Legislative Amendments

1918
An ACT authorizing the councils of cities in this Commonwealth having, by the last United States census, a population in excess of 65,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000, to increase, during their respective terms, the salaries of captains and sergeants of the police force and assistant chief or chiefs of the fire department, and other city officials.
An ACT to provide for the training and licensing of attendants for the sick under certain conditions.
A JOINT RESOLUTION ratifying a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
An ACT to validate certain instruments in town of Mendota.
An ACT to appoint a commission to provide and arrange for a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the first meeting of the general assembly of Virginia, on July 30, 1919, and to provide sufficient funds therefor.
A RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 117 of article S of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
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 provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code, as hereto-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in retation to the compensation a aa
An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment taken by notaries public in foreign countries.
An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken before certain officials in foreign countries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000, and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government
An ACT to ratify, confirm and validate all elections, proceedings, acts or things heretofore held, done and performed in the city of Norfolk, a city having a population in excess of sixty-five thousand inhabitants and less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, in reference to the granting, pursuant to chapter 55 of the acts of the general assembly of 1916, of a special form of government to the said city by the general assembly, as provided for by an act approved February 7, 1918.
An ACT providing for the election of the members of the State corporation commission by the qualified voters of the State and providing for their terms and commission.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution,
An ACT to provide for the issuance of shares of capital stock of corporations organized under the laws of this State without nominal or par value.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15, 18 and 20 of an act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the State of Virginia, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits; to require prompt returns to the bureau of vital statistics at the capital of the State, as required to be established by the State board of health; to insure the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State; to provide certain penalties; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 12, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1914.
An ACT to cause all deposits or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account or deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof.
An ACT providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion or suit on life insurance policies, and to define the period after which such policies shall be incontestible.
An ACT to appropriate money to supplement certain appropriations heretofore made for Salaries and expenses of the said bureau.
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 prescribing the style of type in which conditions and restrictive provisions of insurance policies shall be printed, and to define the time in respect to which insurers may limit the right to institute suit or action upon such policies, and regulate the filing of proof of loss.
An ACT to provide for the preparation and review of estimates for expenditures and revenue, and to establish a budget system for all State departments, bureaus, divisions, officers, boards, commissions, institutions, and other agencies and undertakings receiving or asking financial aid from the State of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for a commission to study educational conditions in Virginia and elsewhere, and to report to the next general assembly its findings, together with recommendations for a revision of the school laws and amendments to article IX of the Constitution, and authorizing the State board of education to meet the expenses thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24, 1914, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1916 (chapter 425, acts 1916), entitled an act to provide additional remedies for the collection of taxes, State, county and municipal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1912, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 10, relating to the initiative, referendum and recall.
An ACT to place mutual fire insurance companies under the supervision and control of the bureau of Insurance.
An ACT authorizing experts in making mental tests to act as members of commissions in proceedings for commitment of feeble-minded persons to the State colonies and also to testify before such commis.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 238 of the Code of Virginia providing for the examination of accounts and the payments of amounts appropriated for contingent expenses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059-y of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and re-enact section 8059 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections 3063, 3065, 39066, 3067, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3056, 3057, 3058, 3059, 3060 and 3062 of the Code, as heretofore amended, and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended by an act approved February 26, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1912, approved March 27, 1914, relating to the terms of the circuit court for the twenty-second circuit.

1919es
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000 to the Virginia war history commission, and to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties and the governing bodies of the several cities to appropriate sums to the local branches of the said comms
An ACT to appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars to the legislative reference bureau for the employment of stenographic and clerical help, and to pay other expenses of said bureau.
An ACT to fix the salary of the assistant attorney general of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of six thousand dollars for the purpose of providing proper ventilation in the halls of the general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain: the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic on and use of the State Highway System, not in conflict with the laws of this State, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $21,113.54 to the Virginia penitentiary to supplement an appropriation made by an act entitled an act to regulate the treatment, handling and work of prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary, and to appropriate funds therefor
An ACT to appropriate the additional sum of $100,000.00 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay criminal charges, the appropriation made for the year ending February 28, 1919, and year ending February 29, 1920, being VS Boal
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the State executive committee of the American Legion, Virginia branch, to pay expenses of organization, establishment of posts, and to assist in the payment of the expenses of a convention to be held on October 10 1919.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties, and councils of cities and towns, to appropriate money, in their discretion, to defray the necessary expenses of Confederate veterans of said counties, cities and towns, in attending any annual re-union of the United Confederate veterans.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to cause all depositions or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account of deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof

1920
An ACT to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and abutting a city with a population of 125,000, or more inhabitants, as shown by United States census, the same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon common councils of cities and ne
An ACT to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof...
An ACT to amend section 626 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 604, 605 and 606 of the Code of Virginia.
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 amend section 3 of an act approved March 3, 1892, entitled an act making an annual appropriation to the Confederate Soldiers’ Home, and in consideration therefor accepting a conveyance from R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans, of the property owned by it and now used for said home, so as to extend the time when the possession and control of the property conveyed in the deed from R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, dated March 24, 1892, shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed; and to further extend the time when the possession and control of said property shall pass from the grantor to the grantee in said deed.
An ACT prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 117 of article 8 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4, sub-section 1, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, as amended by an act approved HeUruany, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5889 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5412 of the Code in reference to books and stationery furnished commissioners and how paid for.
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 132 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 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.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1921, and the 28th day of February, 1922.
An ACT to provide for relief from employment on Sundays of certain employees of the State and the departments thereof.
An ACT. to amend and re-enact section 3465 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commission, to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3897 of the Code of Ms
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county road fund, approved March 4, 1914.
An ACT to provide for furnishing the secretary and treasurer of the board of bar examiners, the State tax board, its counsel and executive
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4204 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 14 ot section 9, chapte 133, of the acts of the general assembly, approved March 13, 1918, entitle an act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charte: of the city of Lynchburg.
An ACT to regulate the sizes of type to be used in certain contracts,.and to prescribe the effect of the use of sizes of type other than those required.
An ACT to validate and hold firm and binding the receipts, recorda- tions and verification of deeds, orders of probate, fiduciary accounts, and other papers and writings received into the clerk’s office of the courts of this Commonwealth by the clerks thereof, and transcribed upon the reco books in said offices, though the receipt, recordation and verification certif- icates attached thereto have not received the attesting signatures of sald clerks, and to provide for the attesting and verification of the ae oe
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 to create a State purchasing commission, to provide for and designate a State purchasing agent, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the said purchasing commission and purchasing agent.
An ACT to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies other than life, providing a penalty for any violation hereof and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
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 erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the world war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land fifteen feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol square in the city of Richmond,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 203 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the completion of the publication, binding and distribution of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the Code of Virginia, relative to temporary appointment of circuit judges, approved March 18, 1918.
An ACT to amend section 703 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal sections 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717 and 718 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two thousand seven hundred and two of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on the fee system in Virginia, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said commission.
An ACT to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more.
An ACT to amend section 741 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2137 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 306 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to create the city of Hopewell, in the county of Prince George; to provide temporary and permanent officers for its organization and management and to authorize the assessment and collection of revenue necessary for the permanent improvement and government of said city
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 122 of the Code of Virginia
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 also to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to repeal section 6441 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT in relation to local school taxes; and repealing sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4200 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of the road law of Montgomery county, as approved March 24, 1910.
An ACT to confer on circuit courts of counties jurisdiction to amend legislative charters of towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6348 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 6349 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appeals and writs of error.
An ACT extending the right of suffrage to women; assessing a State capitation tax on certain women residents of Virginia; and prescribing the qualifications of women entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and all officers elective by the people, and the manner in which women may register and vote; also providing when this act shall take effect.
An ACT to validate certain allowances made to petit jurors by the circuit court of Washington county.
An ACT to provide for the consolidation of towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five thousand nine hundred and eleven of the Code of Virginia, providing for the jurisdiction of circuit courts in cities which have, since the present Constitution went into effect, undergone transition from cities of the second class to the first class.
An ACT to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of towns located partially in one county and partially in another.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the city of Bristol and all powers heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and kcening in repair of public roads in the counties of Alleghanv, Bath and Highland
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 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 provide for a portrait of the late Senator Thomas S. Martin, and to make appropriation therefor out of the public Emde
An ACT to repeal section 4740 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Dillwyn and to submit to the qualified voters of Dillwyn, in the county of Buckingham, the question of repealing the charter of said town.