Legislative Amendments

1928
An ACT to authorize the governor to solicit subscriptions for a fund to provide for the erection of a statue of General Robert Edward Lee in the State capitol, to contract with a sculptor to create the same, to expend the funds collected and to do all things necessary or proper to secure the erection of such statue, and to report his actions hereunder to the general assembly.
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 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 72 of an act entitled, “An act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 19, 1920, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924.
An ACT to authorize and empower Henrico Lumber Company, Incorporated, to construct a temporary bridge across the Pamunkey river, between the counties of King William and Hanover, for private use between the lands of John W. Atkinson and George P. Haw.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5890 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the jurisdiction of circuit courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4366 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, in relation to the exercise of the power of eminent domain and concerning the pay of commissioners.
An ACT to provide for the submission to the people for ratification or rejection the proposed revision and/or amendments of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, Al, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197 of the Constitution of Virginia (a part of which said sections have not been altered but remain as they are in the present Constitution, but have been included in said proposed revision), and the addition thereto of seven new sections to be numbered as sections 86a, 115a, 183a, 184a, 184b, 195a and 198, and the repeal of sections 128, 148, 149, 150, 151 and 182 of the present Constitution, all as authorized by section 196 of the present Constitution; to provide when and how such election shall be held; to designate the persons who may vote in such election; and to provide for the ascertainment and proclamation of the result of such election.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide whole family protection for members of fraternal benefit societies
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10, subsection (b) of section 11, and section 13 of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government, in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency
An ACT relating to the reorganization of fraternal benefit societies into mutual life insurance companies.
An ACT to provide that the heads of the tax-supported institutions of higher learning shall confer with each other, with the rectors or chairmen of the governing boards of said institutions, with the State superintendent of public instruction and the State board of education under the direction of the governor, for the purpose of preparing a plan eliminating unnecessary duplication, defining the educational scope and activity of each institution and means for future coordination; to provide for the elimination of certain courses and to prevent future duplication.
An ACT to provide a legislative committee to consider and investigate all matters relating to the apportionment of that portion of the motor vehicle fuel tax appropriated for the maintenance of the roads and bridges in the several county highway systems, and for the construction and reconstruction of roads and bridges in such systems, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said committee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, as heretofore amended.
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 3876 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6007 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the pay and mileage of jurors im civil cases.
An ACT to appropriate $5,000.00 to defray the cost of publishing the manuscripts edited by the Virginia war history commission and for indexing the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 98 of the Code of Virginia in relation to registration of voters.
An ACT to create an advisory and research commission to investigate and report upon the question of freight rates, freight rate discriminations, and the development of water-ways; to prescribe its powers and duties, and to make an appropriation to pay the expenses of the said commission.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6020 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide that proceedings before justices, including civil justices, civil and police justices, trial justices and judges of mayoralty courts, in civil cases, may also be by notice and motion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to printing ballots.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3796 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conduct of meetings of corporations, ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 202, 203, 205 and 208 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to absent voters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of chapter 423 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act to create county school boards; to prescribe the powers, duties, obligations and compensation of such boards; to provide that, in counties, the county school board shall be the unit of operation of the public free school system, and to abolish district school boards in counties, and county school boards as they may exist on September 1, 1922, approved March 24, 1922.
An ACT ‘to amend and re-enact section 1051 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointments of committees of residents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the compensation of judges.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6063 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to how process served on domestic corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the filling of vacancies in certain city, town and district offices.
An ACT to authorize the board of the Virginia teachers colleges to sell and convey a tract of land belonging to the State teachers college, at Fredericksburg, and to acquire by purchase for said college certain lots from the proceeds of sale.
An ACT to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia banking act. and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith. and to provide penalties for the violations thereof.

1930
An ACT to authorize and require the director of the legislative drafting bureau, if such bureau is established independent of the department of law to collate, revise and codify the election laws of Virginia, and if such bureau is not so established, to authorize the governor to engage the services of an expert for the purpose; to provide for a commission to sit with the governor to consider such revision and recommend additional changes; to provide for their report and to appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred
An ACT to validate certain conveyances of school properties where all legal requirements were not strictly complied with.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 202 and 203 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to absent voters.
