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Legislative Amendments

1934
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Colonial Heights, Chesterfield county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act entitled an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to building and loan associations, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia building and loan association act, and to repeal all code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for violations thereof
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on redistricting judicial circuits in Virginia; to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and to appropriate funds for certain expense of said commission.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109 thereof a new section numbered 2770-a, providing for clerks for boards of supervisors and fixing and providing for the compensation and duties of such clerks: and to repeal section 2770 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the same matters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6253 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to certificates in lieu of bills of exceptions
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 124 thereof a new section numbered 3120-a prohibiting special justices, who are judges or justices of any civil court, civil and police court or police court in certain cities from practicing law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6107 of the Code of Virginia relating to pleading several matters of law or fact.
An ACT to provide for the election in cities having a population in excess of forty-five thousand and less than one hundred and twenty-five thousand of members of the executive committee of political parties, and of delegates to party conventions, and to provide for primaries for the nomination of party candidates in such cities and party senatorial candidates in senatorial districts of which such cities are a part.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 294 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the time and place of meeting of the General Assembly, making special provision for meetings in the Restored Capitol at Williamsburg, Va.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to levy additional taxes for the benefit of the public schools in said county, the several magisterial districts and incorporated towns therein, and authorizing the school board to borrow money for said purposes, approved March 21, 1928, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, in the county of Westmoreland, approved February 25, 1892, as heretofore amended, relating to the officers of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to waive or modify certain statutory limitations and restrictions on making loans from the literary fund to county and city school boards, and to confer on the State Board of Education discretionary powers in lending money from the literary fund to school boards, for the purpose of enabling school boards to meet, to comply with and take advantage of the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, approved September 13, 1933.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 154, 155 and 156 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to elections and duties of candidates and printing of ballots.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Richlands, Tazewell county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to identify and provide for the maintenance, operation, control and management of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium; to provide how patients may be received therein; to provide for the distribution and use of revenues derived therefrom and to appropriate the same; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
1936
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5431 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to securities in which fiduciaries may invest funds.
An ACT to establish an unpaid commission on interstate cooperation, and prescribe the duties of said commission.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 154 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to filing notice of candidacy, so as to require petitions to be filed by persons who are not party nominees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 10 and 19 of an act en-
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22 and 23 of an act entitled "an act to provide a new charter for the town of Farmville," approved February 10, 1890, as amended by chapter 162 of the Acts of the Assembly of 1912, approved March 16, 1912, said sections relating to the issuance of bonds; to provide for the issuance of serial bonds; to prescribe the procedure for issuing refunding bonds; and to validate all bonds now outstanding.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust taken by persons authorized by law to take acknowledgments and who are trustees in
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto fifteen new sections, numbered 4987-a to 4987-0, both inclusive, providing for the appointment of trial justices and substitute trial justices in counties and in certain counties and cities; providing for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices, and prescribing the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices, substitute trial justices and clerks; providing that trial justices, substitute trial justices, and their clerks, selected and functioning under other acts, shall be subject to the said fifteen new sections as if appointed thereunder; providing for the appointment of associate trial justices in certain counties and prescribing their terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation; providing for continuity between this and prior trial justice systems; enlarging authority of justices of the peace and mayors to issue attachments, warrants and subpoenas and as issuing officers; prescribing fees to be charged and collected by trial justices and clerks and providing for the disposition of moneys collected by such officers; appropriating for such purposes the sum of $60,000 annually for distribution among the counties; and exempting certain counties until they adopt the provisions of the foregoing sections; and to repeal Sections 4983 and 4988-a to 4988-p, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia and certain other acts providing for the appointment or selection of trial justices, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled “an act to regulate investments of domestic life insurance companies”
An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on the distribution and disposal of surplus State publications; to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; and to appropriate funds for certain expenses in connection with the distribution and disposal of such publications.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Martinsville, Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1077 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2708 of the Code of Virginia prohibiting city and town officers from being interested in contracts with their city or town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide that no non-resident of this State shall be appointed or allowed to qualify as personal representative, guardian or committee of a resident decedent, infant or person non compos mentis, unless there be appointed also a resident personal representative, guardian or committee, approved March 15, 1924, so as to extend its provisions to apply to non-resident decedents, infants and persons non compos mentis.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6185 of the Code of Virginia relating to how report of commissioners in chancery made out; what to be returned with it, et cetera, so as to require the commissioner to give notice of the date of the return of his report to certain parties or their attorneys.
An ACT to provide for the registration of voters in all cities having a population of not less than 60,000 nor more than 100,000, on serial number cards.
