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Legislative Amendments

1948
An ACT to provide for the a appolnicert of general registrars for towns in certain counties and to prescribe the duties of such registrars when appointed.
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 2-a and 10, as amended of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926, the chapter and sections relating respectively, to sanitary districts and the enlargement and issuance of bonds thereof.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 321-a relating to duty of Governor in relation to certain records.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 401-e 1 requiring certain purchases to be made from the Virginia Commission for the Blind.
An ACT to provide for the submission of a proposed amendment to Section 51 of the Constitution of Virginia to the qualified voters for ratification or rejection, and to prescribe when and how such referendum shall be had, and the manner in which the results thereof shall be ascertained and certified, the returns canvassed, and the vote thereon proclaimed by the Governor
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 6061 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 158 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the duties and functions of electoral boards of counties and cities.
An ACT to provide for a continuing board of assessors of real estate in certain counties; to prescribe the term of office and the powers, duties and compensation of the members of such board; and to repeal Chapter 152 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved March 7, 1940, which provides for boards of equalization of real estate assessments in certain counties, and all amendments thereto.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 3395 of the Code of Virginia relating to appointment of committee to inquire into necessity of general indexes in clerks’ offices.
An ACT to repeal Chapter 19 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved February 15, 1934, relating to participation by high school students in literary and athletic contests and events thereof.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 98 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the registration of voters, the duties of registrars and their pay.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 59 of Chapter 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, which provided a new charter for the city of Hopewell, said section relating to the school d.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding two new sections numbered 5905-a and 5905-b to create a corporation court in the city of Waynesboro and to provide for the election of a judge therefor.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 653-a 1 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to school trustee electoral boards and county school boards, so as to permit additional compensation for certain
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4251-c 2 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to non-forfeiture benefits under life insurance policies.
An ACT to provide for the supervision, regulation and fixing of premiums, rates and charges for and with respect to casualty insurance, including fidelity, guaranty, indemnity and surety bonds and all forms of motor vehicle insurance; to prescribe penalties for violations; and to repeal Chapter 231.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4222 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain insurance companies doing business in the state.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 3, as amended, of Chapter 256, Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 19, 1928, relating to Steele mental Contracts in connection with fire insurance policies.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 11, as amended, of Chapter 105 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved ila eld 1922, relating to the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Public Welfare, and the fees paid for the maintenance of certain children.
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 355, of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, the sections and chapter relating to the regulation of the solicitation of contributions from the public, and to arthend such chapter by adding new sections numbered 1-a and 1-b, imposing certain duties upon the State Corporation Commission with regard to such solicitations, requiring the filing of certain reports and requiring certain certificates as a prerequisite to solicitation of funds.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2773-i 3, providing the time of election and terms of office of certain members of county school boards of certain counties; and providing for an election to determine the sense of the qualified voters thereon.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4 of Chapter 197 of the 1926 Acts of Assembly, approved March 18, 1926, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to authorize the councils or other governing bodies of cities and towns of the Commonwealth, to divide the municipal area into one or more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of land and of buildings or other structures and the height thereof, and also to establish building lines and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of buildings and other structures, and to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the councils or other governing bodies of cities of the Commonwealth to divide the municipal area into one or more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of land and of buildings or other structures and the height thereof, and, also to establish building lines and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of buildings and other structures, approved February 17, 1922, in relation to the manner of effecting regulations by the council or other governing body of a city or town.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 6-a of er ed 15, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1927, approved April 11, 1927, prescribing conditions upon which zoning regulations may be amended or repealed.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 97 of the Code of Virginia, relating to registrars.
An ACT to provide for the submission of proposed amendments to Sections 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 31, 35, 38 and 173 of the Constitution of Virginia and to add two new sections numbered 31-a and 38-a to the Constitution of Virginia, to the qualified voters for ratification or rejection, and to prescribe when and how such referendum shall be had, and the manner in which the results thereof shall be ascertained and certified, the returns canvassed, and the vote thereon proclaimed by the Governor.
