Public expenditures

1958
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-79.7 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide for a maximum interest rate of six per centum on bonds issued by Produce Market Authorities.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2-135.1 of the Code of Virginia relating to reports to be filed by certain public bodies and political subdivisions with the Auditor of Public Accounts, so as to require financial statements to be published by such public bodies and political subdivisions.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 58-65.1, authorizing cities and counties to impose a city or county recordation tax in addition to the State recordation tax.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 11-23.1, requiring certain optional specifications in contracts for public buildings.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 11-20, as amended, and 11-23 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the letting of public contracts and conditions thereupon.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 2-1, 2-160, 2-160.1, 2-162, 2-211 through 2-213, 2-215 through 2-217, 2-218.1, 2-219, 2-220, 2-221 as amended, 2-222 through 2-227, 2-228 as amended, 2-229, 2-280, 2-282 as amended, 2-288 through 2-235, 2-286 as amended, 2-237, 2-288, 2-289.1, 2-240 as amended, 2-242, 2-248, 2-244 as amended, 2-245, 2-246 as amended, 2-247 as amended, 2-249 through 2-255, 2-257, 2-258, 2-259.2 as amended, 2-260, 2-262 as amended, 2-263, 2-265 through 2-268, 53-68, 53-69 and 58-78 of the Code of Virginia, relating to purchase and printing generally, so as to create the Department of Purchases and Supply and prescribe its powers and duties.
An Act to permit the joint exercise of powers by political subdivisions of this State; to provide for agreements to carry out such powers, and the contents thereof; to prescribe the effect of such agreements; and to permit the furnishing of funds, personnel and services to administrative agencies provided for by such agreements.
An Act to amend and reenact § 11, as amended, of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 11, 1946, which provided for police and firemen’s pensions and benefits in certain counties, the section relating to investment of funds.
An Act to create a commission to commemorate the centennial of the American Civil War; to provide for the selection and terms of office of the members of such commission; to provide for the duties and powers of such commission; and to appropriate funds for the use of such commission.
An Act to amend and reenact § 29-209, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to disposition of dog fund.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 8-6.1, to create the Agricultural Research and Education Commission, to provide for the membership, powers, terms of office, and duties thereof, and to provide for the expenditure of the Agricultural Research and Education Fund.
An Act to amend and reenact § 62-106.12 of the Code of Virginia, to provide for a maximum interest rate of six per centum on bonds issued by the Virginia State Ports Authority.
An Act providing for the organization of a Parking Authority as a public body and body politic and corporate by the town of Fairfax, in the Commonwealth of Virginia; authorizing and empowering the Authority to acquire, construct, reconstruct, equip, improve, extend, enlarge, maintain, repair and operate off-street parking facilities; providing for the issuance of revenue bonds of the Parking Authority, payable solely from revenues, to pay all or any part of the cost of such parking facilities; granting to the Authority power to acquire necessary real and personal property and to exercise the power of eminent domain; providing for the imposition and collection of rates, rentals, fees and charges for the use of and for the services furnished by the parking facilities; authorizing the issuance of revenue refunding bonds; exempting from taxation and assessment such bonds and the parking facilities and the income therefrom; and prescribing the powers and duties of the Authority in connection with the foregoing and the rights and remedies of the holders of any bonds issued under the provisions of this act.
AN ACT to create a Commission for Economy in Governmental Expenditures; to provide for the membership thereof, their terms of office, their compensation, and the powers and duties of the Commission; to require agencies of the State to assist the Commission; to provide for the appointment of advisory committees by the Commission; to require certain reports from the Commission; and to appropriate funds.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 45 of the Acts of Assembly of 1958, approved February 18, 1958, relating to referenda to require the governing bodies of certain counties to lay a uniform levy for school purposes in lieu of district levies.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-201 of the Code of Virginia, relating to construction, maintenance and operation of detention facilities for juveniles.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-792.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the extension of time for completion of assessments in certain counties, and to declare an emergency.