An ACT to provide that persons, firms, corporations or associations which collect dues or assessments and provide burial benefits in return therefor shall be known as burial societies; to provide for the organization, licensing and regulation of such societies; and to provide penalties.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 167 thereof a new section to be numbered section 4184-a, relating to reports of examinations of insurance companies.
An ACT to provide for the creation of a commission for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the formation of the Constitution of the United States; to prescribe the duties of said commission; and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 169 thereof a new section to be numbered 4258-1, relating to policies of industrial life insurance and providing provisions which must be contained therein, and provisions which must not be contained therein, and requiring forms of policies to be filed with the State Corporation Commission.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 169 thereof a new section numbered 4258-k, defining industrial life insurance.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 52 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Hopewell 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 Hopewell, approved March 29, 1934
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 169 thereof four new sections numbered 4251-c, 4251-d, 4251-e, and 4251-f, relating to policies of life insurance and providing provisions which must be contained therein, and provisions which must not be contained therein, permitting provisions required by the laws of the place where the company is organized to be included, and requiring forms of policies to be filed with the State Corporation Commission.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 168 thereof a new section numbered 4226-a, providing that insurance agents shall collect full premiums and receive full commissions, exceptions thereto and prohibiting insurance agents from countersigning insurance policies in blank.
An ACT to ratify certain acts of the State Highway Commission and the State Highway Commissioner relating to additions heretofore made to the State Highway System, and the conveyance of certain sections thereof to the United States as parts of the Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway; to authorize and prescribe future similar conveyances of remaining parts thereof and the acquisition of the lands so conveyed or to be conveyed; to cede to the United States certain jurisdictional powers over said lands in said parkway and to reserve to the Commonwealth of Virginia all other powers and jurisdiction over same.
An ACT to make it unlawful to erect, or maintain, or permit to be erected, or maintained, along any public highway any false or misleading sign purporting to furnish travel information; to provide for the removal and destruction of such signs under certain circumstances; to prescribe penalties for violations; and to repeal inconsistent acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, 7 and 14 of an act entitled "An act to legalize, regulate and control the ‘manufacture, bottling, sale and disposition of beer, lager beer, ale, porter, wine, similar fermented malt or vinous liquor, and fruit juice, containing one-half of one per centum or more of alcohol by volume, and not more than 3.2 per centum of alcohol by weight; to provide for licensing and taxing manufacturers, bottlers, wholesalers and retailers of such beverages by the State and the counties; cities and towns thereof; to impose an excise tax upon all such beverages; to appropriate a portion ‘of the revenue derived hereunder for the collection of the taxes herein imposed and for the administration of the act; to provide for the dismissal of pending prosecutions for alleged violations of laws heretofore in force declaring illegal the beverages legalized by this act where such prosecutions are founded upon the then illegality of such beverages; to impose penalties for violations of the act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,’ approved August 29, 1933, so as to vest the power to issue, or refuse, licenses and collect license taxes in the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 14-a so as to vest in the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board the same power and authority to suspend and revoke licenses issued hereunder and to control hours and days when beverages herein referred to may and may not be sold as are vested in the board with reference to alcoholic beverages by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3424-b, requiring clerks of courts in which revocation or suspension proceedings against attorneys at law are had, or in which an attorney is convicted of a felony, to give notice thereof to the clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals and to the secretary of the Virginia State Board of Bar Examiners.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in counties of the State adjoining a city having a population, according to the last preceding United States census, of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants or more; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts; and to provide for the issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for establishing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary districts,” approved March 17, 1926, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 12-a, authorizing the board of supervisors of any county in which a sanitary district has heretofore or may hereafter be created under said act, to provide public utilities for thickly populated areas through the creation of smaller districts within such sanitary district, and to provide funds for said purpose, by taxation and otherwise; a new section numbered 12-b, conferring certain powers of eminent domain upon the board of supervisors of the county, and a new section numbered 12-c, declaring what shall be the effect if any part of section, sentence, clause, or phrase of the said act is declared unconstitutional.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3853 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to boards of directors of corporations created under chapter 148 of the said Code, by omitting provisions for change of principal office by action of the board.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hanover county to appropriate a sum not to exceed $5,000.00 to the Patrick Henry Bi-Centennial, Incorporated, for the purpose of aiding in the celebration of the bi-centennial of the birth of Patrick Henry; and to declare an emergency.
An ACT providing for the formation of non-profit corporations to be known as Electric Cooperatives, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the fullest possible use of electric energy in this State by making electric energy available at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and prudent management of such cooperatives; providing for the rights, powers and duties of such cooperatives; authorizing and regulating the issuance of bonds and other obligations by such cooperatives, and providing for the payment of such obligations and the rights of the holders thereof; and providing when the State Corporation Commission may require electric utility companies to make electric energy available to communities not now served.
