Skip to main content
Loading...

Transportation

1916
An Act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), for the purpose of building, improving and maintaining the public roads and bridges of Capeville magisterial district in said county.
An ACT to provide a reasonable compensation for the board of road commissioners of Bluestone magisterial district, Mecklenburg county, Virginia
An ACT declaring abandoned so much of the Winchester and Berry’s ferry turnpike as lies within the county of Frederick; and providing that the Winchester and Berry’s ferry turnpike company shall continue to enjoy all of its rights and privileges under its charter to so much of its said road as lies within the county of Clarke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 25, 1914, providing for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Fauquier to borrow money not exceeding $25,000.00 to extend the improvement of the public roads in Scott and Marshall magisterial districts, and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT authorizing the county of Giles to construct and maintain free highway bridges across New River in said county.
An ACT to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to exempt from taxation, State and local, public wharves, docks and terminals of any city, where such public wharves, docks and terminals are located in any county, city or town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 9, 10 and 12, of an act entitled an act to provide for the building, working and repairing of public roads of Sussex county, and to authorize any magisterial district therein to borrow money and to issue bonds for the purpose of building said roads, and to provide for the payment of such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon, and authorizing the county to issue bonds for any magisterial district road purposes
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 8 of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 654 of the acts of assembly of 1897-8, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Floyd county to let to contract the public roads of that county and levy a tax to keep the same in repair, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 227 of the acts of 1899-1900, and as amended and re-enacted by chapter 144 of the acts of 1904.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to erect and maintain toll gates on macadam roads now or hereafter built in said county, and to demand and collect tolls for the use of such roads.
An ACT to create for the county of Princess Anne, Virginia, a commission of roads, bridges and wharves and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and thereby provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads, bridges and wharves therein, and to repeal any and all acts not in keeping with this act.
An ACT to promote safety of travel on the highways of this Commonwealth, and to provide penalties for the violation a same.
An ACT relating to liability of common carriers, whose motive power is steam and engaged in intrastate commerce, for injuries to, or death of, their employees, and provide for the pleading thereof; provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to electric railways or roads that are in part electric, operated wholly within this State.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Amelia to borrow from time to time the sum of $5,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to continue the improvement of the public reads of said county.
An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation for sale, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits as herein defined, except as provided herein; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to the sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890 and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 8, 11, 12 and 14 of an act approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all roads, bridges, causeways and wharves, and so forth, approved ah 17,
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to borrow money for the purpose of building, repairing and maintaining roads and bridges in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a new charter for the town of Farmville
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of an act entitled an act to add section 47 to chapter 106 of the acts of assembly of Virginia, 1904, entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction and improvement of the public roads, rules for building and keeping in repair all public roads, bridges, causeways and wharves of the several counties of the State ‘and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 12, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1910, in relation to the powers of boards a supervisors in regard to the adoption, amendment, and repeal of special road laws.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20, 1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 11, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1914.
An Act to Authorize the Road Construction Board of Plymouth Magisterial District, Lunenburg County, to Expend Unexpended Balance from Sale of Bonds for Permanent Road Improvement
An ACT to permit the qualified voters of Albemarle county to determine whether there shall be a road commission for said county to have charge and supervision of all the public roads of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county approved March 4, 1896, and an act amendatory thereof approved February 14, 1901, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds heretofore and hereafter issued by the town of Orange, Virginia, and an election held on the thirty-first day of August, 1915, authorizing the issuing of the said bonds for water and street improvement of the said town.
1918
An ACT to enact and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham, approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 5, 1890, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 25, 1892, as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the general assembly approved February 26, 1896, approved March 15, 1904, as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910, approved March 20, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund, and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, and to authorize the said board of supervisors to create a general maintenance road fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair of public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath and Highland
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Warren county to erect toll gates, and to demand and collect tolls on the macadamized roads and bridges across the Shenandoah river or either branch thereof, of the county of Warren, and to provide how such tolls are to be expended
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to borrow money and to issue bonds for the purpose of securing national and State aid in the building of roads.
An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads, and changing locations of existing roads
An ACT to provide for the locating and opening of new roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any of the existing roads, for the working, improving and keeping the same in repair; and to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges, in the county of Wythe; and to provide a penalty for obstructing or injuring the roads and bridges in said county, and for repealing all former special road laws for the said county of Wythe.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to empower boards of supervisors to enact special und local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstruction, encroachment and injury, to make violations of such enactment a misdemeanor, and to provided penalties, approved March 15, 1910.
An ACT to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in ‘the State highway system,” and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh, inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State, and to extend the work of the State board of health.
An ACT to prohibit the erection and continuation of devices and signs in the form of a railway crossing sign boards on or near any of the public roads of this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Warren county to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, and issue bonds therefor, for the permanent improvement and construction of certain roads in Front Royal and South River magisterial districts of said county.
An ACT to provide for the redemption of district and county road bonds under certnin conditions.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and to macaudamize roads in said county, ete., and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to open, by condemnation or otherwise alter, discontinue, work and keep in order and repair the public roads and bridges of said county, approved March 7, 1910, and all acts amendatory thereof, approved March 18, 1915.
An ACT to authorize cities having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) according to the last United States census to condemn lands for street, road and avenue purposes outside of the corporate limits, under certain conditions.
An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to close the Cove street canal from the eastern side of Arlington place to the junction of said Cove street canal with Mahone’s canal, and to close Mahone’s canal from its said junction with Cove street canal to the eastern side of Lake avenue, in the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section third of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not to exceed $250,000, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Russell county, Virginia, to establish and maintain toll gates upon the several improved roads in the several magisterial districts of said county, fix the rate of toll thereof and collect the same.
