guard companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45 and 54 of an aet to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An Act to provide for the use of probation and the suspension of sentence in criminal and juvenile courts, providing for the appointment of probation officers and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to permit the councils, or other governing bodies, of cities of the first class, to appropriate money to aid in the support of dependent children of members of the police and fire departments of such cities who may have lost their lives through injuries received or disease incurred while in the performance of their duties as members of such departments.
An ACT to prevent minors from frequenting, playing in or loitering in public pool rooms, billiard rooms, outside of the corporate limits of towns and cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to prohibit advertising concerning venereal diseases.
An ACT to repeal section 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to prohibit gypsies and other strolling companies of persons pretending to tell fortunes and practice magic arts for money.
An ACT to provide for the payment out of the State treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the counties and cities of the State, certain fees in felony and misdemeanor cases, and to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the respective counties and cities of the State shall be paid in fees out of the State treasury, and to fix for them and to provide for the taxing and payment of certain fees in scire facias and other proceedings upon forfeited recognizances, and to amend und re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528S of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.