An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of political subdivisions to exercise certain powers relative to the adoption of certain ordinances.
An ACT to amend Chapter 62, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1916, approved February 24, 1916, known as the Uniform Land Registration Act, by adding thereto a new section numbered 89-c, providing a method for the removal of property from the operation of the Act, and validating certain orders heretofore made removing property from the operation of the Act.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 2711, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to meetings of the boards of supervisors.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 70 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, prescribing Congressional districts in the State.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1058 of the Code of Virginia relating to expenses of certain insane, epileptic or feeble-minded persons and persons addicted to drugs or the intemperate use of alcohol, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding 5 new sections numbered 1058-a through 1058-e, requiring reimbursement of the State for the care of such persons and providing for the collection thereof.
An ACT to authorize the adoption and enforcement of daylight saving time in certain areas of the State.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 7, as amended, of Chapter 403, Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 24, 1922, relating to the creation of the State Highway Commission and the office of State Highway Commissioner, and to the powers, functions and duties thereof, and providing for certain construction districts and for the allocation of high-bal funds, the section relating to construction districts and aloe o
An ACT to provide for the enrollment of an act to codify the laws of the State, and to relieve the Clerk of the House of Delegates, as Keeper of the Rolls of the State, and the Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing from certain duties in connection with an act to codify the laws of the State.
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 78 and 79 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to house and senatorial districts, and: the election of members of the House of Delegates.
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 2, as amended, 4 and 6 as amended, of Chapter 197 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 23, 1946, providing for the hospitalization, care and treatment of indigent persons, and the allocation, expenditure and use of funds provided for such purposes; to amend the chapter by adding two new sections numbered 5-a and 5-b, relating to certain contracts; and to repeal Section 7, as amended, of such chapter, relating to credits, and to appropriate funds.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2773, relating to salaries of clerks of boards of supervisors, and to repeal Section 2772 of the Code, relating to the same subject.
An ACT to amend Chapter 64, Acts of Assembly 1895-1896, approved January 16, 1896, which incorporated the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, by adding a new section numbered 29-a, relating to powers of the city as to limited access streets.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 2958 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the extension of corporate limits of cities
An ACT to amend and reenact chapter 14 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1944 relating to the registration and reregistration of persons qualified to vote, and transfer of registrations of persons who have registered in lieu of such reregistrations, in cities containing more than one hundred and ninety thousand population according to the last United States census.
An ACT to authorize the State Board of Education in its discretion, to sponsor and supervise certain educational practices and procedures in Hanover County; to appropriate funds to carry out the purposes of this act, and to repeal Chapter 19, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1945, approved March 29, 1945, relating to like matters.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 18 of the Emergency Fair Rent Act relating to expiration thereof.
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 2 and 5 of Chapter 449 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 26, 1928, relating to permits to do certain types of business; and effect of chapter on certain types of insurance companies.
An ACT to prohibit, with certain exceptions, the sale, the offering and exposing for sale, and the use of, fireworks; to provide for the issuance of permits for the use of fireworks, under certain conditions, and to prescribe penalties, and to repeal Chapter 102 of the Acts of Assembly ‘of 1942, approved March 3, 1942, relating to prohibiting with certain exceptions, the sale, the offering or exposing for sale, and the use of fireworks and prescribing penalties for violations.
An ACT to validate certain conveyances of school properties and to repeal Chapter 274 of the Acts of Assembly of 1930, approyed March 24, 1930 which validated certain such conveyances.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1949, and the thirtieth day of June, 1950.
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 1 and 3, as amended, of Chapter 573, Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 31, 1926, relating to parking of vehicles in the Capitol Square, so as to reserve certain areas for parking and to confer jurisdiction as to violations of the Act.
