| An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to release certain penalties, interest and costs on real property taxes, under certain conditions. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Supervisors of any county which adjoins a county having a population of 1,000 per square mile, or more, as shown by the last preceding United States Census, to appoint an executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of such executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of the board of supervisors and certain other county officers in relation thereto; to prohibit certain county officers, employees and other persons from being interested in transactions in which the county is interested, and making such transactions void; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act. |
| An ACT to provide for a temporary addition to the regular cash compensation of certain State officers and employees, and to prescribe how such additional cash compensation shall be computed and paid; to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act; and to authorize the Governor under certain conditions to terminate such payments by Executive Order. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 653-a 2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school districts and special school districts, and school boards. |
| An ACT for the relief of George P. Browning et als. |
| An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to require licenses and impose and collect license taxes on certain motor vehicles used as taxicabs or for the transportation of passengers for a consideration. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5 and 9, as amended, of Chapter 212 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 23, 1932, relating to taxes on motor fuel, and penalty for failure to make certain reports. |
| An ACT to authorize the County of Orange to assume and pay a certain debt of one of its magisterial districts, and to provide means by which the voters of the county may approve or reject same. |
| An ACT to provide facilities and opportunity for absentee voting by Virginia members of the armed forces of the United States and certain affiliated services by making certain temporary changes in the primary and general election laws of the State relating to the nomination and election of members of the General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General, and all county and city officers, with respect to (a) the effect of failure to register and pay poll taxes by said members upon their eligibility to vote; (b) the furnishing of absentee ballots to all qualified members; (c) the time within which candidates for said offices shall qualify so as to have their names printed on the official ballots, and (d) the time for and method of printing said ballots and the distribution thereof; and to limit the duration of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1887-h of the Code of Virginia relating to Division of Mines, and to duties of the mine inspector as inspector of weights and measures for certain purposes. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 18 as amended, 25 and 28 as amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, known as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 675 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to certain loans to school boards. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 3387-a, providing for copying of certain records in office of clerks of court under certain circumstances. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 20, 25, 37, 40, 47 and 49 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, which provided a new charter for the City of Clifton Forge, relating to powers of council, taxation, issuance of bonds, disbursements, licenses and Commonwealth's Attorney. |
| An ACT to authorize the Attorney General to institute mandamus proceedings in the Supreme Court of Appeals in certain cases and under certain circumstances to secure an adjudication by said Court respecting the construction, interpretation or constitutionality of Acts of the General Assembly which direct or require the payment of appropriations of the State Treasury, and to empower said Court to render a final adjudication of said questions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4676 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to keeping gaming tables, et cetera, and for forfeiture thereof, to provide that the court may award certain tables and other paraphernalia to charitable organizations or war recreation centers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 as amended, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15-a as amended, of Chapter 431, Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, relating to the establishment of a State Registration Board for Contractors, defining its powers and duties, providing for certificates of registration, fees, distribution of moneys, suspension and cancellation of certificates, prescribing punishment for violations, all as to the conduct of the business of contracting, in order to make certain changes in the scope and applicability of certain provisions of the act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 657 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to making of annual estimate of expenses of operation of public schools and levies therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 44, 82, and 286 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the time for filing tax returns. |
| An ACT to provide for the editing, publication and distribudiore oF periodical for the dissemination, upon certain conditions, of certain official mat- |
| An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns to establish and maintain post-war public works reserve funds, and to expend same; to formulate, develop and revise capital budgets and schedules for long range, post-war programs of public works projects. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4928 and 6007 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the pay and mileage of jurors. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for tt |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4537-b of the Code of Virginia, making it a crime to call or summon, without just cause, certain emergency conveyances or fire-fighting apparatus. |
| An ACT to create the Virginia World War II History Commission |
| An ACT to authorize governing bodies of counties and cities to provide for licensing bicycles; to prescribe fees therefor; to require license plates or tags to be procured and attached, and to prescribe penalties for operating a bicycle without a license plate or tag attached thereto. |
