Law Enforcement

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 374, chapter 21, of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1916, in reference to the public defense.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3011 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4797 and 4800 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are contained in chapter 189 of the said Code, on preventing the commission of crimes.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining cities in the State of Virginia having a population of one hundred and seventy thousand or more; to provide for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices; and to rescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices and clerks; and to prohibit and provide penalties or alteration or failure to serve process issued by such trial justices ae clerks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3504 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to fees of certain officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1692 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22 and 25 of an act entitled,‘‘An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town (now the city) of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, approved March 24 1920,’’ approved March 4, 1922.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter III of an act entitled An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5205 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to re-amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro, known since consolidation with Basic City as Waynesboro-Basic, and to provide a charter for the town of Waynesboro.
An ACT empowering the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to appropriate money from the county funds the relief of W. E. fae:
An ACT to prohibit the false certification of a check and to require the amount of any check certified to be forthwith charged against the account of the drawer, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4551 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to crimes against nature.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2324 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to dogs.
An ACT to protect the title of motor vehicles within this State; to provide for the issuance of certificates of title and evidence of registration thereof; to regulate purchase and sale or other transfer of ownership; to provide that registration of certificates of title shall be notice to subsequent purchasers; to facilitate the recovery of motor vehicles stolen or otherwise unlawfully taken; to provide for the regulation and licensing of certain dealers in used and secondhand vehicles as herein defined; to prescribe the powers and duties of the secretary of the Commonwealth hereunder; and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions hereof; and to repeal an act entitled 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 violations of the act and repealing act approved September 9, 1919, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Smyth county to make annual allowances, as salaries, to two deputy sheriffs
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk
An ACT to provide for a special police force in the county of Roanoke, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation, and defining their powers and duties.
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 there- for 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; 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 make it an offense to operate an automobile, engine, or other motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of liquor, and to prescribe penalties therefor; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 345 of acts of assembly, 1922, approved March 23, 1922, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 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.
An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising

1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Floyd, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 57 of an act 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, as approved April 2, 1902, and amended, Acts 1910, 1916 and 1922; and to provide for the appointment by the town council of a police justice for the town of Covington, Virginia, and to define his powers and duties.
An ACT to make it a misdemeanor to use unlawfully on a motor vehicle, or to have in possession on a motor vehicle with intent to use unlawfully, any device for creating a smoke screen, and to fix the penalty therefor.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact subsection C of section 2546 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to official receipts for fines.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of an assistant to the Commonwealth’s attorney for the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 17, 18, 20, 25, 28 and 46 of chapter 407 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, in relation to intoxicating liquors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts, approved March 27, 1922, and March 15, 1924, in relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal courts.
An ACT to provide for the payment of $1,298.28, subject to a credit of $114.00 to John H. McClellan to satisfy a judgment obtained against one R. B. Whitten, an agent and servant of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and employed by the highway department, as provided by law.
An ACT to provide that officers making arrests, searches or seizures on the public roads or highways of this State shall, in order to obtain any fee therefor, be dressed at the time of such arrest, search or seizure in a uniform; to prescribe the uniform to be worn, and to prevent the taxing or collection of any fees, mileage, attendance, pay or any other charge, compensation or reward for arrests or prosecutions where the arrest, search or seizure was made on a public road or highway by an officer not wearing the uniform prescribed by this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3854 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2705 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to removal of officers from office.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5791 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, providing for the liability of intrastate common carriers by railroad operated by steam for injury to, or death of, employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Brookneal, in the county of Campbell, approved February 20, 1908, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922, and Section 2003 of the Code of Virginia, in respect to the working of prisoners on the public roads.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6506 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how debtor may be arrested and held to answer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 20, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 55, 61, 65, 67, 69 and 75 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act.
An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Danville to create the office of bail commissioner, and to prescribe his powers and duties, and fix his compensation.
An ACT to authorize the hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint a bail commissioner for the city
An ACT permitting the establishment of industrial alcohol plants for the manufacture of alcohol for non-beverage purposes upon the petition of the city council in cities of over one hundred thousand; authorizing the attorney general to issue permits therefor, requiring the giving of bond; fixing the conditions and regulations under which such alcohol may be manufactured and sold, and defining the offenses and penalties for violation of the act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining cities in the State of Virginia having a population of one hundred and seventy thousand or more, to provide for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices; and to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices and clerks: and to prohibit and provide penalties for alteration or failure to serve process issued by such trial justices and clerks
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4973 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to recognizances in criminal cases.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1927, and the 29th day of February, 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4473 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the unlawful shooting at, or throwing stones or other missiles at or against, certain trains, cars, vessels, motor vehicles and other vehicles carrying passengers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4163 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 24, 25, 37 and 44 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Farmville
An ACT to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
AN ACT to make it unlawful for any person falsely to personate a sheriff, constable, police officer, marshal or other peace officer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 20 and 21, and to repeal sections 10, 11 and 12, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia, approved December 21, 1901, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1902.
An ACT for the protection of foxes or other fur-bearing or hair-bearing animals, in Amelia, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Brunswick, Charlotte, Franklin, Tazewell, Washington, and Chesterfield counties, and to provide punishment for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 2850-a, in relation to notaries public for the State at large.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 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

