| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 611 and 647, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to minimum school terms, and certain other matters relating to public schools. |
| An ACT to define utility assets, utility securities and public utilities; to regulate the acquisition and disposition of such utility assets and utility securities by such public utilities; to prescribe the powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission with reference thereto; and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act. |
| An Act to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 3, 4, and 9 of the Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as heretofore amended, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act |
| An ACT to confer upon the State Highway Commissioner the power of eminent domain for the purpose of condemning certain lands and materials for use in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of the public highways of the State, to prescribe the procedure therefor, to provide for the taking of lands and materials in certain cases before the institution of condemnation proceedings, to provide for compensating owners and lessees of lands and materials taken pursuant to this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith. |
| An Act to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1941, and the thirtieth day of June, 1942, 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 amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 2854-a, authorizing the governing bodies of the several counties to acquire necessary lands for certain sewage disposal purposes at county seats, by eminent domain proceedings or otherwise. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 401 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale and distribution of State publications, so as to provide for the distribution of certain publications to subscribers. |
| An Act to Authorize the Transfer of Certain Roads Between the Primary and Secondary Systems of State Highways in Augusta County |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2737 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the board of supervisors compromising judgments of claims against county treasurers and ex-treasurers and their sureties |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 6, 8, 13, and 14 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, and known, designated and cited as the 'Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act,’ said sections relating to benefits, claims for benefits, employers’ coverage, the unemployment compensation administration fund, taxes, the collection of taxes and the authorization of certain refunds. |
| An ACT to enable counties, cities and towns to borrow money and issue bonds therefor; prescribing the mode of procedure for, and regulating the issuance of such bonds, and providing for the payment thereof; authorizing agreements with the holders of such bonds and providing for the remedies of such holders; also to secure the benefits of any agency of the United States of America, now or hereafter created, delegating powers to contract debts; and repealing inconsistent provisions of all laws, general or special, of the Commonwealth. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19f, 28a, 29 and 37 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond |
| An ACT to validate elections heretofore held for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of any county the question of issuing county bonds for the purpose of funding indebtedness incurred by the county school board for school purposes, and to validate county bonds issued by county school boards pursuant to any such election. |
| An ACT to fix the boundaries of ‘‘Bellmeade Sanitary District Number One of Chesterfield County, Virginia.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 545 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, regulating the burning of, and prohibiting during certain periods and under certain conditions setting fire to or procuring another to set fire to, woods, brush, logs, leaves, grass, debris, and other inflammable material, and providing penalties for violations of the section. |
| An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 35, 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, in relation to registration, license and other fees, and to add a new Section 35-a, relating to the cooperation by the State Highway Commission with the Public Roads Administration and the American Association of State Highway Officials. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 211 of the Tax Code relating to franchise taxes on certain corporations and others |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 33 thereof a new section numbered 698, providing for the levying of taxes and appropriating money in counties, cities and towns for public school purposes, and to repeal Section 698-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters. |
| An ACT to add to the primary system of State highways certain roads in the several State parks, and to add to the secondary system of State highways certain roads leading from State highways to public school buildings. |
| 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 construct, reconstruct, maintain, alter, improve, add to and operate water supply systems; to acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease, or otherwise, water supply system or systems; to furnish water from any such system to any sanitary district, village, town, community, individuals, firm, corporation or partnership; to make such charge for the supply of water herein authorized as the board may from time to time determine upon; to lay a levy for the purpose of raising funds for the construction, maintenance, operation, improvement and reconstruction of any such water system or systems or to appropriate from the general county fund for such purposes; to contract for a loan and to issue bonds for the purpose of construction, acquisition, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance and operation of any such water system on the credit of the county, provided, that such borrowing power shall not exist, and the loan shall not be contracted for or bonds issued unless and until the action of the Board of Supervisors determining to construct, maintain and operate or acquire, reconstruct, improve such water system shall be certified to the judge of the Circuit Court of said county and petitioning the said judge to call an election for the purpose of obtaining the approval of such loan and bond issue by the qualified voters of the county, and prescribing the duties of the judge of the said Circuit Court of said county; prescribing the duties of the regular election officers, and prescribing the duties and powers of the Board of Supervisors. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, Coroners and constables. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘An act to authorize boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to enter into certain agreements for the purpose of providing for their respective counties, cities and towns paintings, carvings, sculpture and other works of art; and for such purposes to authorize such boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies to furnish materials, services and supplies and to appropriate and expend money, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4 and 5 of an act which, by amendment and re-enactment of title to, and provisions of, an act approved March 23, 1918, Chapter 408, Acts of 1918, as thereafter amended pertaining to prevention of unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain ‘securities’ |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘‘An act to abolish all school districts in the counties of Roanoke, Pittsylvania and Pulaski, and establish each such county as the unit for all school purposes except representation; to prescribe the composition of the county school boards of said counties; to transfer to, and vest in the county school boards all property acquired, and in any way held, for the use of special town school districts in said counties; to require the county school boards to assume, and provide for the payment of all bonds and other valid obligations of all school districts; to prohibit the issuing of any bonds or creating of any other form of indebtedness as a charge against any school districts; to prohibit district levies for any school purpose; to provide for county levies for all necessary school purposes, including capital expenditures and the payment of indebtedness; to provide for transferring to the county school boards all balances of school funds in the hands of, or standing to the credit of school districts and/or special or separate town district school boards; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act, and to provide for approval of this act by the school boards and boards of supervisors of said counties before the same shall become effective.’’ |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Holland, in the county of Nansemond, and to repeal the charter provided for said town by chapter 1047 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1899-1900, approved March 7, 1900, and all amendments thereof, or of any part thereof. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 109 thereof 13 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 2726-1, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 31 and 39, as amended, of an act entitled ‘An act to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.’ |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county adjoining a city having a population of more than 100,000 and less than 150,000, according to the last preceding United States census, to levy a special assessment in any magisterial district for fire protection, lights, drainage and other improvements, and to validate levies heretofore made for such purposes. |
| An ACT to provide for the sterilization of all bottles, jugs, cans, barrels and containers used in the packing, bottling, storage, distribution and sale of non-alcoholic beverage and drink products |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 of an act entitled ‘An act to provide a new charter for the town of Pearisburg, Virginia, and to repeal all acts in conflict,’ |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'An act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of counties adjacent to counties having a density of population in excess of five hundred inhabitants per square mile, to lay a special levy annually, for fire protection' |
| An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county adjoining a city having a population of not less than 100,000 nor more than 150,000 inhabitants, to release, upon certain conditions, the liability for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid county and district taxes upon real estate for the year 1939 and all previous years, and to release officers charged with the collection of such taxes from liability for such interest, penalties and costs, upon certain conditions. |
| An ACT to abolish the office of superintendent of the poor of the county of Bland. |
| An ACT to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the general laws of Virginia relating to mines, mining, quarries, quarrying, the Division of Mines, and the State Mine Inspector |
| An ACT to authorize the Town of Halifax in Halifax County to issue bonds of said Town in an amount not exceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) for the purpose of constructing and providing a Sewer System for the Town of Halifax, and to provide for the levy of a tax to pay the interest on said bonds and retire the same as they mature. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Section 9 of an Act Relating to the Maintenance and Improvement of Certain Roads, and to Add a New Section Numbered 11-b Authorizing the Transfer of Roads from the Secondary System to the Primary System of State Highways |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 35, 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, said section relating to the registration fees. |
| An ACT to provide a complete form of county organization and government for counties in this State adjoining a county having a density of population of 600 or more per square mile according to the last preceding United States Census, and to prescribe the conditions upon which such form of county organization and government shall become effective in any such county and may thereafter be discontinued. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.”, approved March 26, 1928, relating to the powers of the said town, so as to make further provisions with reference to town cemeteries. |
| An ACT validating certain outstanding indebtedness of the City of Hampton, Virginia, incurred for the dredging of Hampton Harbor and certain outstanding indebtedness of the City of Hampton, Virginia, incurred for the purchase of a site for a City Hall and the building of a City Hall in the City of Hampton, Virginia, and authorizing said city to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of refunding such indebtedness and certain funds to the general fund of the said city, and to require the council of said city annually to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5904-g of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees and costs to be collected on cases tried by county courts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4694 of the Code of Virginia, relating to forfeiture of money and things of value drawn or received or proposed to be drawn in a lottery, so as to include money and personal property used in connection with the promotion, operation and conduct of a lottery or attempted lottery. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 7 of the Act to Provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5 and 11 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as amended and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act, said sections relating to disqualifications for benefits, and to administration of said act. |
| An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors and other governing bodies of the counties to release upon certain conditions the liability for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid county and district taxes upon real estate for the year 1938 and all previous years, and to release officers charged with the collection of such taxes from liability for such interest, penalties and costs, |
| 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, and to provide for a referendum. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3079 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the purposes for which cities and towns may issue bonds, and to the amount of such bonds. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the Chairman of the State Highway Commission to execute, in the name of the Commonwealth, deeds conveying sections of roads or other property deemed no longer necessary for the uses of the State Highway System |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 394 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the printing and distribution of the reports of State departments and agencies, so as to provide that the same, with certain exceptions, shall be edited and condensed, and printed and distributed bi-ennially in consolidated form. |
