Law Enforcement

1918
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; 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 a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; 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 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 chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916 and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3508 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to fees of certain officers, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3527, 3580 and 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to fees of justices of the peace, attorney for the Commonwealth, clerks, sheriffs, sergeants, jailors, coronors, criers, constables, ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4077 of the Code of Virginia relative to certain allowances for jailers.
An ACT to amend and reenact sections 21, 22, 59, 65, 72, 73 and 121 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, as amended and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908, and to add a new and independent section 125-a thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county
An ACT authorizing the payment of fees earned by certain attorneys for the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Danville, so as to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 3, sections 1 and 2 of chapter 4, sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of chapter 5, and section 2 of chapter 10, of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, as the same, or any of said sections, may have been heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17 and 21 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act concerning the bureau of insurance.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Dungannon, in Scott county,
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Clifton Forge,
An ACT to prohibit the soliciting, aiding or permitting prostitution or illicit sexual intercourse, the use of automobiles or other conveyances for such purposes; to prohibit the keeping of assignation houses and harboring prostitutes for immoral purposes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 15, 23, 24 and 28, of an act entitled an act to creat a State department of game and Inland fisheries, and providing for the issuing of licenses to provide revenue for the support of such department, and imposing penalties for its violation
An ACT for the relief of James R. Elam, of Danville, Va.

1919es
An ACT to add a new section to the charter of the city of Suffolk, to be known as section 34, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office, and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts and all charter provisions in conflict herewith.
An ACT to provide for the recordation of titles to motor vehicles and the identification of the same; to regulate the purchase sale, storage and repair of motor vehicles; declaring the theft of motor vehicles to be a felony and to prescribe penalties for eB ieT
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to make an annual allowance to the sheriff of said county of not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, payable out of the county treasury.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled "an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 18, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk," approved February 7, 1918.

1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4497 of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2551 of the Code oT en
An ACT to regulate search warrants and to prohibit searches without search warrants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5917 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; 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 a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks; providing how they may be sold; regulating the sale of toilet antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; 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 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 chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 19, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the boards of supervisors of the respective counties of the Commonwealth to pay rewards out of the county levies for the capture of illicit stills and delivery of the same to the sheriff of the county, and for the conviction of the person, or persons, guilty of operating the same, in the manufacture of ardent spirits, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 9 of an act entitled an act to provide for the recordation of title to motor vehicles and the identification of the same; to regulate the purchase, sale, storage and repair of motor vehicles; declaring the theft of motor vehicles to be a felony and to prescribe penalties for violations of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent damage and injuries by dogs, and to provide compensation to owners of stock so injured; to provide for license on dogs, and to provide for penalties for violations thereof ; to provide compensation to owners of fowl so injured, and to provide funds for the enforcement of this act therefrom
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county constituting a separate judicial circuit to supplement the fees of any constable therein by the payment of a salary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4775 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers, passed March 15, 1849, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offer- ing for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeal 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 a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, proving how they may be sold, regulationg the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exeinpting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to 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 chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of article 2 and section 1 of article 3, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 2, 1914, and by an act approved March 1, 1916.
An ACT to add a new section to the charter of the city of Radford, to be known as section 70, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualifications, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing all acts and parts of acts and all charter provisions in conflict
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 section 28 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 14, 1895, providing for the incorporation of the town of Mount Crawford, in the county of Rockingham, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4813 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, concerning fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5388 and 5389 of the Code
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3481 and 3507 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Prince George county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint a special police force for said county, and to provide for the compensation of persons appointed as such special police force.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter 388, acts, 1918, relating to fees of officers, and so forth, in connection with violations of the prohibition act
An ACT for the relief of the family of J. C. Shelhorse.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3488 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section fifty-seven of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; 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 a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks; providing how they may be sold; regulating the sale of toilet antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; 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 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 chapter 146 of Acts of Assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 19, 1918.
An ACT to enlarge and define the power and the jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation

