| An ACT to fix the open season for hunting squirrels in the county of Halifax, and to provide that squirrels may be shot in said county at any time when damaging crops, by landowners and certain other persons. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, subject to the approval of the Governor, to release, quit-claim, sell, transfer and convey all right, title and interest of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of the said Commission in and to certain lands, together with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, located in the county of Pittsylvania. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and property rights. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 46 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to lands of churches and other like organizations, so as to authorize such land to be improved and encumbrances thereon to be extended. |
| An ACT to authorize the clerk of the circuit court of Norfolk county, Virginia, to transcribe and consolidate the general indices to judgments in his office from 1843 to January 1, 1938, and to make said consolidated transcript a legal record of judgments docketed in his office. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An act to make it unlawful for any person, in the county of Halifax, to knowingly or intentionally go, or allow his dogs to go, upon any other person’s private game preserve, containing more than 5,000 acres, while hunting or chasing any fox or deer, without permission, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof" |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3033 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to powers of councils of cities and towns and to the fire departments of cities and towns rendering aid beyond the corporate limits. |
| 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 the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3015-a, authorizing the councils or other governing bodies of cities to permit certain encroachments on the streets and alleys thereof. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled "An act to authorize the board of supervisors of counties having a density of population of more than five hundred per square mile according to the last United States census, to divide the area of said counties 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 in said counties; to authorize such boards of supervisors to adopt all necessary regulations for carrying into effect the purposes of this act; to provide for zoning commissioners and boards of zoning appeals in such counties, their powers and duties; to provide for appeals from such zoning commissioners and boards of appeal and the effect thereof; to authorize such boards of supervisors to appoint administrative officers; to prescribe the powers and duties of such administrative officers; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof", approved April 11, 1927, as heretofore amended, so as to include within the provisions of the act, counties adjoining cities having a population of 100,000 or more. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “an act to provide for the relief of taxpayers from taxes and levies on lands assessed with fictitious mineral values; and from local levies on real estate assessed for taxation at a valuation grossly in excess of, and out of proportion to, the assessed value of real estate generally, in the same county, or city, for the same year, or years” |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Cape Charles, Northampton county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Cape Charles. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5419 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to resignation by fiduciaries. |
| An ACT to appoint certain trustees for the Greensville Guards, and to authorize the trustees for said guard unit to convey certain real estate to the County School Board of Greensville county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 13, of an act entitled "An act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Charlottesville and to provide a charter and special form of government for the said city, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Charlottesville" |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 122 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to certain deeds upon which recordation tax shall not be imposed. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6235 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how testimony may be perpetuated, and to prescribe the parties to whom such testimony may be available. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the State Board of Education |
| An ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board and the Governor of Virginia to sell and convey from time to time, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, all or any part of the property of the Eastern State Hospital in the city of Williamsburg, and property of the Eastern State Hospital within three-fourths of a mile of the city of Williamsburg and to use the money received from such sale in the purchase of certain lands in James City county, and in the construction of such buildings and plant and the purchase of such equipment as may be necessary for the use of such Hospital; and to authorize the said board to accept and use gifts and bequests made in connection with the proposed transfer of the plant from the city of Williamsburg. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to provide for relief from taxes and levies erroneously or improperly assessed after July 10, 1902, and prior to March 31, 1926, against real estate in cases where such real estate was returned delinquent for the non-payment of such taxes and levies, was sold for the satisfaction thereof, and bought by the Commonwealth, and not thereafter redeemed, or purchased from the Commonwealth by any other person’ |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1021 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to fees and costs of commissions on question: of insanity, inebriacy, feeble-mindedness and epilepsy. |
| An ACT to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the laws of Virginia, relating to the appointment of a State veterinarian and assistant veterinarians, and the prevention, control and eradication of contagious and infectious diseases of livestock and poultry; to prescribe penalties for violations; and to that end, to repeal Sections 907 to 920, both inclusive, Section 920-a, and Sections 1224, 1225 and 1227, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, all of which relate to the subjects above mentioned, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto fourteen new sections numbered Sections 907 to 920, both inclusive, relating to the same subjects. |