An ACT to repeal chapter 829 of the acts of 1899-1900, entitled an act to create Ettrick school district in Matoaca school district of Chesterfield county, approved March 6, 1900, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4449a of the Code of Virginia, of 1919, relating to the sale and purchase of second-hand metals.
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding a new sub-section to section 25 thereof, the said sub-section to be designated (n), and being in relation to deductions under the income tax law; also to amend and re-enact sections 39, 90, 107, 110, 120, 170, 198, 203, 267, 407, 410, and 415 of the tax Code of Virginia; which sections are in chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 18 and 26 of the tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of income, intangible personal property, banks, banking associations and trust companies, inheritance taxes, licenses, real estate assessments and erroneous assessments; and also to repeal section 169 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of ship brokers; section 179 of the tax: Code of Virginia, in relation to fish factories, and section 181-a of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of installment paper handlers or dealers.
An ACT to add a new chapter to the Code of Virginia to be designated as chapter 109-a thereof; and to add fourteen new sections to the Code of Virginia, numbered 2773-a to 2773-n, both inclusive, relating to the organization and government of counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 53 of the Virginia banking act as amended and re-enacted by chapter 503 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia for the year 1928 by conferring certain powers upon receivers for trust companies and banks authorized to do a trust business.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 242, 243, 244, 247, 250, 251, 253, 273, 275, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, and 435 of the tax Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 245, 246, 248, and 249 of the tax Code of Virginia, section 244 having been amended by an act approved March 28, 1928, all of which sections relate to the assessment and taxation of real estate, except section 435, which relates both to real and personal property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 52 of chapter 482 of the acts of assembly of 1928, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3118 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to civil justice courts.
An ACT to provide for the regulation, supervision and control of persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation on the improved public highways of this State which are, or may hereafter be declared to be, parts of the State highway system or any of the county highway systems and/or between any incorporated communities declaring motor vehicle carriers, as herein defined, to be common carriers, transportation companies and public service corporations within the meaning of the law; and prescribing and imposing certain taxes and license fees and providing for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission to study the question of retirement of and pensions for the public school teachers of the State of Virginia and judges and State employees.
An ACT to provide that a voting place for a magisterial district of counties may be held in cities when wholly surrounded by a magisterial district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 494 of the acts of assembly of Virginia of 1926, authorizing co-operation on the part of the proper authorities of the State of Virginia in respect to construction of boulevards or highways in the State of Virginia, or widening or improving existing highways of the United States government.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 262 of the Tax Code of Virginia, and to repeal chapter 44 of the acts of assembly of 1926, requiring permits to be obtained for construction, repair or improvement of buildings in certain counties, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact ‘section 6017 of the Code of Virginia, relating to removal to court of cases from justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections (d) and (t) of the defini-tion clause defining the term “tractor truck” and “highway,” and to amend and re-enact sections three, eighteen, nineteen and one-half, twenty, as amended, twenty-nine, as amended, and thirty-two, of chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, relating to the office of the director of the division of motor vehicles, and his assistants, their powers and duties, and to the licensing and registration of motor vehicles.
An ACT validating acknowledgments heretofore taken by notaries public in the State of Virginia whose commissions have expired.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3233 of the Code of Virginia, relating to re-survey of oyster planting grounds, and to the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals. [H B 88]
An ACT to revise, collate, and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to the militia, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the military Code of Virginia, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the disability of a person holding office or employment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 51 of the acts of assembly of 1922, entitled an act providing for the use of voting machines in cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more, so as to provide for the use of voting machines in any city, town or county in the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1257, 1260, 1261 and 1262 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to licensing and regulating commission merchants.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Occoquan and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend section 15 of chapter 433 of the acts of the general assembly of the session of 1928, approved March 26, 1928, entitled an act to provide for the organization, maintenance and supervision of a fire, windstorm, lightning, tornado, hail, and automobile fire and theft insurance rate making bureau; to provide for the making and filing of such rates by the bureau, insurance companies and other insurers; whether stock, mutual, reciprocal or inter-insurer; to generally regulate rate making agreements; to prohibit discrimination; and to empower the State corporation commission to fix, approve, alter or reduce such rates; providing penalties for violations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,
An ACT to fix and establish the terms of the circuit court of Prince George county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6122 of the Code of Virginia as to when a defendant in equity may file his answer or other pleading.