An ACT to create a legislative council to be known as the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council; to provide for the appointment of the members of such council; to prescribe the powers and duties of the said council; and to appropriate funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 410 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 409 of the Code of Virginia, both sections relating to the powers and duties of the Director of the Division of Grounds and Buildings.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 372, as heretofore amended, 387, 388, as heretofore amended, 390, 393, 394 as heretofore amended and 395 of the Tax Code of Virginia in relation to collection of taxes and delinquent taxes, so as to change from June 16 to June 30, the date on which interest shall be collected on delinqunet taxes and penalties, to change from July 1 to August 1, the date on which the treasurer shall make out delinquent tax lists, to change from July 1 to August 1, the date such lists shall be transmitted to the clerks of courts, and to change from June 15 to June 30, the date as of which such lists shall speak.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section numbered 322, providing for the appointment, duties and expenses of Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to require persons or corporations doing business under an assumed or fictitious name, and persons doing business as copartners, to sign, acknowledge, and file a certificate; to designate what the certificate shall contain; to provide for recordation of such certificate, to fix fees of the clerk, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act,’ approved March 23, 1922, in relation to persons or corporations doing business under assumed or fictitious names, or as partners, making and recording certain certificates, appointing statutory at-orney and providing for personal judgments in certain cases, upon service of process on such agent.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 144 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6371 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the destruction of manuscript records and the binding of printed records in the clerk’s offices of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to define who are to be deemed Virginia citizens and residents within the purview of the laws conferring upon them certain privileges in relation to the State institutions of higher learning.
An ACT to revise, rearrange and consolidate into one act certain acts relating to the Attorney General; to provide for his assistants, clerks, stenographers and employees and for their compensation; to prescribe the authority and duties of the Attorney General and to provide for commerce counsel for the State Corporation Commission; and to repeal certain sections of the Code and acts relating to the Attorney General and his office, and to designate this act as Section 374-A of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 247, as heretofore amended, and section 267 of the Code of Virginia, relating to how primary elections, and elections of county, corporation and district officers contested, respectively, so as to provide for the taxing of costs in such contests.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 994 of the Code of Virginia, relating to donations to educational institutions in the State.
An ACT to authorize and empower the electoral board of each county adjoining a city having a population of at least 180,000 inhabitants, as shown by the last preceding United States census, to appoint a general registrar for such county; to provide for the rights, powers, duties and compensation of such general registrar; to provide the effect of such appointments; and to provide how the office of general registrar may be abolished.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled “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,” approved March 2, 1922, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 48 of an act entitled 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, approved March 27, 1928, as heretofore amended, relating to liability of borrowers and loans on stock
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to waive or modify certain statutory limitations and restrictions on making loans from the literary fund to county and city school boards, and to confer on the State Board of Education discretionary powers in lending money from the literary fund to school boards, for the purpose of enabling school boards to meet, to comply with and take advantage of the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, approved September 13, 1933, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1934.
An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment taken by notaries public in foreign countries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4222 of the Code of Virginia relating to resident agents of insurance companies; countersignature of insurance policies; and prohibition of discriminations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Alexandria, Virginia, approved March 24, 1932, relating to filling vacancies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 18 and 19 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the acquisition of lands by the United States of America, so as to prescribe the rights, powers and jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America over and with respect to such lands, and persons and property thereon, and transactions, matters and things arising thereon, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 19-a and 19-b, giving the conditional consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to the acquisition by the United States of America of certain lands in Virginia, and prescribing the limitations imposed upon and the reservations incident to any transfer of such lands; and prescribing the respective jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of the United States of America over such lands, over persons and property thereon, and over any transactions, matters and things arising thereon; and to repeal certain acts pertaining to the same subject.
An ACT to fix the minimum compensation of civil justices in certain cities of the Commonwealth, and to prohibit such civil justices from practicing law.
1936/1937es
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 1/9 thereof thirteen new sections numbered 2726-m to 2726-y, both inclusive, vesting in boards of supervisors power to cause county buildings to be insured, to provide suitable rooms for county purposes and to determine what allowances payable out of county treasuries shall be made to sheriffs and clerks, and to repeal sections 2726 and 2726-a to 2726-l, both inclusive relating to the same matters.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 388 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the printing and distribution of the acts and joint resolutions of the General Assembly.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Norton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and all former charters and amendments thereof, of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to authorize councils and other governing bodies of cities, towns, and counties to make ordinances prohibiting the driving of motor vehicles, engines and trains in such cities, counties, and towns by persons while under the influence of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout or any other liquid, beverage or article containing alcohol, or under the influence of any other self-administered intoxicant or drug of whatsoever nature; to prescribe the minimum punishment which may be imposed and to provide for the revocation of the rights of persons convicted of violating any such ordinances to drive any such motor vehicle, engine or train,” approved March 30, 1936.
