Legislative Amendments

1962
An Act to provide for the submission of a proposed amendment 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 amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 58-6.1, authorizing the Governor to enter into reciprocity agreements with other States for the collection of taxes.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 1-13.88, to provide for the method of compliance with Section 52 of the Constitution in certain cases, and to ratify, validate and confirm certain references.
An Act to Provide a Charter for the Town of Onancock, in Accomack County, and to Repeal Chapter 127 of the Acts of Assembly of 1881-82
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-666.32:1 of the Code of Virginia, pertaining to the issuance of district school bonds, and to validate certain district school bonds and the proceedings for the issuance thereof.
An Act to effectuate the consolidation of Princess Anne County and the city of Virginia Beach, a city of the second class, into the city of Virginia Beach, a city of the first class; and to this end to validate, ratify and confirm the consolidation agreement between Princess Anne County and the city of Virginia Beach; to provide a charter for the new city of Virginia Beach, and to repeal Chapter 38 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, approved February 14, 1952, which incorporated the city of Virginia Beach, and all amendments thereto.
An Act to amend and reenact § 82-91 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the reporting of persons suspected of having venereal disease.
An Act to provide for the compensation of councilmen in cities with a population between seventy thousand and seventy-five thousand inhabitants.
An Act to amend Chapter 884 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, as amended, which provided a charter for the city of Charlottesville, by adding a section numbered 50.1, so as to incorporate therein by reference certain sections of the Code of Virginia.
An Act to emend and reenact § 4-115, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to manufacturers and wholesalers not to be interested in retail sales; cleaning and servicing equipment; sale of gas or ice, renting, etc., bottle or can openers, draft beer knobs and tapping equipment
An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-147 of the Code of Virginia, relating to membership in industrial development corporations and loans to such corporations by its members.
An Act to provide a new charter for the City of Petersburg and to repeal the charter which was provided for said town by Chapter 168 of the Acts of Assembly 1874-5, approved March 11, 1875, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts inconsistent with this act.
An Act to authorize attorneys recognized to practice before the U. S. Patent Office in patent or trademark cases to practice patent or trademark law in Virginia so long as the U. S. Patent Office, or any part thereof, is located in Virginia, without being licensed as attorneys at law in Virginia, under certain conditions; to define such practice; and to require a license of and impose a license tax upon any such attorney who maintains an office in this State.
An Act to amend and reenact § 26-59, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to persons eligible to serve as personal representative, trustee or guardian.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-839, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the weights of vehicles and loads.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15-20.8:1, authorizing governing bodies of counties to prohibit hunting in certain areas of such counties.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-300, 24-305 and 24-807 of the Code of Virginia, relating to requirements for preparation of voting machines, regulations for use of such machines, and providing for independent ballots.
An Act to amend and reenact § 54-276 of the Code of Virginia, relating to exceptions and exemptions to the prohibition of the practice of the healing arts by unlicensed persons.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-10.1:2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to revision and recodification of ordinances in certain counties.
An Act to validate the creation of the Appomattox River Water Authority, as a public body, politic and corporate, and the appointment of its members, and to prescribe their terms of office, and to provide for the appointment of their successors, and to authorize the cities of Petersburg and Colonial Heights and the counties of Prince George, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie to contract with said Authority for a supply of water.
An Act to amend and reenact § 55-6 of the Code of Virginia, to make clear the transferability of easements in gross.
An Act to prohibit the institution of annexation proceedings, by cities and towns, and consolidation of counties, cities and towns, from the effective date of this act until ninety days after the adjournment of the regular session of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1964; and to provide for a study and recommendations by the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council concerning the laws relating to annexation and consolidation.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-233, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to chairmen and vice-chairmen of county boards of supervisors.
An Act to amend and reenact $$ 23-40 and 28-49.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to The College of William and Mary in Virginia, in Williamsburg, Richard Bland College in Petersburg, and Christopher Newport College in Newport News.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-239, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the salaries of clerks in certain counties.
An Act to amend and reenact §8§ 33-298 and 33-317.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the regulation of advertisements and advertising structures along and adjacent to State highways, and to repeal § 33-317.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject.
An Act creating a Commission to study and report upon matters relating to the State Highway Department and to appropriate certain funds.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 6-26, as amended, 6-27 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 6-27.1, the amended and added sections relating to branch banking, so as to allow branch banking, under certain conditions, and to prescribe the conditions under which branch banking is permitted
An Act to provide for the gradual revision of the Code of Virginia under the direction of the Virginia Code Commission; and to provide for a study and revision of Title 14 of the Code of Virginia, and to recommend changes in the Constitution of Virginia, and to appropriate certain funds to the Virginia Code Commission.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-1088 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to confirmation by court of reports of certain delinquent real estate.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 11 of Title 23 an article numbered 2.8, containing sections numbered 23-135.12 through 23-185.16, so as to establish, as a division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the Clifton Forge-Covington Branch of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and to prescribe the terms and conditions incident to the establishment of such branch college.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-551.11 of the Code of Virginia relating to the exception of certain counties from the operation of certain Code sections relating to county executive secretaries, and to provide for a referendum.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 1-15 and 15-24.3 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal § 15-24.2 of the Code of Virginia, so as to make daylight saving time uniform throughout the State; and to correct an error.
