Legislative Amendments

1922
An ACT to regulate motion picture films and reels; providing a system of examination, approval and regulation thereof, and of the banners, posters and other like advertising matter used in connection therewith; creating the board of censors; and providing penalties for the violation
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the State the question of calling a constitutional convention, to be held for the purpose of revising and amending the present Constitution.
An ACT to continue the board of charities and corrections under the name of State board of public welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections 1888 to 1902, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 25, 1920.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on simplification of State government; to prescribe the powers and duties of the commission, and to make an appropriation to enable it to ce the work assigned to it.
An ACT to prohibit the baiting of wild turkeys in this State for the purpose of killing or capturing same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 79 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more; and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more, approved March 20, 1920.
An ACT to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities.
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 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Glade Spring, in the county of Washington,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 7 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 581 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to allow the qualified voters of the city of Newport News, Virginia, to nominate candidates for the council by a primary election.
An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the town of Potomac, in Arlington county, the question of annulling the charter of said town by repealing an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Potomac, in the county of Alexandria; and to annul and repeal said charter upon a majority vote declaring against said charter.
An ACT prescribing the number of times of commencement of the regular terms of court of the eighth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code Of Bsn
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial to Robert Edward Lee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6317 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend section 780 of the Code prescribing the manner of the appointment of school trustees in cities, and to validate the acts of the school board of the city of Winchester.
An ACT to require persons sixteen years of age, or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents who are in destitute or necessitous circumstances; and to repeal an act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more
An ACT to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties.
An ACT to validate, ratify and confirm an order for the circuit court of Greene county incorporating the town of Stanardsville in the said county; to provide that the boundaries of the said town shall be set out in said order; to validate an election held in pursuance of said order, all ordinances of the council of said town, and all official acts of the mayor of said town and its council; to provide that the said town shall have certain officers, chosen by the council, and to confer upon it certain powers concerning them; also to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanardsville in the county of Greene, approved February 5, 1867, and an act entitled an act to change and define the corporate limits of the town of Stanardsville in the county of Greene and for other purposes, approved March 31, 1873.
An ACT to authorize and empower the governor, with the advice of the attorney general, to employ special counsel or attorneys for the State of Virginia to prosecute and recover any claims that may be due this State from the United States of America, on account of putting the public school system of the State of Virginia on an equal basis with other States of the Union that have received public lands from the United States of America for the maintenance of their public school system.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 202 to 218, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 219 and 220 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1923, and the 29th day of February, 1924.
An ACT providing for a commission on mental health.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4067 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act, imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State Corporation Commission, which was approved March 27, 1914, as heretofore amended, approved March 15, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6355 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4163 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2307 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 2308 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2930, 2931, 2932 and 2933 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled 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 provide for the compulsory education of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia, and providing penalties for failure, and designating the manner of collecting such penalties, approved March 14, 1908, approved March 27, 1918.
An ACT to validate and ratify the conveyance of a certain lot in the city of Williamsburg by the mayor thereof to Moses R. Harrell, junior.
An ACT to prohibit any person from killing, capturing or chasing deer in the county of King and Queen for a period of five years.
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 6245 of the Code of 1919, providing when and how docket of chancery cases; how cases called and disposed of.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to constitute the town of Salem and adjoining territory a separate school district, approved February 23, 1888, as amended by an act approved February 9, 1900.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3408 to 3422, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, section 3408 of which was amended by an act approved February 21, 1920, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3191 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and
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An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia, fixing the salary of the judge of the first judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of 1919, as amended by chapter 367 of the acts of the General Assembly of 1920.
An Act making appropriations for the support of the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the year ending February 29, 1924.
An ACT to provide that no costs or fees shall be taxed for, or in any way allowed to, an attorney for the Commonwealth in any case unless he, or some one for him, actually appears and prosecutes the proceedings before the court.
An ACT to require State departments, officers, boards and commissions now required to make annual reports, to make bi-ennial reports in lieu thereof.

1923es
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4104 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 28, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more, approved March 2, 1922.
An ACT to regulate highway contractors’ association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5867 and 5869 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 23, 1922, in relation to the business of the supreme court of appeals to be done at Richmond and Staunton.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2302 of the code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6075, 6243 and 6245 of the Code of Virginia, the latter of which sections was amended by an act approved February 25, 1922.
An ACT to authorize and provide for a new registration of voters in cities having not less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, nor more than one hundred and sixty thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census.
An ACT amending chapter 362 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court in the 20th judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 25 and 29 of an act approved February 18, 1922, entitled “An act to encourage the co-operative marketing of farm products in Virginia, to provide for and authorize the incorporation of co-operative marketing associations or exchanges and the licensing to do business in Virginia of similar corporations created in other States under similar laws.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 144, Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 79 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922, in relation to the apportionment of senatorial district, and providing that under section seventy-eight of the Code of Virginia in relation to the apportionment for the house of delegates cities of the second class shall also be deemed to be parts of the counties out of which such cities may have been carved.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 9 and 11 of chapter 359 of the acts of 1920, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain securities herein defined by requiring an inspection and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker, or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, approved March 28, 1918.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2142 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to motor vehicles.