| An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties, cities or towns to release upon certain conditions the liability for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid taxes upon real estate for the year 1940 and all previous years, and to release officers charged with the duty of collection of these taxes from liability for such interest, penalties and costs, upon certain conditions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-m, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees taxable by trial justices, so as to provide for taxing Commonwealth’s attorney’s fees in criminal and juvenile and domestic relations cases. |
| A Joint RESOLUTION proposing amendments to Sections 73 and 134 of the Constitution of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 62, as amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia”, such section relating to speed limits for motor vehicles and unlawful driving, so as to permit the Governor by executive order to increase the maximum speed limits of certain motor vehicles, and to remove a provision making the section null and void after a specified date. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 541 of the Code, as amended, relating to forests, so as to impose upon the several counties the obligation to make certain annual payments into the State Treasury for the purpose of protection of forests, especially from the ravages of fire, and to prescribe the effective date thereof. |
| An ACT to transfer jurisdiction and control of a part of the land here- to-fore devoted to the use of the Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children to the State Highway Commission to be used as a part of State Highway Route No. 610, Elizabeth City County. |
| An ACT to ratify the action of the Governor of Virginia and the Chairman of the Virginia Conservation Commission in entering into a compact with the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of Tennessee relating to the establishment of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, and to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission to carry out the provisions of said compact. |
| An ACT to authorize depositories of county funds of Charlotte County to deposit with the State Treasurer securities to protect such deposits, and to prescribe how controversies with respect to such securities shall be heard and determined. |
| An ACT to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, who may act through the State Entomologist, to inspect, treat, remove or destroy trees having Dutch elm disease, which is declared to be a public nuisance; to make it the duty of the owner of the land on which such diseased trees are found to treat or to destroy them; to make it a misdemeanor for any person to interfere with or hinder the persons making such inspection, or treating, removing or destroying the diseased trees; and to require the owner thereof to pay the expense of their removal, treatment or destruction, and to provide for appeal from orders of officer. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower Mary Washington College to grant to Virginia Electric and Power Company certain easements of right of way on, over and across the property of the College in the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 30 of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, short title of which is Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938, relating to financial aid to dependent children in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3405 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to reports by clerks of the business of courts of record. |
| An ACT for the relief of the heirs of Mary Riddick. |
| To provide for certain credit to the owner and operator of a motor vehicle truck, who paid the license fee thereon, and was unable to operate the truck for the full license year by reason of his being inducted into the armed forces of the United States. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 683, 684, 685 and 686, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compulsory school attendance, providing methods for enforcing attendance of certain children at public schools, records and reports and the duties of certain officers relating thereto, and providing penalties for violation. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 4, 11 and 13, as amended, of Chapter 214 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 19, 1926, relating to the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and other State farms, so as to permit persons confined in local jails to be transferred to and maintained at such farm or farms, to provide a per diem allowance for certain prisoners confined at State farms, and to prescribe the daily per capita allowance for maintaining prisoners at the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and other State farms. |
| A Joint RESOLUTION proposing amendment to Section 183 of the Constitution of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3503 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of sheriffs and sergeants for attendance on courts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2184, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the issuance of duplicate warrants under certain circumstances. |
| An ACT to repeal Sections 1936, 1937 and 1938 in Chapter 80 of the Code of Virginia, relating to desertion and non-support; to amend the Code by adding in Chapter 80 seven new Sections numbered 1936, 1936-a, 1937, 1937-a, 1937-b, 1937-c and 1938, relating to the same subjects, to contain, with certain amendments, the same matters as the sections of the Code repealed and as contained in Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, as amended, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, which relate to the same subjects : and to repeal Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, and all amendments thereof, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, relating to the same subjects. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An Act to authorize and empower the Governor and State Treasurer, jointly, to make certain investments of current funds in the State Treasury, the expenditure of which is not required for the current needs of the State." |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled "An Act to provide for the relief of volunteer firemen of Fairfax county killed or injured while engaged in fighting fires or in going to or returning therefrom." |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 395 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2096 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of certain misdemeanants on the State convict road force, so as to provide for a per diem allowance to such misdemeanants. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 19r and 105, as heretofore amended, and Sections 30 and 102 of an act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926. |