1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 446 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 24, 1926, relating to the use of smoke screens on a motor vehicle; penalty, forfciture.
An ACT for the relief of the estate of Timothy Rives; and to authorize the payment from the treasury to his executors and executrix, the sum of $2,020.00, for services rendered during the last four years of his term of office as Commonwealth’s attorney of Prince George county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of chapter 407 of the acts of 1924, relating to intoxicating liquors, so as to prohibit the operation of automobiles by persons while intoxicated or under the influence of narcotic drugs, or self-administered intoxicants of any nature, and to require clerks of courts and justices to report such convictions to the director of the division of motor vehicles.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Henrico county to appoint special policemen for said county; to prescribe their compensation, and terms of office, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, insofar as they apply to the county of Henrico.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of chapter 473 of the acts of 1924, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city-of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-five hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted, in relation to fines.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg, as defined by chapter 507 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1884, and as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, and 572 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the State board of accountancy, and to add a new section relating thereto, designated as section 572a.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5019, 5048 and 2091 of the Code of Virginia, the former as heretofore amended, and to repeal section 5036 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Franklin county to appoint special policemen for said county; to prescribe their compensation, and terms of office, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, insofar as they apply to the county of Franklin.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 407 of the acts of 1924, entitled: an act to define ardent spirits and 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 ct cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; 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 flavouring 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 make it an offense to operate an automobile, engine, or other motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of liquor, and to prescribe penalties therefor; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 345 of acts of assembly, 1922, approved March 23, 1922, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act approved March 20, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4405 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT making it unlawful for any person to permit dogs to run at large in the county of Northumberland during the months of April, May, June, July, August and September of each year.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4928 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to compensation and mileage of jurors in criminal cases.
An ACT to provide for a special police force for the county of Fairfax, appointment and compensation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6019 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of justices, and enlarging the same so as to prohibit justices of the peace from taking claims for collection or making collections thereon, and prescribing punishment for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4439 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 329 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended, relating to the collection of fines imposed by court martial, the same having been omitted from the official Code of 1919, but continued in force by the provisions of section 2673 thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act of the general assembly entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act,” approved March 24, 1620, as last amended by chapter 165 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 303, relating to the police justice of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact article 3 of section 3, and section 6, and article 8 of section 8, and articles 1, 2, 5, 9, 10 and 13 of section 9 and article 11 of section 10 and article 13 of section 11 of an act entitled an act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town sof Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers, approved March 24, 1920.
An ACT relating to and defining the duties of certain officers with reference to aliens committed for violation of law or as public charges.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Luray, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3510 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by chapter 354 of the acts of the general assembly ct 1920, page 529, relating to pay of jailers for feeding prisoners, and to provide that no such payments be made until approved by the commissioner of public welfare; and to provide that the commissioner of public welfare may transfer prisoners from a jail to a hospital, clinic, State, city or county farm, road camp, et cetera.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate $50,000.00 annually, payable out of the State highway maintenance and construction fund, to enable the director of motor vehicles to employ twenty additional inspectors to aid in the enforcement of the laws relating to motor vehicles.
An ACT to define a “mob,” and a “lynching”; to provide for the punishment of persons composing a “mob,” the actions of which result in the injury or death of another person; to prescribe penalties therefor; to provide for the recovery of damages therefor from any person or persons composing the mob; to prescribe the jurisdiction of courts in actions and prosecutions under the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of chapter 407 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, page 593, approved March 20, 1924, concerning intoxicating liquors, as amended in chapter 231 of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, page 417, approved March 23, 1926.
An ACT for the protection of foxes, coons, rabbits, squirrels, musk-rats, opossum, otter and beaver, in the county of Lunenburg, and to provide punishment for the violation thercof.
An ACT to provide for protection of school children upon the streets and highways, when being transported to and from school by buses and other vehicles.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to validate certain certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia taken by commissioners of deeds appointed by governors of States other than the governor of Virginia, approved February 26, 1924, so as to include notaries public appointed by the governor of Virginia, approved March 6, 1926, so as to include notaries public of States other than Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 72 of chapter 474 of the acts of 1926, approved March 25, 1926, entitled an act to regulate the operation of vehicles on public highways; to govern and protect pedestrians while using such highways; to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3613, 3615, 3625 and 3638 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of corporations, as amended by an act, approved March 27, 1922.
An ACT creating a judicial council in Virginia for the purpose of considering and recommending needed changes in the rules of practice of the courts of the Commonwealth, and the improvement and simplification of the administration of justice, and defining its other duties, and providing for the payment of its actual expenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of chapter 111 of an act of the general assembly of Virgimia, approved March 10, 1908, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 4 and 5 of section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of an official reporter for the thirty-first judicial circuit and prescribing his powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 273 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 64 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News as amended by an act approved March 24, 1920.