An Act to authorize the Governor and the Attorney General to execute, in the name of the Commonwealth, a deed conveying unto the United States of America certain formerly submerged lands in the James River at Newport News, Virginia.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4-15 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the operation of government stores for the sale of alcoholic beverages, other than beer, by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, to provide for the sale of certain alcoholic beverages to certain Federal instrumentalities of the United States Department of Defense at discount prices in certain quantities, and to permit the sale and transportation of up to three gallons of alcoholic beverages under certain conditions.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 68-869.1, so as to permit an allowance for work done by wards of the four State training schools and to appropriate funds.
An Act to require the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to establish and operate a meat inspection service; and to this end to amend and reenact §§ 8-676.1, 8-676.2, 8-676.8, and 8-676.5 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 8-676.4:1 and 8-676.4:2, the amended and new sections providing for the transfer from the State Department of Health to the Commissioner and Department of Agriculture and Immigration of certain powers, duties, and functions in relation to meat inspection, to authorize the Board of Agriculture and Immigration to make certain rules and regulations, to exempt from further inspection meat and meat products meeting State and Federal inspection requirements, to authorize political subdivisions of the State to require the inspection of certain fresh dressed meat and meat products, at their own expense, to exempt from inspection and from the requirements of any local ordinance sales of cured meat, and to provide for payment of costs of State meat inspection.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 58-715 as amended, 58-719, 58-730 as amended, and 58-780.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to refunds of tax on motor fuels, procedure therefor, disposition of funds collected, and restrictions on use of certain tax proceeds.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 83-40.1, to prohibit business enterprises on certain property.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 2-87, 4-20, 33-11.1, 52-11 and 56-3384 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to defense of certain State officials and employees in certain civil litigation and certain criminal prosecution, and to appointment, powers and duties of certain agents, inspectors and investigators authorized to enforce the State motor vehicle laws, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 58-16.1, authorizing the appointment of counsel to represent certain guards in certain proceedings.
An Act to amend and reenact § 28-a, as amended, of Chapter 875 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, being the charter of the city of Radford, relating to the appointment of special justices for the city.
AN ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board, subject to the approval of the Governor, to construct or acquire and maintain and operate a sewage disposal plant for Southwestern State Hospital, or to do so jointly, under certain conditions, with the town of Marion.
An Act to amend and reenact § 2-262, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to counties, cities, towns and political subdivisions seeking aid of the Comptroller in purchasing material, equipment and supplies
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-304.9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the temporary emergency operation of certain motor vehicles without a registration card or identification marker.
An Act to amend and reenact § 14-28.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation of members of the General Assembly; and to a
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-605.10 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to investment of proceeds of certain bond issues pending application to authorized purpose.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto three new sections numbered §§ 8-208.1, 19-185.1 and 19-198.1, relating to the payment of compensation, fees, mileage and allowances for jurors, grand jurors and jury commissioners selected or appointed for the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-764.12, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of water and sewer authorities.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-792 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when the recordation of plats of subdivisions shall constitute the transfer of portions of the premises for public use.
An Act to require the State Library Board to erect an historical marker to the twenty-seven unknown Confederate soldiers killed in the battle of Haw’s Shop in Hanover County; and to appropriate funds.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-18, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to local regulation of automobile graveyards; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38-279.8, prohibiting establishment of automobile graveyards except under certain conditions; requiring the erection of fences or hedges around certain automobile graveyards; providing for enforcement, and prescribing penalties.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding § 46-340.1 thereto relating to the reduction of weight, size and speed of vehicles on certain highways and streets, and to repeal §§ 46-340 and 46-341 relating to the same subject.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 22-206 of the Code of Virginia, to exempt therefrom persons regularly employed by any school board prior to the inception of certain relationships.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 17 as amended, of Chapter 89 of the Acts of Assembly of 1982, approved February 20, 1982, which provided a new charter for the city of Winchester, relating to the powers of the council with respect to laying out streets.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 8-24.1, relating to the time within which an action may be brought for damages suffered as the result of the treatment of public water supplies by fluoridation.
An Act to amend and reenact § 26-40, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to securities in which fiduciaries may invest.
An Act to provide a charter for the town of Lebanon and to repeal Chapter 96, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1872-78, in force February 21, 1878, which incorporated the town of Lebanon.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 15-764.12, as amended, and 15-764.13 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of water and sewer authorities and imposing certain limitations thereon.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 14-77.1, relating to the manner of payment of certain items contained in the budgets of county and city treasurers and commissioners of the revenue.