| An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development, with the approval of the Governor, to sell and convey all right, title and interest of the said commission and of the Commonwealth of Virginia in and to two small tracts of land in Henry county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 49 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, as amended by Chapter 290 of the Acts of 1936, in relation to hunting, trapping or fishing on the lands or waters of another. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2489 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to delinquent land sales and compensation of certain officers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2 and 6 of an act entitled an act to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to acquire, by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, scenic easements, or in lieu thereof parcels of land, on either side or both sides of the roadway or highway from a point at or near Jarman’s Gap and extending generally in a southwesterly direction to the North Carolina line, which roadway or highway the State Highway Commissioner has been heretofore authorized to convey to the United States, and which has been set apart and designated by the United States as the proposed Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway; and to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to transfer, assign and convey to the United States said scenic easements, or land, so acquired, approved March 12, 1936, said Section 2 defining scenic easement and designating said roadway as the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Section 6 vesting the Highway Commissioner with the power of eminent domain; to change the section number of said Section 6 to Section 5 and to prescribe the procedure in condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of the roadway or parkway and lands or scenic easements adjacent thereto. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clarksville, in the county of Mecklenburg, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Clarksville, and to authorize the issue of bonds by said town” approved February 11, 1898. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Richmond county to lease in whole or in part county buildings not necessary for county purposes, and to assign rents accruing therefrom to persons contributing funds for constructing such buildings. |
| An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Shenandoah Valley Academy, at Winchester, to sell and convey to the purchasers, certain lands of said Academy, situated in the western section of said city, the title to which is in said trustees; to authorize said trustees to make and enforce building regulations and to enter into contracts concerning the laying out and grading of certain streets; and to authorize said trustees to apply the proceeds of such sales to the payment of part of the costs of grading such streets and the installation of water and sewer lines, and, to the payment of certain indebtedness of said Academy. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the councils of the cities to provide for the cutting of weeds and other foreign growth on vacant property, approved March 23, 1928, as heretofore amended, so as to confer like powers upon boards of supervisors of certain counties and councils of towns. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3193, 3199, 3208, 3210, 3216, 3223, and 3244 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Commission of Fisheries, the Commissioner of Fisheries, fish, fishing and shellfish; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 3151-a, authorizing the Commission of Fisheries to destroy duplicate and triplicate sets of licenses, and duplicate or triplicate vouchers and invoices, and 3244-a, making returns of employees of the Commission of Fisheries as to posting certain notices conclusive evidence of such posting. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 644 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the re-payment of loans made by school hoards of counties and cities from the literary fund, so as to include certain towns within the provisions of the said section. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to acquire land for county purposes, in addition to the quantity provided for by general law, but not in excess of eighty acres. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2968 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to annexation, property to be included and property not to be included in annexed territory, and persons to be included and persons not to be included in enumeration of population. |
| 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 to declare the necessity of creating governmental subdivisions of the State, to be known as “soil conservation districts’, to engage in conserving soil resources and preventing and controlling soil erosion; to establish the State Soil Conservation Committee, and to define its powers and duties; to provide for the creation of soil conservation districts; to define the powers and duties of soil conservation districts, and to provide for the exercise of such powers, including the power to acquire property by purchase, gift, and otherwise; to empower such districts to adopt programs and regulations for the discontinuance of land-use practices contributing to soil wastage and soil erosion, and the adoption and carrying out of soil-conserving land-use practices, and to provide for the enforcement of such programs and regulations; to provide for establishing boards of adjustment in connection with land-use regulations, and to define their functions and powers; to provide for the discontinuance of such soil conservation districts; to provide for financial assistance to such soil conservation districts; to appropriate funds for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of this act; and for other purposes. |
| An ACT to amend an act entitled, “An act to provide for the assessment of real estate in cities containing more than one hundred and seventy-five thousand inhabitants; to transfer to the assessor or assessors to be provided for pursuant to this act, the duties of the commissioner of revenue in respect to the assessment of real estate; to authorize such assessor or assessors to make up the land books in such cities and to extend the taxes thereon; and to repeal all provisions of law relative to the assessment and equalization of assessments of real estate in cities containing more than one hundred and seventy-five thousand inhabitants” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6564 of the Code of Virginia, making certain liens on property of a householder void, so as to provide that such liens shall be valid when given to obtain money with which to purchase such property. |
| An ACT requiring notice to be given to cities and towns as to claims for damages for negligence. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the governing body of each county; city and town to adopt ordinances licensing and regulating “automobile graveyards” as defined in this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5120 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jointure in bar of dower and effect of conveyance or devise. |
| An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the Governor for and on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to convey to the United States of America, without consideration, all the right, title and interest of the Commonwealth in and to a certain tract of land situated in Rappahannock County and adjoining the Shenandoah National Park, and to prescribe the respective jurisdiction and powers of the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia thereover. |
| An ACT to provide that, in any suit or action in which the title to any lot which was sold, and conveyed to the purchaser, by the trustees of the town of Lovingstown, under the provisions: of “An act establishing a town on the lands of James Loving, in the county of Nelson’, passed January 24, 1809, is brought in question, proof of the continuous actual possession of said lot by the claimants thereof, under color of title or claim of right, through a period of at least fifty years shall raise a prima facie presumption that the building requirements of said act, or of a certain act amendatory thereof, were complied with. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2460 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to the sale of delinquent real estate. |
| An ACT to declare the necessity of creating political subdivision: of the commonwealth with public and corporate powers to be known a: housing authorities to undertake slum clearance and projects to provide dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; to create such housing authorities in cities and in counties; to define the powers and duties 0 housing authorities and to provide for the exercise of such powers, includ. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4998 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appointment of committees for persons convicted of felony. |