An ACT to amend Chapter 406 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved April 4, 1944, by adding two new sections numbered 23-a and 23-c, prohibiting certain sales of motor vehicles and equipment in certain counties; and to amend and reenact Section 24 thereof providing penalties.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gate City, in the county of Scott, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith.
An ACT to amend and reenact Section 3 of the Virginia Retirement Act, approved March 31, 1942, in relation to the Board of Trustees.
Joint Resolution to Amend Section 51 of the Constitution of Virginia
An ACT to prohibit the advocacy of any change in government by force or violence; and to prescribe penalties for violations.
An ACT to authorize the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Poly-technic Institute to grant and convey unto: Appalachian Electric Power Company, its successors and assigns, certain easements of right of way on, over and across its property in Montgomery County, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and reenact Chapter 395 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved April 1, 1940, so as to authorize consolidation of certain counties, cities and towns into a single city or a single county or a single city and one or more counties, and to add three new sections to such chapter numbered 3-a, 3-b and 6-a relating to the consolidation agreements and plans.
An ACT to regulate the acceptance and expenditure of certain federal funds by counties, cities and towns.
Ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the terms of office of the President.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust, taken by persons named as trustees therein and who were also officers authorized by law to take acknowledgments; and to repeal Chapter 174, Acts of Assembly, 1944, approved March 10, 1944, relating to the same matter, (H 149)
An ACT to continue the Commission on Code Recodification as a permanent commission entitled the Virginia Code Commission; to provide for the printing and publication of a general edition of the Code of Virginia as adopted by the General Assembly at the Session of 1948; to provide for the codification and incorporation into the Code of Virginia of the other laws of a general nature, and of certain additional laws enacted by the General Assembly at the Session of 1948 and subsequent sessions; to provide that the Code of Virginia shall not be printed and distributed as are other acts of the General Assembly; and to make an appropriation.
An ACT to amend Chapter 38 of the Acts of Assembly of 1947, approved January 30, 1947, which provided a new charter for the town of Narrows by adding a new section numbered 10-a providing for a town manager.
An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 184, and 192, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to elections.
An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to provide for the abandonment and closing of certain roads and railway crossings.
1950
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 24-130, 24-207 and 24-290.1 of the Code of 1950 relating respectively, to pay of election officials, to when names of certain candidates and Electors for President and Vice-President furnished State Board of Elections.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-182 and 24-183 of the Code of 1950, relating to when polls open.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-204 of the Code. of 1950, relat.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 59-10, 59-11, 59-12, 59-18, 59-14, 59-15, 59-16, 59-17, 59-18 and 59-19 of the Code of 1950, relating to unfair sales, relief therefrom, and ties therefor, and to amend the Code of 1950 by adding section numbered 59-19.1, so as to provide a penalty for any violation of the Unfair Sales Act.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 1-13 of the Code of 1950 relating to rules of construction by reenacting it in 35 sections as follows: 1-13 through 1-13.34 so as to make certain verbal changes and to add a rule of construction.
AN ACT to provide when the results of the Census of 1950 shall become effective as to certain classifications employed in the Acts of Assembly and Code of Virginia.
AN ACT to provide for the appointment of general registrars in certain counties.
Proposing Amendments to § 141 of the Constitution of Virginia
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 24-220 of the Code of 1950 relating to persons to be present when ballots are printed.
AN ACT to ratify and confirm a deed from Virginia Military Institute, dated February 8, 1927, conveying five acres of land, more or less, with improvements thereon, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, to Mrs. Martha Field Blair, of Rockbridge County, Virginia.
AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 14-163.1, relating to allowances of clerks of counties, so as to increase the allowances to the clerks of certain counties; and to repeal § 14-164 of the Code of 1950 relating to the same matters.
AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 30-22.1 requiring the Secretary of the Commonwealth to furnish certain information as to legislative counsel to the General Assembly.
AN ACT to provide for the furnishing and improvement of certain facilities at the Appomattox Surrender Grounds; and to appropriate funds.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-407, of the Code of 1950 relating to signs at railway crossings so as to change the form required.