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5889 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 222, 228 and 229, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to primary elections.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 154, 236 and 238 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6074 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to rules and rule days.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow the quali-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 158 of the Code of Virginia, with reference to the duties of the electoral board, its seal, and the stamping and delivery of the ballots.

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5117 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, in relation to a widow's dower.
An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties, and for the regulation of traffic thereon.
An ACT to appropriate out of the game protection fund a sum sufficient
An ACT to provide for the recordation by clerks of courts of honorable discharges of Virginians who served in the military or naval forces of the United States or its associates during the late World War; to direct the Virginia war history commission to prepare and furnish to such clerks books suitable for such recordations, and to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to ballots.
An ACT to appropriate to the commission on simplification and economy of State and local government a sum to reimburse the members of the commission for expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duty and in the employment of clerical assistance and to provide a per diem
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $18,000.00 to the Thompson Voting Machine Company, Incorporated, in full payment of the voting machine now installed in the hall of the house of delegates, the said sum not to be paid, however, unless and until the governor, speaker of the house of delegates, and clerk of the house of delegates, shall certify to the auditor of public accounts and the State treasurer that, in their opinion, the machine afore-sald is satisfactory in all respects.
An ACT to validate substitutions of trustees under deeds recorded in Virginia heretofore made in the courts of Virginia without sufficient notice or without any notice to some one or more of the persons interested in the trusts
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 24, 1922, titled an act to require State departments, officers, boards and commissions now required to make annual reports, to make biennial reports in lieu thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2132 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, relating to motor vehicle license taxes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the completion of the publication, binding and distribution of the Code of Virginia, approved March 19, 1920.
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 repeal an act entitled an act to create a school district out of the town and neighborhood of Pennington Gap, Lee county, Virginia,
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.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia relating to the compensation of judges, as amended by Acts 1922, page 5, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establigh an additional corporation court for the city of Norfolk, Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled 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, approved March 24, 1922; and to bring within the terms of the said act all counties of the Commonwealth having a population of 30,000 or more.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved January 29, 1920, and March 20, 1920, as relates to Roanoke City, and the city of Petersburg and the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments taken before notaries and other officials to which they did not affix their official seals.
An ACT to provide that when next a vacancy shall occur in the office of register of the land office, from then henceforth the superintendent of the State office building shall be superintendent of grounds and buildings, and the secretary of the Commonwealth shall perform the duties now required of the register of the land office.
An ACT to provide for additional methods for purging the registration
An ACT to prescribe the size of type in writings to be docketed or recorded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3463 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to provide for the centralized purchasing of all materials, equipment, and supplies of every description, the whole or a part of the costs thereof is to be paid out of the State treasury, with certain exceptions; to continue the State purchasing commission, heretofore created, and the State purchasing agent, heretofore designated, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the said commission and agent; to prescribe penalties; to establish an advisory standardization board; and to repeal an act entitled 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, approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to make uniform the law of transfer of shares of stock in corporations.
An ACT to amend section 807 of the Code of Virginia.
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henry to borrow the sum of $100,000.00 and to issue serial bonds or notes for the same running from one to ten years; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity; to provide that the money so borrowed shall be used for the retirement or payment of any notes, bonds or warrants heretofore issued by said board; to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 to be used for the construction and permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said county under the supervision of the State highway commissioner or the board of supervisors of said county and to provide for the payment of same and to provide for the retirement of any notes or bonds which may have been issued by said board pursuant to acts of the general assembly, approved March 9, 1918, and March 14, 1918, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved September 5, 1919; and to provide that no bank, person, firm or corporation in the county of Henry shall hereafter receive any interest on any loan made to the board of supervisors of the county of Henry unless such loan shall have been authorized by the general assembly.
An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact clause or sub-section (f) of section 6253 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6357 of the Code of Virginia with respect to the printing of record in cases on appeal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act toestablish the State high-way eater approved January 31, 1918, and to eae a perpetual memorial
An ACT to create local boards of equalization of assessments of real estate for purposes of taxation in each county and city of the Commonwealth; to define the powers and duties of such boards; to fix the compensation of their members; to create a State tax commission; to define its powers and duties; to fix the compensation of its members; to appropriate money to carry out the provisions of this act; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal sections 2213, 2214, 2215 and 2216 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to confer upon the State corporation commission jurisdiction and to impose upon it the duty to prescribe and enforce rates of pilotage and other charges to be observed in the business of pilotage and to prem the procedure.