An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Central State Hospital, at Petersburg, to convey a certain portion of the real estate belonging to said hospital to the United States for inclusion in the Petersburg national military park; to declare null and void the deed executed by the board of directors of the Central State Hospital to the United States, and to repeal chapter 294 of the acts of 1928, approved March 21, 1928.
An ACT authorizing the purchase by the Commonwealth of the land, with the building thereon, at the northeast corner of Main and Twelfth streets, in the city of Richmond, for uses as an office building, and the transfer of the division of motor vehicles thereto; and the repair and assignment of the offices vacated in the capitol, and making appropriations therefor, and for the purchase of the property within the limits of the capitol square known as the Davis property, in accordance with the option given thereon, and to make appropriation therefor.
An ACT to repeal chapter 508 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, session of 1928, providing a county road board for the county of Princess Anne.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3008 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide an assistant attorney for the Commonwealth for the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 204 and 209 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to absent voters.
An ACT to authorize the governor of Virginia to lend to Williamsburg, Incorporated, the old speaker’s chair and the “warming machine” which were, before the removal of the State capitol to Richmond, a part of the furniture of the capitol at Williamsburg, upon the complete restoration of the old capitol building, at Williamsburg.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6252 of the Code of Virginia, relating to bills of exceptions.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 6073-a, providing in what counties city newspapers deemed published for purpose of legal advertisement, and to repeal chapter 177 of the acts of 1920, approved March 15, 1920.
An ACT to repeal chapter 426 of the acts of the legislature, approved March 27, 1918, and amendments, providing State money aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public roads
An ACT for the establishment of a liberal arts co'lege for women, and to continue in force the commission on a liberal arts college for women.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579 and 580 of the Code, relating to the legislative drafting bureau, re-establishing the same, providing for a director, his duties, his assistants and clerks, and to repeal sub-section (b) of section 22 of chapter 33 of the acts of 1927, commonly known as “an act to re-organize the administration of the State government.”
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia of 1919, by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered thirty-eight hundred and twenty-a, which new section relates to the sale, conveyance and transfer by corporations, with certain exceptions, of the whole of their property, including good will, to any person, or corporation authorized to acquire the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 807 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appointment of board of visitors for University of Virginia.
An ACT providing for filling the niches in the rotunda of the capitol with busts of the presidents of the United States, succeeding Washington, born in Virginia.
An ACT to create a continuing commission for the purpose of drafting and recommending to the session of the general assembly of 1932 a general law setting forth optional forms of county government.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3781, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to corporations.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 108-b, relating to the registration of voters in cities having a population of 165,000 or more, inhabitants, by the last United States census.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-four hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia of 1919, as amended by an act approved March 26, 1928, and section thirty-four hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia of 1919, as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in regard to license to practice law.