An Act to create the Jamestown Foundation; to provide for the appointment of the board of trustees thereof; to prescribe the powers, duties and functions of such Foundation; to authorize the use of money and property; to authorize the acquisition of property by lease, gift, purchase or condemnation by such Foundation; to provide for the receipt and disbursement of funds; to appropriate funds; and to repeal Chapter 449, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, approved April 8, 1954, creating the Virginia 850th Anniversary Celebration Commission.
AN ACT to require the Comptroller, through the Division of Purchase and Printing, to maintain a stock of flags of the Commonwealth of Virginia for sale to the public.
AN ACT to authorize towns to tax and collect as part of the costs in criminal cases involving violations of the ordinances of such towns the costs of transporting persons arrested for violating, or convicted of violating, such ordinances to a jail or other penal institution out- side the corporate limits of any such town; and to prescribe the fees in connection therewith.
AN ACT to provide for an inventory of existing facilities for training nurses, for a survey of the need for additional such facilities, for the development and administration of a construction program which will, in conjunction with existing facilities, provide for the training of sufficient nurses to serve all people of the State; to create an advisory council on nursing training and provide for the terms, powers and duties of the members thereof.
An Act to validate, ratify and confirm the consolidation of the cities of Warwick and Newport News into the Consolidated City of Newport News, together with the election of the council therefor; to provide a charter for the Consolidated City of Newport News, effective July 1, 1958; to repeal Chapter 64 of the Acts of Assembly of 1895-96 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, and Acts amendatory thereof, effective July 1, 1958; and to repeal chapter 706, of the Acts of Assembly of 1952 entitled "An Act to provide a Charter and form of government for the City of Warwick, and to provide for the adoption thereof", approved April 8, 1952, and Acts amendatory thereof, effective July 1, 1958.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 11 of Title 8 thereof a new article numbered 8.1, which article consists of new sections numbered 38-197.1 to 8-197.12, inclusive, so as to empower the State Entomologist to require the destruction of musk thistle by landowners under certain circumstances and to cause such weed to be destroyed upon failure of the landowner to do so, to provide for notice, to prescribe penalty for interference with such official when acting under such powers, to provide for appeal by the landowner, to provide for payment by landowner and a lien upon land for failure to pay, and to prescribe the manner in which such article may be placed in force in any county or magisterial district thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-789.7 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, which was enacted as § 1 of Chapter 882 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, approved April 2, 1954, relating to notice to the governing body required prior to the construction of sewerage systems and facilities or extensions thereof.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 88-57.1, to permit the acquisition by the State Highway Commission of real property which may be needed for the construction of highways or projects within a period of twelve years for the Interstate Highway System or six years for any other highway system, and the lease or other utilization thereof.
An Act to authorize the State Hospital Board under certain conditions to establish, construct, equip and operate a State hospital within the geographical limits of certain counties.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 61-78 through 61-82, 61-85, 61-86, 61-89, 61-91 and 61-93 of the Code of Virginia, relating, generally, to refrigerated locker plants, so as to define and include food processing plants within the scope thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46-431, 46-487, 46-455, 46-460, 46-474 and 46-492, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, all being part of the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act, in order to increase certain minimum provisions of the security for damages and proof of financial responsibility required after certain accidents. CH 638
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 88-82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to construction districts and allocation of funds thereto.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 27-26.1 through 27-26.8, authorizing certain advances by counties to fire districts, the reimbursement thereof, the expenditure of fire district funds, and validating certain such expenditures.
An Act to authorize the State Board of Health to make rules and regula-

1959es
An Act to authorize, with the prior written approval of the Governor, the increasing of certain appropriations out of certain special funds for the use of the State Corporation Commission.
An Act to amend and reenact § 22-5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to minimum school terms.
An Act to appropriate funds to the Civil Air Patrol, Incorporated, for aid in the maintenance and operation of a civil air patrol.
An Act to amend and reenact various sections of the Code of Virginia relating to county and city budgets and public school funding.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-887.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to medical doctors’ revenue licenses.