An Act to amend and reenact § 24-45, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to election districts in cities.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1-13.3:1, relating to when papers may be served, delivered or filed, or other acts done, in the course of judicial proceedings.
An Act to amend and reenact § 17-41, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to when clerk’s offices are to be kept open.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4-79, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to manufacturers, etc., not to have interest in retail business or sell, rent, lend or give to retail licensees or to owners of premises any equipment or money.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia relating to appointment of clerks of county boards
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-118, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to prohibition against remarriage on dissolution of bond of matrimony.
An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-336 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the receipt and disposition of certain warrants by clerks of circuit and corporation courts.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 16.1 a chapter numbered 9, consisting of sections numbered 16.1-218 through 16.1-221, to establish the Judicial Conference of Virginia for Courts Not of Record, to prescribe its membership, functions, meetings and how expenses shall be paid; and to appropriate funds.
An Act to amend and reenact § 24-45.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to election districts or precincts and voting places in cera aal 481
An Act to amend Chapter 107 of the Acts of Assembly of 1901, approved February 18, 1901, which incorporated and provided a charter for the town of ‘Jonesville by adding a section numbered 4-a, relating to powers of town.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55-17.1, relating to the continuance of trusts and uses.
An Act to provide for the creation and regulation of horizontal property regimes.
An Act to effectuate the consolidation of the city of South Norfolk and Norfolk County into a new consolidated city of the first class; and to this end to validate, ratify and confirm the consolidation between the city of South Norfolk and Norfolk County; to provide for certain pending annexation suits; to provide a charter for the new consolidated city; and to repeal Chapter 215 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952 which incorporated the city of South Norfolk and all amendments nee
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 17-119.2, to provide for the election, qualification and commissioning of judges of circuit courts under certain conditions and to ratify, validate, and confirm certain actions heretofore taken.
An Act to amend and reenact § 6-201.49 of the Code of Virginia, relating to persons forbidden to use the name “savings and loan” or “building and loan’’.
An Act to amend and reenact § 24-14, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to State senatorial districts.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-241, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to regular meetings of boards of supervisors of counties.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia regarding certifications of recordation upon counterparts of certain recorded instruments.
An Act to amend and reenact certain sections of the Code of Virginia relating to registrars and to repeal certain other sections.
An Act to amend and reenact § 24-12, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to apportionment of the members of the House of Delegates.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15-65.2 and 15-77.73 of the Code of Virginia, relating to grant of municipal charters and amendments thereto, and procedure in connection therewith.
An Act to amend and reenact § 56-49, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers of public service corporations other than railroad corporations and limitations thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact § 9-67 of the Code of Virginia, relating to membership of the Virginia Code Commission.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 6 a chapter numbered 18, and containing sections numbered 6-577 through 6-585, providing for the formation of real estate investment trusts, providing a method for registering such trusts, and amendments thereto, and providing how actions against such trusts may be made.
An Act to amend and reenact § 36-47.1, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation of commissioners of housing authorities serving for or operating in two or more cities.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 24-277.2 and 24-277.3, to provide for a recount of the ballots in general, special or primary elections for the offices of State Senate, House of Delegates, Clerk of Court, Attorney for the Commonwealth, City Attorney, Commissioner of the Revenue, Treasurer, City Collector, City Sergeant and County Sheriff, and to prescribe the procedure in such cases.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22-67.2, relating to salaries of school board members; to validate certain salary payments to county school board members; and to repeal § 22-67.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 80-42, 30-44, and 30-45 of the Code of Virginia, creating the Committee on Offenses Against the Administration of Justice.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-266.8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to licenses in certain counties.
An Act to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1968, and the thirtieth day of June, 1964.

1963es
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-17, 24-67, 24-78, 24-79, 24-120, as amended, § 24-121, as amended, §§ 24-122, 24-123 and 24-124 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto sections numbered 24-17.1, 24-17.2, 24-28.1, 24-67.1, 24-87.1, 24-119.2 and 24-128.1, all of which amended and new sections relate to registration and voting in State, local and Federal elections, and to the duties of certain election officials; and to make an appropriation to the State Board of Elections.

1964
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-87 of the Code of Virginia, relating to termination of penal sentences, the final days of which fall on certain
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-41 of the Code of Virginia, relating to bonds of officers.
