An ACT designating a part of the State highway system of Virginia as the George Washington memorial highway. |
An ACT to create an advisory and research commission to investigate and report upon the question of freight rates, freight rate discriminations, and the development of water-ways; to prescribe its powers and duties, and to make an appropriation to pay the expenses of the said commission. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 208 of the acts of 1926, entitled an act to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Princess Anne to borrow money by the issuance of bonds in the aggregate sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) for the purpose of purchasing, building and improving roads and bridges in Seaboard magisterial district in said county; to sell the said bonds; to provide for the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof and to authorize the commission of roads and bridges of Princess Anne county for Seaboard magisterial district, to dispense the funds so obtained, approved March 18, 1926, by adding thereto two new sections to be numbered sections 8a and 8b, providing for the expenditure of the surplus of the funds raised under this act. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (e) of section 29 of chapter 149 of the Acts of 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 407 of the acts of 1924, entitled: an act to define ardent spirits and prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or ‘drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals ct cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavouring extracts; 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 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 make it an offense to operate an automobile, engine, or other motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of liquor, and to prescribe penalties therefor; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 345 of acts of assembly, 1922, approved March 23, 1922, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act approved March 20, 1924. |
An ACT to authorize and empower the district road board of Ashby magisterial district of Shenandoah county to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $7,000.00, and to issue notes of the board therefor, for the purpose of paying the existing road indebtedness of. and to do necessary road work in, said Ashby magisterial district in said county. |
An ACT to confer upon the city of Hopewell the power of supervision of subdivisions of tracts of land in said city, or within three miles of the corporate limits of same; descriptions of lots in such subdivisions and copies of such plats as evidence. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the acts of assembly, 1922, entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Cumberland county to levy a special district road tax for Hamilton district in Cumberland county, Virginia, and to pay out of the same certain debts due to contractors for work done on roads in said district |
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Culpeper to employ a superintendent of roads for the districts of Catalpa, Cedar Mountain, Jefferson and Stevensburg, in said county; to prescribe the powers and duties of such superintendent and to authorize the levy of a tax in said districts to pay the expenses incident to the employment of such superintendent. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraphs third and sixth of section 3356 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unlawful hunting and possession of game and other birds and animals. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved March 17, 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to provide for working, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county, approved March 6, 1900, as last amended by chapter 229 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, page 345. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirteen of the charter of the town of Bedford, as heretofore amended. |
An ACT to authorize the chairman of the special board of directors of the Western State Hospital to convey to the city of Staunton certain lands for street purposes. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17, 18, 21, 25, 34, 39, 42, 56%2, and 73 of chapter 474 of the acts of 1926, entitled an act to regulate the operation of vehicles on, public highways, to govern and protect pedestrians while using such highways, to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, approved March 25, 1926, and to repeal section 57 of said chapter 474 of the acts of 1926, approved March 25, 1926. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenues raised by the same and to prescribe penalties, approved March 26, 1923, as heretofore amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1926, and to enlarge the same so as to require manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers, and other persons, firms and corporations selling motor vehicle fuels for distribution to, and use by the public generally in Virginia. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Mathews to appoint each member of the board of supervisors as supervisor of roads for his magisterial district; to provide for their compensation, and to prescribe their duties and powers, approved March 14, 1924, as amended. |
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) dollars, and to issue bonds therefor for the surveying, repairing, constructing, improving, and hard-surfacing certain roads, and repairing and building bridges thereon, in Pine Creek magisterial district, of the county of Carroll; |
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 19c, 19e, 62, 64, 65 and 78 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Rich- |
An ACT to name the bridge across the Rapidan river, on route 28 of the Virginia State highway system, the Nathaniel B. Early bridge. |
An ACT to provide for the inspection, and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, lubricating oil, and other liquids or fluids used or intended to be used for power purposes; to provide for an appropriation therefor and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal chapter 477, of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for the inspection and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, and other liquids and fluids used, or intended to be used, for power purposes; and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act |
An ACT to repeal an act to require non-residents hunting in this State to pay the same fee required of citizens of this State by other States, when in excess of the Virginia fee, approved March 14, 1924, and to repeal sections 3209, 3328, 3329, 3330, 3331, 3332, 3333, 3334, 3335, 3337, and 3339 and to amend and re-enact section 3327 of the Code of Virginia relating to hunting, trapping and fishing license provisions and providing penalties for violations. |
An ACT declaring the location of routes 351 and 105, as established by the State highway commission, under the two and one-half percent clause, and annulling route 125. |
An ACT to grant the James River Bridge Corporation the right to open a temporary construction channel across the shoals on the north and south sides of the main ship channel, of James river, near its mouth, to facilitate the construction of its bridge, authority for which was granted by the general assembly of Virginia by its act, approved April 8, 1927. |
An ACT to repeal section 3945 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, requiring railroads to establish and maintain telegraphic and telephonic offices along their lines and prescribing the duties of operators and train dispatchers. |
An ACT in relation to routes number two hundred and thirty-two and number three hundred and eleven of the State highway system. |