An Act to establish the responsibility of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the control of certain public schools under certain conditions
An Act to authorize the city of Newport News to apply unexpended proceeds from bond sales for public improvements and redevelopment, in the event of abandonment of the Whittaker Memorial Hospital addition.
An Act to declare an emergency to exist in any school division in which an efficient system of elementary or secondary public schools is not operated under local authority, and in such case to invoke the police powers of the Commonwealth and the Constitutional powers of the General Assembly; to establish in every such school district, subject to the adoption by the local governing body of a resolution declaring the need therefor, an efficient system of elementary or secondary public schools operated by the Commonwealth; to provide that such system be operated and maintained by the Governor for and on behalf of the General Assembly; to define "efficient system of elementary public schools" and "efficient system of secondary public schools"; to provide for the use of local school buildings and related facilities of certain counties, cities and towns; to provide for the purchase of text-books, supplies and equipment, and to permit local school boards to provide for the transportation of pupils; to provide for the administration of the school system hereby established and the employment of persons therein; to provide for the application of this act to counties, cities and towns; to vest in the State Board of Education the general supervision of such schools and to authorize it, subject to certain limitations, to make rules and regulations applicable thereto; to provide how proceedings against local school boards in matters involving the State established schools may be instituted; to prescribe the effect of certain proceedings brought against local school boards and the members thereof; to provide the circumstances under which pupils may be admitted to the State schools; to provide for the employment and assignment of teachers and other personnel; to prescribe the provisions of Title 22 of the Code of Virginia which shall apply to the State established and maintained schools; to provide the method for admission to the State established schools and the terms and conditions thereof.
An Act to authorize the State Board of Education to convey certain property of Madison College and to authorize the expenditure of the proceeds therefrom.
An Act to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 716 of the Acts of Assembly of 1956, approved March 81, 1956, relating to the appropriation of the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the thirtieth day of June, 1957, and the thirtieth day of June, 1958, so as to provide that the sums appropriated in Items 188, 184, 187, 188 and 148 shall be for the maintenance of an efficient system of elementary and secondary schools, respectively; to establish and define an elementary and secondary public school system; to prohibit the expenditure of any of the funds appropriated by such items in support of any system of public schools which is not efficient; and to provide for and prescribe the conditions under which such funds may be expended for educational purposes in furtherance of education of Virginia students in elementary and secondary nonsectarian private schools.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-792.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to extension of time for completion of general reassessment in certain counties.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers of boards of supervisors.
An Act to amend and reenact § 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to when search warrants may issue in certain cases.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15-666.2 and 15-666.8 of the Code of Virginia, which were enacted by Chapter 814 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, approved March 17, 1954, defining “bonds” and relating to when proceedings to determine the validity of bond issues may be brought.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65-7.1, to define change in condition as used in the Workmen’s Compensation Act.
An Act to authorize certain localities to raise sums of money by a tax on property, subject to local taxation, to be expended by local school authorities for educational purposes including cost of transportation, and to impose penalties for violations.
An Act to require the inclusion in school budgets of amounts sufficient for the payment of grants for educational purposes; to provide for local governing bodies raising money for educational purposes and making appropriations therefor; to provide for the expenditure of such funds for payment of such grants and transportation costs under certain circumstances; to empower the State Board of Education to make rules and regulations and pay such grants; to provide for the withholding of certain funds and the use thereof; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.
An Act to amend and reenact § 22-72, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers and duties of the county school boards, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 22-72.1, authorizing county school boards to provide for transportation of pupils.
An Act to authorize local school boards to expend funds designated for public school purposes for such grants in furtherance of elementary and secondary education as may be permitted by law without first obtaining authority therefor from the tax levying body.
An Act to amend and reenact § 51-111.10, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the meaning of certain words as used in the Virginia Supplemental Retirement Act, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Title 51, Chapter 8.2 thereof, an Article 4.1, containing §§ 51-111.88:1 through 51-111.88:8, providing for the retirement of certain private school teachers.
An Act to amend and reenact § 2-262 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the centralized purchasing of material, equipment and supplies by political subdivisions, counties, cities, towns and local officers.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2-86.1, providing that the Attorney General shall render certain services to local school boards, and to appropriate funds.

1960
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 37-1.1 and 37-5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain definitions of certain State institutions and to continuation of the Petersburg Training School.