| An ACT to provide for fixing, determining and regulating the mini- |
| An ACT to validate substitutions of trustees under deeds recorded in Virginia heretofore made in the courts of Virginia without sufficient notice or without any notice to some one or more of the persons interested in the trusts of such deeds, and to validate acts done by such substituted trustees. |
| An ACT to provide for the processioning of lands in the county |
| An ACT to validate the payment of interest heretofore made on certain notes of the school board of Claremont School District No. 4 of the county of Surry; to validate the said notes for the purpose of and to the extent necessary for liquidation, and to authorize the application of certain funds realized from a special levy made upon the taxable property in the said school district to the liquidation of the said notes. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5191-a, providing that re-possession and sale without legal process of personal property sold under a contract whereby the title thereto or a lien thereon is reserved to secure unpaid purchase money, shall operate to cancel and discharge the amount secured by such contract, including ail unpaid purchase money, and providing that said new section shall not affect |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'An act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals of the Commonwealth' |
| An ACT to prohibit the importation into, or breeding within, the counties of Rappahannock and Culpeper, any German or Belgian Shepherd, or any other dog having one-fourth or more of the blood of either of them; to require persons now owning any such dog within said county to procure from the county treasurer a special license therefor; to prescribe the tax on such license; and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia to sell and convey a certain parcel of land. |
| An ACT to prohibit, upon certain conditions, any person or per-sons from cutting or removing timber from lands designated by the State Highway Commissioner for the Blue Ridge Parkway and prescribing penal- ties for violations of this act, and conferring jurisdiction upon courts to enjoin violations and attempted violations of this act. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered Section 4387-a, the object of which new section being, to provide that, in certain condemnation proceedings instituted by cities or counties under the general provisions of Chapter 176 of the Code of Virginia, and in pursuance of the provisions of Section 3042 of the Code of Virginia, for the acquisition of water works systems |
| An ACT to amend:and:re-enact Section 4447 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to personal property that has been distrainec or levied on. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled "An act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in any county adjacent to a city having a population of thirty thousand, or more, according to the latest United States census; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light, power and gas systems in such districts; to provide for the issuance of bonds to raise funds for establishing of such public utilities in such districts, and to provide for the maintenance thereof, and for the payment of such bonds" |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 36 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, so as, among other things, to provide what alcoholic beverages, materials and other articles shall be deemed contraband and forfeited to the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 64, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896”, in relation to the civil justice and substitute civil justice said city. |
| An ACT to authorize the Governor of Virginia to convey to the City of Richmond for the purpose of widening Belvidere Street, a certain strip or parcel of land adjacent thereto, now being a part of the State Penitentiary property, in return or exchange for two other parcels of land contiguous to the Penitentiary property, to be conveyed to the Commonwealth, and to authorize the State Prison Board to use and utilize said last mentioned two parcels in connection with the Penitentiary and remove from the first mentioned strip or parcel of land all buildings, structures, and walls now situated thereon and reconstruct same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to limitation of actions prevented by defendant, and on foreign contracts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 28, as heretofore amended, of chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, relating to transfers of title to and interest in motor vehicles. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith” |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia to sell and convey a certain piece or parcel of land in the county of Albemarle, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5540 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to emblements and the protection of lessees. |
| An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 265-a, in relation to the assessment of lots in subdivisions of tracts of land. |
| An ACT to provide a new ‘charter’ for the town of Round Hill; in |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the City of Williamsburg and the board of supervisors of the County of James City, to convey or lease to Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated, its successors and assigns, certain property owned by the said city and county. |
| An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the State Hospital Board to convey to the city of Staunton, all the right, title and interest of the Western State Hospital and the Commonwealth of Virginia in and to a perpetual right of way over certain lands, to be used for street and highway purposes. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Appalachia, 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 provide for the correction by the court of erroneous assessments of taxes and local levies against real estate in counties where there had been no general re-assessment of real estate since 1930 and no board of equalization of real estate assessments appointed since 1930. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as heretofore amended, |
| An ACT to validate certain conveyances of real estate in Fairfax county, Virginia, made by the Reverend Dennis J. O’Connell, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia. |
| An ACT prohibiting the entry by courts of judgments in certain cases where service of process or notice is accepted by another than the defendant, unless notice thereof shall have been mailed to such defendant. |
| An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors or other governing bodies in counties to divide the area of counties in the unincorporated portions thereof into one or more districts; to regulate the use of lands and of buildings and other structures; to provide the locations of those areas which may be used as places of residence or in which agriculture, forestry, trade, industry or other specific uses, may be conducted, the height, bulk and size of buildings or other structures, the percentage of land area which may be occupied, and the minimum sizes of yards, courts or other open spaces; to provide for amendments and changes therein; to require county planning commissions to perform certain duties with reference thereto; to permit cooperation between political subdivisions, State and Federal agencies and officials thereof; to permit the appointment and prescribe the powers and duties of county boards of zoning appeals; to provide that this act shall not apply to certain counties heretofore authorized to regulate the use of land and the construction and use of buildings and structures therein; to provide for the enforcement of this act; and to provide penalties for violation of this act. |