An Act to amend the charter of the town of Kilmarnock so as to provide for appointment of a town sergeant by the town council; and to prescribe his term of office and compensation,
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-104 of the Code of 1950 relating to orders of publication against nonresident defendant, to provide that publication may be had in case of a suit for annulment of marriage.
AN ACT to amend and reenact Chapter 79 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 28, 1923, as amended, which is continued in force by § 24-92 of the Code of 1950, relating to registration of voters in certain cities.
AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 22-151.1 providing that the governing bodies of certain counties at the request of the county school board may provide for the construction and maintenance of school buildings and maintenance of school buses by the Department of Public Works of such county; and validating certain acts of the governing bodies of such counties.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 88-178, 88-179, 38-184, 88-185, 88-186 and 88-190 of the Code of 1950, relating generally to insurance, filling blanks on standard form, execution of policies, material permitted on back of policy, other matter permitted, form of standard fire insurance policy and approval of certain forms, and to repeal certain mien
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-57 of the Code of 1950 relating to compensation and mileage of members of governing bodies of certain counties.
AN ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Martinsville, Virginia; and to repeal Chapter 69 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved February 25, 1942, which provided a charter for such city.
AN ACT to provide the effect of certain references in statutes
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 38-253.48 and 88-253.44 of the Code of 1950, relating to application of Chapter 8.2 of Title 38 of the Code of 1950 as to certain types of insur-ance and exemptions from such chapter.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia of 1950 by adding a section numbered 30-14.2 to provide for the reenrollment of bills which have been amended in accordance with the recommendation of the Governor.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-10 of the Code of Virginia of 1950 relating to Boards of Supervisors of certain counties.
An Act to authorize the Keeper of the Rolls of the State to correct typographical errors.
AN ACT to provide a charter for the city of Falls Church, and to repeal Chapter 878 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946 entitled “‘An Act to provide a new charter for the Town of Falls Church in the county of Fairfax’’, as amended.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3, as amended, § 18, and § 14, as amended, of Chapter 145 of the Acts of Assembly of 1887-8, which incorporated the town of Rocky Mount, and which sections related to administration, taxes, and powers of the mayor; and to add to such chapter a section numbered 3-a, providing under certain conditions for the adoption of the town manager form of government in such town.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 328 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 27, 1946, which provided a new charter for the town of Pearisburg, so as to prescribe the terms of office of the members of the council of such town.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-220 of the Code of 1950, relating to consolidation of certain counties and cities, so as to broaden the application thereof.
AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 15-94.1 relating to the residences of county officers in towns which become cities.
AN ACT to establish and continue the Commission on Veterans’ Affairs; to provide for the appointment of members thereof; to prescribe its powers and duties; and to make appropriation
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2, as amended, of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, the section and act relating to subdivisions of land in certain counties and approval of plats therefor, so as to provide for additional matters in relation thereto.
AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 17-119.1, as to provide for an additional circuit court judge in certain judicial circuits.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 24-198 and 24-194 of the Code of 1950, relating to appointment of judges and clerks of elections, so as to provide for the appointment of substitutes under certain conditions.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 53-140 of the Code of 1950 relating to designation of jails to provide for the designation by a trial justice instead of a justice of the peace.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-47 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, to require any proposed toll road or turnpike company to obtain from the State Highway Commission a certificate of approval certifying that its operation will not injure the State highway system.
AN ACT providing for the incorporation as bodies corporate and politic of "park authorities" for certain counties and municipalities; prescribing the rights, powers and duties of such authorities; and authorizing such authorities to acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve and extend parks; to confer certain powers, rights and duties upon certain political subdivisions in relation to parks.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-241 of the Code of 1950
An Act to amend and reenact § 24-265 of the Code of 1950, relating to counting votes, so as to allow the designation of certain clerks to assist the judges of election in the counting of votes.