An Act to amend and reenact § 17-119.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to judicial circuits and additional judges in certain judicial circuits.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 29-57.1, permitting the Commission to charge use fees for hunting on certain lands or facilities.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-821 and 24-830, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to time within which application for ballot is to be made, and the making and delivery of lists of applicants by registrar.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28-14, as amended, 28-15, 28-19, as amended, 28-21, as amended, 28-22, as amended, and 28-26, as amended of the Code of Virginia, 1950, classifying certain educational institutions of the Commonwealth, defining the projects which may be ed and erected by such educational institutions and authorizing such educational institutions to charge and collect rents, fees and charges for the use of such projects and any existing facilities, to charge and collect student building fees and other student fees and to pledge the same and any other available funds of such educational institutions to pay the principal of and the interest on bonds issued to pay the cost of any project and the cost of maintenance and operation of any such project and any such existing facilities the revenues of which are pledged in whole or in part to such bonds.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 82-197 and 82-200 of the Code of Virginia relating to the “State Hospital Survey and Construction Law.”
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 58-86.1:2, relating to the complete liquidation of a subsidiary corporation, so as to provide for the non-recognition of gain or loss for income tax purposes in certain circumstances.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 89 a section numbered 39-7, prohibiting certain persons from holding the office of justice of the peace.
An Act for the relief of Freida V. Judge and James M. Judge.
An Act to provide for a memorial to Dr. Jack W. Witten; and to this end to authorize the Department of Conservation and Economic Development to accept and maintain certain property in the town of Tazewell; to authorize the State Library Board to erect a marker thereon; and to authorize certain other agencies to participate in such undertaking.
An Act to require the State Library Board to have prepared and to erect an historical marker near Tye River in Amherst or in Nelson County, and to appropriate funds.
An Act to amend and reenact § 30-a of Chapter 94 of the Acts of 1934, approved March 7, 1984, which section was continued in effect by § 4-45.1 of the Code of Virginia, and relates to local option elections with respect to the sale of alcoholic beverages in certain towns.
An Act to provide for the disposal of exhibits and fixtures in the State Museum, and to repeal §§ 9-62, 9-68 and 10-21.8 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the location and operation of the Museum of Science and the State Museum.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-586 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regular meetings of the county board of supervisors.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 80 thereof a chapter numbered 2.1, containing sections numbered $0-28.1 through 80-28.11, to regulate the employment of persons, and the activities of persons employed by others, in connection with promoting, advocating or opposing legislation before the General Assembly of Virginia; to provide penalties for violation of this act; and to repeal §§ 80-20 through 80-28 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55-114.1, requiring certain courts or clerks thereof to admit to record certain writings, and to ratify, validate and confirm certain acknowledgments.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-797, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the preparation and transmittal from clerks of courts to commissioners of the revenue and the Department of Taxation of certain data pertaining to deeds, deeds of trust and other documents.
An Act to amend and reenact § 22-818 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the exemption or withdrawal of local boards and school divisions from textbook program.
An Act to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties, cities and towns to appropriate funds or supply goods and services to certain regional organizations under certain conditions.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding in Title 28 thereof a chapter numbered 15, containing sections numbered 28-182 through 28-208, creating a Board and Department of Technical Education, and prescribing their powers and duties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 24-87, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for members of electoral boards.
An Act to amend and reenact § 6-84 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the payment of subscriptions to the capital stock of banks.
An Act to amend and reenact § 1-15, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to standard Eastern time applying at certain times of the year in certain parts of the State.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22-83.2 providing for terms of office of certain county school boards; and validating certain appointments as members of such boards.
An Act to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 465 of the Acts of Assembly of 1901-02, which incorporated and provided a charter for the town of Wakefield in the county of Sussex, the section relating to municipal officers, so as to increase the number of councilmen; and to validate certain prior elections and actions.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.1-98.1, so as to provide for notification to certain clerks of courts by the State Corporation Commission of certain dissolutions or reinstatement of corporations, and to provide for recordation thereof.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding Chapter 12.1 to Title 24 containing sections numbered 24-818.1 through 24-818.8, to permit the use of ballot marking devices and tabulating equipment in conducting general, special and primary elections in any city, town, or county in the State, to provide for the form of the ballots, and the approval of said devices and equipment by the State Board of Elections.
An Act to amend and reenact § 13.1-286 of the Code of Virginia, relating to amendments to articles of incorporation of nonstock corporations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-91, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to grounds of divorce from the bond of matrimony.
An Act to amend and reenact § 17-119.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to additional judges in certain judicial circuits.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-187 of the Code of Virginia, relating to traffic signs, signals and markings erected or placed by local authorities.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-81 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal §§ 58-692.2 and 58-748.1 of said Code, all relating to inspection by the public of certain records filed with the Division of Motor
An Act to provide for the submission of a proposed amendment to Section 28 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 authorize the Governor to restore the privilege of registering and voting to persons convicted of certain felonies.
An Act to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1965, and the thirtieth day of June, 1966.