An ACT to repeal chapter 242 of the acts of assembly of 1878, entitled “An act to constitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding territory a separate school district”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April 18, 1927.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 7 of chapter 29 of the acts of assembly of 1927, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boone Mill, in the county of Franklin, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9-a of an act known as the Virginia banking act, being chapter 507 of the acts of 1928, approved March 27, 1928, so as to provide how State banks may be merged or consolidated with other State banks or national banks; by what laws such mergers and consolidations are governed and vote required; the effect upon fiduciary offices; the effect of such consolidations with national banks; the extent to which the property rights and benefits of such State banks, when so consolidated or merged into a national bank, or of a State bank converted into a national bank, may be transferred; to provide that, in case said State bank be acting as administrator, co-administrator, executor, co-executor, trustee or co-trustee of or in respect to any estate or trust administered under the laws of this State, such relation, as well as any other or similar fiduciary relations, and all rights, privileges, duties and obligations connected therewith shall remain unimpaired and shall continue into said national bank.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4931 of the Code of Virginia, relating to writs of error.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 2742 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, in relation to how the circuit court and board of supervisors of any county may authorize and permit the erection of a Confederate or World War monument at the county seat thereof.

1932
An ACT to authorize the governor under certain conditions to receive gifts of busts or other memorials of certain great Virginians to be placed in the old hall of the house of delegates in the capitol, in such a manner as not to interfere with the utility of said hall as a place of meeting.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4228 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 18, 1926, in relation to the defenses of suicide and death by execution in actions on life insurance policies, and providing when such policies shall become incontestable, and as to certain ex-ceptions.
An ACT authorizing the State commission on conservation and development to acquire by gift, purchase or exercise of eminent domain, lands for park purposes and to convey or transfer such lands to the United States of America.
An ACT to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and abutting any city, within or without this State, having a population of 125,000 or more, as shown by United States census, and in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining any county which adjoins and abuts any such city and has a density of population of 500 or more to the square mile, the same powers and authority now vested in, or hereafter conferred upon, common councils of cities and towns, and to repeal an act entitled 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 towns, approved March 4, 1920, and any and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to restrict the issuance of school warrants and the creation of school indebtedness by the county school board and other school officials of the county of Washington; to require the division superintendent of schools for said county to countersign all school warrants; to require such superintendent to give bond and to prescribe the liability of himself and his sureties under certain conditions; to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to provide for the payment of certain floating indebtedness of the said county school board by the issuance of new obligations therefor; to provide for certain levies for the final payment of such obligations; to limit the purposes for which the board of supervisors may make certain levies and the amount of such levies, and to provide for a referendum thereon in certain cases; to provide for the refund of certain school funds to the town of Abingdon; and to repeal an act of the general assembly entitled, an act to require the approval of the qualified voters of the county of Washington on certain local questions; to prohibit the board of supervisors of the said county from appropriating the county levy for certain purposes, to require the division superintendent of schools and members of the board of supervisors of the said county to be bonded, and to make them liable on their official bonds in certain cases; and to limit the rates of levy in the said county ; also, to authorize and direct the county school board of Washington county to borrow a sum not in excess of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and to issue its notes therefor, the proceeds to be used to pay the existing school indebtedness of the school districts of the county and to replace funds expended during the present year for indebtedness incurred during the last preceding year or years; and providing for the levy and collection of a tax for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3116 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings upon interrogatories before civil justice, and civil and police justice.
An ACT to regulate investments of domestic life insurance companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section (z) of section 2, and section 7 of chapter sixty-four of the Acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled 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 provide a new charter for the town of Remington and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 640 of the Code of Virginia, which was enacted into law by chapter 471 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1928, approved March 26, 1928, said chapter being an act revising, amending, consolidating and codifying the laws of Virginia relating to public schools, the section amended being in relation to approval of loans from the literary fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled 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, approved March 16, 1920, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1928.
An ACT to accept a conditional gift of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) to the Commonwealth of Virginia from the Honorable John Barton Payne for the erection of an art museum and to authorize the governor and the art commission to proceed with the erection of a State museum without cost to the Commonwealth of Virginia on the soldiers home property or elsewhere in the city of Richmond if and when they shall receive the necessary additional donations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3482 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of commissioners in chancery.
An ACT allowing the costs of printing briefs to be taxed as costs in the supreme court of appeals of Virginia.
An ACT to provide the method of amending the charters of corporations chartered for the purpose of and engaged in conducting hospitals, the stock of which is nondividend paying, when the corporation is unable to convene a meeting of its stockholders.