| An ACT to require the school board of any county having an area and population within certain respective designated limitations to employ school attendance officers, prescribing their duties, and making certain violations of the provisions thereof misdemeanors and prescribing the punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to validate certain pay-roll checks of the Department of Highways, fraudulently obtained and used by William E. Cocke, a foreman on certain highway work, which were cashed and are now held by The Farmers National Bank of Salem. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 6, 8 and 9 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to the compensation and expenses of sheriffs and sergeants, the feeding and care of jail prisoners and the payment of the costs thereof, the method of keeping and certifying accounts covering such costs, the furnishing of unusual medical, hospital and dental service to prisoners, and prohibiting the use of prisoners in certain instances. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 11, 12-a and 12-b of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926, as amended, relating to sanitary districts in certain counties, so as to include additional counties within the provisions of the chapter, to permit investments of sinking funds in certain bonds, to authorize bond issues by small districts within any such sanitary district, and to prescribe the rights of certain persons whose property is taken or used for improvements in sanitary districts and to further amend such chapter by adding thereto a new section numbered 3-a conferring additional powers as to such districts on boards of supervisors. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1579 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the fees of local registrars of vital statistics. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to regional jail farms, so as to limit such farms to male prisoners, to provide that prisoners may be required to work at such farms, and to prescribe how such prisoners may work out certain fines and costs. |
| An ACT to transfer the jurisdiction and control of certain parcels of land in Smyth County from the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to the State Highway Commission, and to authorize the latter agency to use said lands as a part of State Highway Route No. 16. |
| An ACT for the relief of Wilbur D. Chaplin. |
| An ACT to provide for the regulation of the rates and charges of taxicabs in certain counties, and to provide certain penalties for violation. |
| An ACT to authorize the governing body of certain counties to levy assessments upon property owners in sanitary districts in such counties for the cost of certain public improvements, to prescribe procedure for the assessment and collection of the costs so assessed, and to confer certain powers upon the governing bodies of such counties in connection with the improvements and the assessments so made. |
| An ACT for the relief of H. Elmer Kiser. |
| An ACT to permit the creation of regional planning commissions ; to pro- |
| An ACT to continue the Marine laboratory under the name of the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory and provide for its operation, to provide for the appointment of an advisory group in connection with such laboratory, and to prescribe the duties and functions of the group when appointed. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 383, 384, 401-b, 401-e and 401-j of the Code of Virginia, relating to awarding contracts for printing and for paper, centralized purchasing, competitive bidding, disposition of moneys collected and other matters pertaining to the functions of the Division of Purchase and Printing. |
| An ACT to authorize the Commissioner of Corrections to furnish prison labor for farm work in certain emergencies. |
| An ACT to provide a new Charter for the Town of McKenney, in the County of Dinwiddie, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower the Governor to execute in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia a deed conveying, subject to the jurisdictional and other limitations and reservations contained in Section 19-a and Section 19-b of the Code of Virginia, to the United States of America, six parcels of vacant and unappropriated land containing a total of two hundred and thirteen and eight-tenths acres situate in Bedford and Botetourt Counties. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3783 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the creation and increase by corporations of bonded indebtedness to be secured by lien on their property or franchises. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2 and 8 of Chapter 375 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 1, 1942, to extend the time in which the development of projects may be initiated thereunder. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 228 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to water, heat, light and power companies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 275 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the assessment of mineral lands. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 58 of Chapter 34 of the Acts of 1918, entitled “An act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 13, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk.”, approved the 7th day of February, 1918, relating to the Department of Public Welfare of the city of Norfolk. |
| An ACT to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission to accept from the Trustees of the Slemp Foundation, created by the will of the late C. Bascom Slemp, a collection of books, printings, and museum pieces, to be known as the “Southwest Virginia Museum”; to operate the same with funds donated by the said Trustees, or others, for that purpose; to enter into agreements with the State Library Board for joint operation of said museum and a public library, and to appropriate money for the purchase of a building in which to house said museum and carry on said activities. |