An ACT to permit the transfer of the Valley Turnpike to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to fix the terms and conditions of such transfer and to provide for the maintenance of said turnpike.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to levy a special district road tax for Boiling Springs and Clifton districts.
An ACT to authorize Greene and Madison counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across Rapidan river.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to regulate the time and manner in which common carriers doing business in this State shall adjust and pay just freight charges and claims for loss or damage to freight, and claims for storage, demurrage, and car service
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 10 of chapter 609 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1902-3-4, relating to turnpike companies
An ACT to provide for the aeceptance of the terms and provisions of an act of congress, approved July 11, 1916, entitled an act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes.
An ACT to amend the special road law for Rockbridge county
An ACT to provide that members and employees and agents of the State highway commission may use toll roads and toll bridges, without payment of toll.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20, 1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties, as amended by act approved February 9, 1916, so as to provide how the board of supervisors of Buchanan county may establish, change and relocate roads in that county and contract for the construction of same, on terms and conditions.
An ACT to raise additional revenue for the support of the government.
An ACT to provide for the expenditure of any surplus of the 1915 bond issue, which may remain in the hands of the road board of Bluestone magisterial district of Mecklenburg county.
An ACT to amend the sixth sub-section of section twenty of the charter of the city of Norfolk, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1916
An ACT to ratify and confirm a certain contract made between the bridge commissioners of the county of Stafford, a corporation, duly chartered by the general assembly of Virginia by an act approved February 20, 1886, and Gari Melchers and Corinne Lawton Melchers, of the county of Stafford, Va.
An ACT authorizing the council of the town of Gretna in the county of Pittsylvania to use and dispose of the net profits derived from the dispensary in said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, to create a road board, for Dinwiddie county, and to prescribe its powers and duties, and provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties, approved March 8, 1904, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county
An ACT to establish 'The State Highway System.'
An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the county of Scott.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules.
An ACT to relieve horses and vehicles from toll on any roads of the State when the same are conveying pupils or students to or from immediate attendance upon schools, colleges, and other educational institutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles, and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910; and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violations or this act; and to further provide for the payment of fees collected under this act into the State treasury, and the expenditure of same in the maintenance and construction of State aid roads and bridges, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1916.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for making, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county, approved March 6, 1900, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1904, approved March 13, 1908.
An ACT to provide for the publication and distribution of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary, for the commission of felony, as heretofore amended, including the amendment thereto in regard to contracts for the hiring of convicts, as amended by acts approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
An ACT allowing James A. Fenwick to erect a wharf in King George county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the sume; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof.
An ACT to provide for the expenditure of a surplus now in the hands of the road board of Boydton magisterial district, Mecklenburg county.
An ACT authorizing cities, containing by the last or any sub-sequent United States census, a population of not less than fifty thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, to appropriate to standard guage steam railroad companies such sum or sums as may be necessary, not to exceed two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars in any one case, to induce such standard guage steam railroad companies to extend their lines into the corporate limits of such cities, and ratifying and confirming any such appropriation, not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars, made by any such city heretofore for said purpose.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow money and issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $30,000, for the purpose of repairing damage done by flood to the public roads and bridges of said county, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county, Virginia, to establish and maintain toll gates upon the several macadamized roads tn the several madisterial districts of said county, fix the rate of toll thereof, collect the same, and use it for the purpose of the repair and upkeep of said roads
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to create a road board
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid, in addition to convict labor, for the improvement of public roads
An ACT to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction and maintenance of “The State Highway System.”
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to borrow money and to issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $50,000.00, for the purpose of repairing damage done by flood to the public roads and bridges of said county, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.
An ACT to prohibit the issuing of bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement, under an election held in 1916 for this purpose, in Lunenburg county, for Pleasant Grove magisterial district of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 25 of an act entitled an act to provide the establishment, proper construction, and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all public roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves in the several counties of the State, and to repeal chapter 43 of the Code of Virginia approved March 12, 1904.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of York county to borrow money for the purpose of bridging Felgates creek, Kings creek and Queens creek, in the county of York, to borrow money for said purpose and to issue bonds therefor.
An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of super-
An ACT to provide for the issuance of $150,000 of bonds by the city of Newport News, for the repayment of funds borrowed and expended in the construction of the concrete roadway on certain streets and avenues.
An ACT to amend section 37 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved March 13, 1912, and as further amended by an act approved March 16, 1916.
An ACT to provide for the building of bridges in the county of Isle of Wight, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issuing of bonds, and to build bridges in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.
An ACT to prohibit the soliciting, aiding or permitting prostitution or illicit sexual intercourse, the use of automobiles or other conveyances for such purposes; to prohibit the keeping of assignation houses and harboring prostitutes for immoral purposes.
An ACT to regulate the operation of motor vehicles in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.
An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Upperville in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT authorizing and directing the road authorities of Totars magisterial district, in Brunswick county, Virginia, and the board of supervisors of the said county, to expend any surplus, now in the hands of said authorities, arising from the sale of road bonds of said district.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle and Buckingham counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across James river at Hatton, Virginia, either at the point where a ferry is now being operated or within one mile thereof, and to maintain and operate the same as a free bridge, and to issue bonds for that purpose.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to retire certain bonds issued for the improvement of roads in Stevensburg district in said county.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county, Virginia, to issue bond to raise money for the purpose of providing for the building and completion of certain roads in Catalpa magisterial district in said county.
An ACT to take over certain roads in Clarke county.
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceeding $20,000, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads as aforesaid.