| An ACT to authorize the boards of county supervisors of certain counties to invest sinking funds in bonds of the United States, the State of Virginia, or of any county, city, town or district in the State of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘“‘An act to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security and at a low rate of interest.”’ |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 284 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1930, authorizing the Councils of cities and Boards of Supervisors of counties to make appropriations for the relief of firemen totally and permanently disabled by injury received in the line of duty. |
| An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of Article X of Chapter 446 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1930, relating to the appropriation of money by counties, cities and towns to the national guard and naval militia. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the Virginia Conservation Commission to convey to the former grantors thereof, their heirs, devisees, assigns or successors in title, certain lands in Smyth county acquired by the said Commission as a right of way for a road from Lee Highway to Hungry Mother State Park, and no longer needed for such purpose. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8-a of an Act entitled, ‘‘An Act requiring persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used as common carriers for the transportation of persons and/or property for compensation on the public highways of this State to obtain registration plates or markers, and prescribing and imposing certain taxes and/or license fees and/or charges and providing for the collection, payment and disposition of the same, and providing for the enforcement of this act and for punishment of violations thereof,’’ approved March 26, 1932. |
| An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to issue bonds, notes or other obligations of said city in exchange for bonds, notes or other obligations held in the sinking funds of said city in order to assure a more uniform annual debt service charge for the retirement of outstanding bonded indebtedness, and to regulate the annual contributions to such sinking funds and the maturities of serial bonds hereafter issued by said city of Norfolk. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 350 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to county finance board and depositories for county funds. |
| An ACT validating, ratifying, approving and confirming the creation of Sanitary District No. 5 in Henrico County, Virginia |
| An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of any county having a population of more than 300 inhabitants per square mile and less than six hundred persons per square mile under certain conditions, to establish and equip a fire department for any such county or any magisterial district thereof, with certain exceptions and to make provision for a water supply for fire fighting purposes; and to provide for the holding of a certain election and for the laying of certain levies under certain conditions. |
| An ACT to provide for better sanitation in and around Hampton Roads; to provide for and create the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, in which shall function the Hampton Roads Sanitation Commission, and other sanitation districts and commissions in said area; to declare the necessity therefor and benefits thereof; to provide the boundaries of said districts; to appropriate $50,000.00 for each year of the biennium beginning July first, nineteen hundred and forty to the Hampton Roads Sanitation Commission for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of law applicable thereto and paying obligations of the Hampton Roads Sewage Disposal Commission; and to repeal an act approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and an act approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, as amended, both with respect to Hampton Roads Sewage Disposal Commission, and an act approved March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, with respect to Hampton Roads Sanitation District. |
| AN ACT validating, ratifying, approving and confirming proceedings heretofore taken, and elections heretofore held, to provide for and relative to the authorization, issuance, sale, execution and delivery of bonds by or on behalf of sanitary districts. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 668-a, authorizing the operation, by local school boards, of vacation schools and summer camps. |
| An ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board to convey to J. A. Overbay all the right, title and interest of the Southwestern State Hospital and the Commonwealth of Virginia in and to two certain tracts of land near Marion in Smyth County, and to use the money received from such sale in the purchase of certain other lands in said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1132, 1133, 1134, as heretofore amended, 1135, 1136 and 1137 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the registration, inspection, analysis, offering for sale and sale of agricultural lime so as, among other purposes, to make the same applicable to liming materials. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections.353, 354. and.355 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the deposit of certain public records in the State Library |
| An ACT to ratify and validate, for all purposes, an issue of $750,000 of certificates of indebtedness of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg, issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 58 of Chapter 428 (the Appropriation Act) of the Acts of 1938, which are now owned and held as a part of the State Literary Fund, to authorize the sale of same to the general public by the State Board of Education, and to validate and re-enact all of the provisions of said Section 58. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 7, 17 and 19 of Chapter 335 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, and known, designated and cited as the ‘Sanitation Districts Law of 1938” |
| AN ACT to provide for the establishment, maintenance and administration of a system of pensions and retirements for the benefit of the personnel of police departments of counties, cities or towns having paid members of such departments; to provide for the creation of policemen’s pension and retirement boards and prescribe their powers and duties; to provide for assessments against and deductions from salaries to raise funds for purposes of said boards; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith. |
| An ACT to validate $55,500.00 of 2 per cent general obligation bonds issued by the city of Williamsburg, in pursuance of an ordinance of the City Council, and of an election on the question, held on November 7, 1939, the proceeds of said bonds to be used in connection with the erection of a public school building in said city, for colored children. |
| An ACT validating certain outstanding indebtedness of the Town of Phoebus, Virginia, and authorizing said Town of Phoebus, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of refunding such indebtedness and to require the council of said town annually to levy taxes to pay the interest on the said new bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity. |