| An ACT to transfer the jurisdiction and control of a certain tract of land in Roanoke County from the State Board of Health to the State Highway Commission and to authorize the latter agency to use said land for highway purposes. |
| An ACT to provide for the submission of proposed amendments to Sections 73 and 134 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 re-enact Section 363 of the Code of Virginia, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board for the Certification of Librarians. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 161, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926, providing for the creation of sanitary districts |
| An ACT to provide for the recordation by clerks of courts of counties and cities, in a book or books to be designated “Induction and Discharge Record, World War II”, of certain information relating to residents thereof who are serving or have served in the armed forces of the United States in World War II, and to prescribe how the expenses of such recording shall be paid. |
| An ACT to require and to provide for the effectuation and maintenance of certain public liability and property damage insurance on vehicles engaging in transportation of school pupils and personnel to and from schools. |
| An ACT to further the interests of national security by authorizing the State Highway Commission at the request of the Army and Navy Departments, Public Roads Administration or other agency of the United States, to construct and maintain or cooperate in the construction and maintenance of flight strips, airfields, and roads leading thereto and to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the power of eminent domain such property as may be needed for such purposes; to authorize the conveyance of such flight strips, airfields and roads to, or the use of the same by, the United States; and to authorize the sale and conveyance of property acquired, but no longer needed, for such flight strips, airhelds or roads, and to declare an emergency. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Middleburg, in Loudoun County, Virginia; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 355 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1942, prescribing, for the State Corporation Commission and the State Highway Commission, certain powers and duties relating to aviation and aviation facilities. |
| 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 32 of Chapter 288 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, which provides a new charter for the town of Salem, the section relating to appropriation ordinance and levy; and to repeal Section 28 of that chapter, which section relates to an annual budget. |
| An ACT to authorize the Medical College of Virginia to issue and sell certificates of indebtedness to meet certain existing indebtedness, to prescribe how such certificates shall be secured, issued, sold, or otherwise disposed of, and to provide a sinking fund to retire such certificates at maturity, |
| An ACT to authorize the governing body of any city having a population within certain stated limitations to elect one or more assessors to assess and equalize real estate assessments in the city, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the assessors. |
| An ACT to authorize and direct the State Highway Commission and the State Highway Commissioner to prepare a twenty-year plan for the development, improvement, maintenance and enlargement of the primary and secondary systems of State Highways, and to make report thereof to the Governor and the General Assembly. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as amended, of Chapter 457 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 24, 1920, which act amended and re-enacted, as amended, an act entitled “An Act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers.” |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3042-a, authorizing counties, cities and towns having the right of eminent domain to exercise the right of condemnation in the same manner as is prescribed by law for condemnation proceedings instituted by the State Highway Commission. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 351 of the Code of Virginia (as it amended former Section 360 of the Code), relating to The Library Board, appointment, terms, certain powers and duties, and so forth. |
| An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation land, easements, rights of way or ether interest in land adjacent to or near land needed for any highway project and to convey the same to public utility companies to be used by them in lieu of other land, easements, rights of way or other interest in land owned by them but needed for such highway project; to give the State Highway Commissioner certain powers with respect to such property. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4, as amended, of Chapter 335 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the “Sanitation Districts Law of nineteen hundred thirty-eight”, relating to the incorporation of sanitation districts and the creation of sanitation district commissions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1006 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the State Hospital Board and certain of its powers and duties, so as to make certain changes in the per diem expenses of members. |
| An ACT to authorize the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to harvest and sell timber from its land under certain circumstances. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 935 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 350 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 31, 1942, providing for State aid in the development of public library services, so as to authorize the State Library Board to grant from appropriations made for this purpose funds for aiding certain libraries and library systems, peroutarly in rural communities, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the State Library Board and of certain other persons with respect to the expenditure of funds appropriated for such State aid. |
| An ACT to amend Chapter 380 of the Acts of the Assembly of 1940, as amended, relating to the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the State Highway Commissioner, so as to add a new section thereto, designated as Section 7, providing certain remedies to landowners whose property has been entered upon by the State Highway Commissioner under Section 4 and Section 6 of Chapter 380 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, as amended. |
| An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to maintain all roads within the boundaries of State parks. |