An Act to amend Chapter 384 as amended of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, which provided a new charter and special form of government for the city of Charlottesville and matters in connection therewith, by adding a section numbered 14-a, to confer upon the city council powers in relation to the operations of certain authorities within the city; to require any such authority to obtain approval from the city council for entry into certain contracts, the construction, reconstruction or extension of certain facilities, and the establishment of any new housing within the confines of the city; to provide that the approval of the voters may be required in any such case and to provide for the holding of referendums to obtain the approval of the voters in such cases; and to repeal § 86-19.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to limitations upon housing authorities in certain cities.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-250, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to borrowing by counties to meet casual deficits in revenue.
An Act for the relief of certain students who attended Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in the session of 1957-58.
An Act to amend and reenact § 56 of Chapter 189 of the Acts of Assembly of 1902-8-4, approved April 30, 1908, as amended, the chapter providing a charter for the town of Warrenton, and the section relating to town levies.
An Act to encourage the education of the children of the Commonwealth
An Act providing for the construction, maintenance, repair and operation of a bridge project from a point or points on Smith Island off the southeastern shore of Northampton County, Virginia, to a point or points on the mainland in said County, including beach facilities incidental to such project; creating a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to be known as the Smith Island Bridge Authority and defining its powers and duties; granting to the Authority power to acquire necessary real and personal property and to exercise the power of eminent domain; providing for financing the construction of such project by the issuance of revenue bonds of the Authority, payable solely from tolls and other revenues; authorizing the issuance of revenue refunding bonds; providing that no debt of the Commonwealth or of any county, city, district or political subdivision thereof shall be incurred in the exercise of any of the powers granted by this Act; providing for the collection of tolls and other revenues to pay such bonds and the interest thereon and the cost of maintenance, repair and operation of such project; exempting from taxes and assessments such project and such bonds and the income therefrom; providing for the execution of a trust agreement to secure the payment of such bonds without mortgaging or encumbering such project; and prescribing the powers and duties of the Authority in connection with the foregoing and the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds issued under the provisions of this Act.
An Act to authorize the Governor of Virginia and the State Hospital Board to sell and convey to the town of Marion certain property.
An Act for the relief of James M. Settle.
An Act to amend and reenact § 42-55 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the furnishing of State publications.
An Act to amend and reenact § 42-26, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to grants to libraries.
AN ACT to provide for the creation of the Nansemond County Industrial and Port Authority; to provide for the composition, government, powers, duties and liabilities thereof and other matters pertaining thereto; and to provide for the issuance of certain bonds thereby, and the terms and conditions of such issuance.
An Act to amend and reenact § 87-128, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to board of certain State hospital and colony patients in private homes.
An Act to create a political subdivision within Bath County, to be known as the Airport District of Bath County, with the powers conferred upon cities and counties by Articles 1 and 2, Chapter 8 of Title 5 of the Code of Virginia; to authorize the governing body of such county to issue bonds of such district, subject to a referendum, for the acquisition and construction of an airport and to levy taxes for their payment; and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to transfer to such district all funds donated to the county for the acquisition and construction of an airport; and to declare an emergency exists.
An Act to amend and reenact § 22-119 of the Code of Virginia, relating to money derived under the provisions of the “forest reserve act” approved by Congress on May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, and to the disposition of such money.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-425, 58-426, 58-427, 58-434, 58-435, 58-440 and 58-441 of the Code of Virginia, relating to intangible personal property taxes.
An Act to amend and reenact § 38.1-291 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain exemptions from the requirements of §§ 88.1-282 to 88.1-289.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 45-26 as amended, 54-24, 54-98, 54-260.18, 54-295.7, 54-841, 54-3895, 54-898.12, 54-741 and 54-789 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation allowed to members of certain boards and to the use of the funds of such boards.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-11, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the amount that any county board of supervisors may expend to promote agriculture.
An Act to amend and reenact § 42-28 of the Code of Virginia, relating to standards necessary for State aid to libraries, so as to provide for supervision of and aid to substandard libraries under certain circumstances.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-707, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to acquiring dumps for waste material in counties, the amount of acreage that may be used and forbidding dumping elsewhere.