An ACT to confirm in the State corporation commission of Virginia the jurisdiction, powers and duties, as conferred on said commission by the Constitution and general laws of this State, with respect to the control and regulation of the street railway rates and service of any public service corporation doing a street railway business in any city in this State, having a population, according to the 1920 United States census of not less than 100,000 and not exceeding 150,000, under a franchise heretofore granted, renewed, extended or amended, or which may be hereafter granted, renewed, extended or amended by such city, notwithstanding any provision in the municipal charter of said city to the contrary or in conflict or inconsistent with this act. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State high-<br />way system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial<br />to Robert E. Lee, approved March 20, 1922. [H B 179] |
An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money, not in excess of $60,000.00, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, for the purpose of surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges, and for the completion of certain contracts for the surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges in Sulphur Springs magisterial district of said county, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3225 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to oyster grounds. |
An ACT to provide that any railroad company that has established and maintained throughout the year, for five consecutive years, a passing track or public side track from which it has afforded parties owning or leasing warehouses or other buildings adjacent thereto, facilities for the receipt and shipment of their freight, in carload quantities, shall not abandon such passing track or public side track and shall not refuse to afford such parties such facilities without written consent of the State. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to create a State highway commission; to provide for a chairman thereof; and to prescribe the powers, duties and the compensation of the commission and chairman; and to provide for a State highway commissioner; to create road construction districts; to provide for the apportionment among them of road construction funds, and to provide for road construction, improvement, maintenance and preservation, also to repeal sections 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1975 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission; to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commission to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1900; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; and to repeal all other sections of the Code and acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 24, 1922, section 5 of which was heretofore amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 21, 1924, and further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1926. |
An ACT declaring annulled the section of route 13, from Totusky bridge to Callao, as established by the State highway commission under the two per cent and two and one-half per cent clauses of the law, and re-establishing the same. |
An ACT to provide for placing ferries across New river, in the counties of Grayson and Carroll, which are parts of public county roads, under the supervision and control of the boards of supervisors of said counties, and to provide penalties for failure to comply with the orders of said boards with reference thereto. |
An ACT requiring railroads to establish telegraph stations along their lines, prescribing powers of the State corporation commission with reference thereto, and imposing penalties for violations. |
An ACT to authorize and empower the chairman of the State highway commission of Virginia to convey certain property to W. L. Davis |
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3810 and 3865 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
An ACT to provide for a commission to confer with representatives of the District of Columbia and Maryland for the purpose of providing uniformity in laws relating to motor vehicle tax and traffic regulations. |
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Grayson to borrow a sum of money, not in excess of $6,000.00, in behalf of Wilson magisterial district, and to issue bonds of said county therefor, for the purpose of constructing the road in Wilson magisterial district recently surveyed from White Top to connect with route No. 12, at a point near Grant, via Cabin Creek, Helton and Rugby, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity. |
An ACT to give the consent of the State of Virginia and to authorize and permit any legally constituted bridge corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across New river, the acquisition of same by the State highway commission, and the control and regulation by the State corporation commission |
An ACT to provide a county road board for the county of Princess Anne; to define its jurisdiction, duties and liabilities; to provide for compensation to its members and employees; and to repeal chapter 49 of the acts of assembly of 1923, and chapters 196, 238 and 346 of the acts of assembly of 1926, and to abolish all boards, offices and commissions created thereby, all of which relate to road boards and commissions in said county. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 5 of an act entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same, and to prescribe penalties |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1987 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the levy of a district road tax, the limit thereof, its collection and expenditures, and providing for an increase thereof in Mathews county. |
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $39,000.00, and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in Elk Creek and Providence magisterial districts of said county; to provide for the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issues; to employ a competent road engineer, whose selection shall be approved by the chairman of the State highway commission, to make plans and specifications of all roads and bridges thereon, to be built or permanently improved from the proceeds of such bond issues, and to supervise the building of same; to employ and pay for the labor for construction of the roads mentioned; to specify the roads and parts thereof to be constructed, and the amounts to be expended thereon; to provide for imposing a tax on all property, county and district, including property in any incorporated town situated within the above-named districts, for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of such debt; to do all things necessary, needful or incidental to the main purpose of this act; and to declare an emergency. |
An ACT to provide a legislative committee to consider and investigate all matters relating to the apportionment of that portion of the motor vehicle fuel tax appropriated for the maintenance of the roads and bridges in the several county highway systems, and for the construction and reconstruction of roads and bridges in such systems, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said committee. |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, as amended, of an act entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, approved March 2, 1892. |
An ACT to designate certain parts of the State highway system of the State of Virginia, as the “Seminole Trail.” |
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3228 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to subrenting or assignment of oyster planting grounds. |
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money, not in excess of $75,000.00, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, for the purpose of surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges, for Piper's Gap magisterial district of said county, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity. |
An ACT to promote the safety of aircraft passengers; to provide for the licensing and inspection of aircraft and the licensing of aircraft pilots; to authorize the State corporation commission to promulgate rules and regulations governing the operation of aircraft: and to provide for the issuance of permits tor the estab!ishment of airports; and to provide for the supervision of said airports; and fixing penalties for the violations of this act. |
An ACT to authorize the manufacture of motor vehicle license plates, road signs and kindred articles for the use of the State or to be sold. |