1922
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2872 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower cities which have, by the latest United States census, over one hundred thousand inhabitants, to provide for the collection and payment into their treasury of fees for certain services rendered by their police justices either in criminal cases or in cases of violation of ordinances.
An ACT to amend an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville by amending and re-enacting section 30 under chapter 6, for the purpose of prescribing the manner of election of a city constable, a collector of city taxes, a city attorney, and empowering the city council to prescribe the duties of the aforesaid officers, fix their salaries, or compensation; and also permit the city council to appoint a clerk of the market, inspector of buildings, and such other employees as it may deem necessary and proper and to define their term of office, powers, duties and compensation, and providing for bonds for said officers and the abolishment of any office appointive by the city council, for good cause, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1914.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide a special police for Newport magisterial district in the county of Warwick, approved February 19, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 19 of an act entitled an act to, incorporate the town of Manassas, approved April 2, 1873, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide for the scizure by game wardens of illegal hshing and hunting devices in this State.
An ACT authorizing and directing the board of supervisors of Washington county to make an annual allowance, as a salary to one deputy sheriff in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3486 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk.
An ACT to amend an re-enact section 3292 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact subsection 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved February 19, 1918.
An ACT to provide for a special police force in certain counties, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT to prevent bathing in the waters of certain portions of the Elizabeth river, polluted with sewage.
An ACT to regulate the payment and adjustment by common carriers of claims for loss or damage in transit, for storage, demurrage, and car service, and to permit evidence to be shown by affidavits in the trial of certain cases; and to repeal chapter 291 of Acts 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4439 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Strasburg, in the county of Shenandoah, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of chapter 6 of an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 9, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 7 and 8 of said charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2 and 5 of article 2 and section 1 of article 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 2, 1914, and by an act approved March 1, 1916, and as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 24, 1920, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, so as to provide that said town may have a police justice.
An ACT to re-imburse J. P. Taylor and J. C. Hart for barn and hay destroyed in order to capture Walter Ware who was escaping after the murder of Sheriff W. C. Bond and Sargeant Julian F. Boyer, of Orange county, Virginia.
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, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1912, entitled 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 to amend an act approved March 20, 1920, entitled an act for the protection of patients and inmates of State hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic and feeble-minded from improper and unlawful marriages and providing punishment for violation of this act.
An ACT to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, and civil and police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation therefor, and to repeal an act entitled an act to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation therefor, approved February 17, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4580 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of police for religious meetings
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3481 and 3507 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4801 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled 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 and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon.
An ACT to prescribe the number of witnesses to be paid for out of the treasury of Virginia in criminal cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3513 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4804 and 4805 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3101 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 14, 2134, 27, 32, 35, 41, 95, 57, 63, 73 of an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; 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 prosecution 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 a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; 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 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 chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 19, 1918, as heretofore amended, and to add to said act the following new sections, to be numbered sections 5%, 51%, 5%, 21%, 32%, 35%, 55-f, 57%4, 57%4-a, 70%4, 77, 78, respectively, and to be properly inserted serially as numbered in said act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2546 and 2550 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6062 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a population of thirty thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3504 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3527 of the Code of 1887, as amended by chapter 392, Acts 1918, approved March 20, 1918.

1923es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2142 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to motor vehicles.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 27, 1922, entitled "An act to regulate the confession of judgments in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to prescribe the procedure thereon; and to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 23rd, 1922, entitled "An act requiring every power of attorney to confess judgment, to be signed and acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds."
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five thousand nine hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia, relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3513 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27,1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2144 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2133 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate $15,000 to the secretary of the Commonwealth, payable out of the State highway maintenance and construction fund, to enable him to employ six additional inspectors to aid in the enforcement of the laws relating to motor vehicles.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act making it the duty of the game wardens of Warren county to enforce in said county, laws, by-laws, rules, regulations and ordinances relating to trespassing of animals on the public highways of said county,” approved September 4, 1919.

1924
An ACT to provide for a special police force in the county of Arlington prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation, and defining their powers and duties.
An ACT allowing cash deposits in lieu of recognizances with surety
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 2546 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922, and as further amended by act approved March 23, 1923, in relation to official receipts for fines.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4982 and 4983 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1922.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 79-a, which new section is on the subject of the high constable and deputy high constables.
An ACT to define, regulate, and license real estate brokers and real estate salesmen; to create a State real estate commission; and to provide a penalty for a violation of the provisions hereof.