1938
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 23 of Chapter 15 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1936, approved February 14, 1936, and known, designated and cited as The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, so as, among other things, to provide a separate license for each separate place of business; when transfer allowed; and requiring that such license be kept posted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4233 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to restrictions placed upon insurance companies or agents of this State by the laws or regulations of another State.
An ACT to provide for the erection of a suitable building to house the State Library, the State Law Library, the Supreme Court of Appeals, and the offices of the Attorney General; to that end to create a commission to be known as the State Library Building Commission; to provide for the appointment of the members of such commission; to prescribe the powers and duties of the said commission; to provide for the acceptance by the Commonwealth of certain land which may be conveyed by the City of Richmond, and for the erection thereon of a suitable building to house the State Library, the State Law Library, the Supreme Court of Appeals, and the offices of the Attorney General; and to continue the State Library Building Commission created by the General Assembly of 1936 until June 30, 1938, and to prescribe its powers and duties for the said period.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3405, as heretofore amended, and Section 3406 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports by clerks of certain courts of the business of such courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the regulation of public dance halls located in counties adjoining cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and in counties having a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile, according to the last United States census”
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Manassas, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Manassas, in Prince William county’
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 395 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to delinquent State taxes.
An ACT providing for the adoption and enforcement by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia of rules and regulations defining the practice of law, prescribing a code of ethics governing the professional conduct of attorneys at law and a code of judicial ethics, establishing practice and procedure for disciplining, suspending and disbarring attorneys at law, providing for the creation, government and conduct of the Virginia State Bar, prescribing fees to be paid for the administration of this act, and providing for the collection and disbursement thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the designation of judges to hold courts other than their own, so as to include within its provisions certain retired judges, and the designation of judges and retired judges to assist other judges, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to provide for holding the courts of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit of Virginia, and who may hold the same, and the pay of the judge holding said court, and as to the other counties in said judicial circuit reimbursing the county in which said court is held for part of the pay of said judge so holding said court”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to prescribe the times for holding the regular terms of the circuit courts in the twenty-seventh judicial circuit”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled "An act to provide a new charter for the city of Alexandria, Virginia"
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 81 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing how vacancies in the General Assembly shall be filled
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6269 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sale and renting of property by special commissioner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 3716-a, conferring and imposing upon the State Corporation Commission certain powers and duties relating to banking and insurance and to the administration of laws of this State relating to banking and ee te
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3408 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to who may practice law in this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 935 of the Code of Virginia, providing for a board of visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, their number, method of appointment, term and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 638 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, authorizing the school boards of counties, cities and towns to borrow from the literary fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5414 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of commissioners of accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 115 of the Code of Virginia, relating to evidence of the prepayment of State poll taxes by voters transferred from one city or county to another city or county, or from one ward in a city to another ward therein.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4222, as heretofore amended, 4226-a, and 4235, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to insurance; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4221-a defining certain terms as used in certain sections of the Code of Virginia and a new section numbered 4235-b, requiring registration of solicitors and a new section numbered 4235-c; and to repeal Section 168 of the Tax Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amendment of charters of corporations.
An ACT to amend and’ re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled “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”, approved March 2, 1922, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to regulate lobbying, to regulate the employment of persons, and the activities of persons employed, to promote or oppose legislation before the General Assembly of Virginia and the committees and members thereof, or either, and to provide penalties for violations of this act.
An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to adopt ordinances prohibiting or regulating the sale of wine and beer or either of them between certain hours of certain days; to provide for the issuance of retail beer and wine licenses in accordance with the provisions of, and the suspension or revocation of such licenses of persons convicted of violations of, such ordinances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3463 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to compensation of the justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to powers of corporations.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1939, and the thirtieth day of June, 1940, to prescribe the provisos, terms, conditions and provisions with respect to the items of appropriation, and their payment, and to repeal all acts wholly in conflict with this act, and all parts of all acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county which adjoins three cities lying wholly within this State, one of which cities has a population of 170,000 or more as shown by the last preceding United States census, to appoint an executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of such executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of the board of supervisors and certain other county officers in relation thereto; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1017 of the Code of Virginia, relating to commissions to ascertain insanity, epilepsy and inebriety.