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1916

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 522

Chapter 201

An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other records in ledgerized general index books.
Judicial, Property, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3059-w of an act titled, an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial

Chapter 203

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to establish and maintain a system of public high schools and to appropriate money therefor
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 204

An ACT permitting the creation of the office of public defender in cities having a population of fifty thousand, or more, and providing for their appointment and defining their powers and duties.
Public officers, Judicial, Lawyers

Chapter 205

An ACT to permit the councils, or other governing bodies of cities of the first class, to establish a system of pensions for injured, retired or superannuated members of the police and fire departments of said cities, or of either of said departments.
Pensions, Law Enforcement, Fire fighters

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of Tazewell county, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 27, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1901, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 8, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13, 1912, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1914, and to provide for the working, repairing, maintaining and improving the roads in Tazewell county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish on the land of the Central State Hospital, in the county of Dinwiddie, Virginia, the Central State Colony for the Feeble-minded, to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony and for the examination and furloughing of such persons.
Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Reformatories, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 208

An ACT to provide for the purchase, or construction, and maintenance of a free highway bridge over New river at Radford, Virginia, by the city of Radford and county of Pulaski.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Public spaces

Chapter 209

An ACT to require the county road board of Charlotte county, Virginia to render a full account of funds expended.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 92 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor
Municipal charters, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 211

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on economy and efficiency to make a survey of the State and local governments of the Commonwealth of Virginia and to submit a report to the next general assembly of Virginia.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Utilities, Budget

Chapter 212

An ACT to amend section 6 of an act approved January 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 213

AN ACT to refund to B. F. Day, of Rockbridge county, a certain amount of taxes unlawfully paid on income.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 214

An ACT to prevent hogs from running at large in the town of Grundy in the county of Buchanan.
Agriculture

Chapter 215

An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 17, 1915, Entitled an Act to Create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and County and City Boards of Review of Assessments; to Define the Powers and Duties of Such Board; to Fix the Compensation of Their Members and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act; to Provide for the Review of Reports of Purchases by Merchants and the Review of the Annual Returns and Assessments of Intangible Personal Property, Income and Money, by Certain Officials and Fixing Their Compensation Therefor and to Provide Penalties for the Violation of This Act, and to Repeal an Act Entitled An Act to Create a State Advisory Board on Taxation and County and City Boards of Review of Assessments to Define the Powers and Duties of Such Boards; to Fix the Compensation of Their Members and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act: to Provide for the Review of Assessments on Intangible Personal Property, Income and Money by Certain Officials, and Fixing Their Compensation Therefor and to Provide Penalties for the Violation of This Act, Approved February 16, 1915. And to Change the Name of the State Advisory Board to the State Tax Board and to Appropriate Money to Carry Out the Provisions of This Act.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget, Business, Employment and labor, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 216

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.
Amendments, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 217

An ACT to authorize the school board of Luray corporation school district number 5 of the county of Page to borrow money and to issue bonds therefor for the purpose of discharging the outstanding indebtedness against said school district and to provide for the payment of said bonds.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 30, 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Strasburg, in Shenandoah county, approved March 19, 1884.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Public expenditures, Jails, Fire fighters, Bonds

Chapter 219

AN ACT limiting the number of quail, partridges, pheasants, grouse, and wild turkey that may be killed in one day by any person in the county of Shenandoah.
Hunting

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, approved March 12, 1912. (H. B. 278.)
Municipal charters, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 221

An ACT to authorize the town of Blacksburg, in Montgomery county, to issue bonds and to borrow money for the purpose of improving the streets of the town.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 222

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties and councils of cities and towns to appropriate money at their discretion to defray the necessary expenses for the Confederate veterans in said counties and cities and towns to visit Birmingham, Alabama, on May 16, 17, 18, 1916, at the grand reunion of Confederate veterans.
Confederate

Chapter 223

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gretna, Pittsylvania county, and to repeal all other acts ee with this
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Taxation, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 224

An ACT for the relief of Ollie Fowler
Death and burial, Judicial, Public expenditures, Charity, Employment and labor

Chapter 225

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.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 226

An ACT to restrain persons suffering from tuberculosis who, by reason of carelessness, are a menace to the health of their respective communities.
Healthcare

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanley in Page county, Virginia, approved February 14, 1900. (H. B. 475.)
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Boundaries, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter X of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1906.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 229

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.
Municipal charters, Property, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Labor, Public officers, Transportation, Voting, Death and burial, Charity, Education, Alcohol, Civil Rights

Chapter 230

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.
Amendments, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 231

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county to appropriate out of the general funds of said county to the public schools thereof a sum not to exceed 25 per cent. of the amount collected for county purposes during the next preeee year.
Education

Chapter 232

An ACT to protect pheasants in the county of Middlesex for two years.
Hunting

Chapter 233

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for altering and vacating certain streets and alleys in Norfolk county, not lying within the limits of any city or town, and to validate and confirm proceedings heretofore had in the county court of said county, for the purpose of altering or vacating any such streets or alleys and to limit the time within which remedies in respect thereto or to the closing or attempted closing thereof may be had
Repeal of legislation, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 234

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Hanover county to appropriate a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars in any one year for the purpose of aiding district and county fairs.
Agriculture, Amusement, Public expenditures

Chapter 235

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in its discretion, to contribute out of the general county levy, a sum of money to be expended in the building and erection of a public service building to be erected at what is known as “Burwell’s Bay” in the county of Isle of Wight.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public spaces

Chapter 236

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Warwick, Elizabeth City, James City, and York to lease such of the highways of their respective counties
Transportation

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of an act approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1915, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, classifying auctioneers, and to add sub-divisions 67-a and 67-b, defining live-stock auctioneers and the license tax to be paid by them.
Agriculture, Business, Taxation

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend sections 1, 7, 9, 10 and 11 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 239

An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide for the Working of Certain Long Term or Desperate Convicts by the Superintendent of the Penitentiary, the Governor and the Commissioner of Agriculture, for the Manufacture of Ground Limestone and Oyster Shells, and Incidentally for the Disposition of Same, and the By-Products Suitable for Road Construction, to the Citizens of the State, Adding the Manufacture of Ground Marl.
Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Prisons, Public officers, Utilities, Budget

Chapter 240

An act to empower the board of supervisors of any county of this State to authorize the extension, construction, operation, and maintenance of the line of turnpike road of any turnpike company of this State, in which the State is a stockholder, into or through such county, or any portion thereof, upon such terms as to tolls, and upon such conditions, as may be prescribed and approved by such board of supervisors, and accepted by such company, and to this end to empower any such company so to extend its line of turnpike road accordingly.
Transportation

Chapter 241

An ACT to prevent the padding of bills of costs in connectior with sales of lands for delinquent taxes.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 242

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 450 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 243

An ACT to protect certain birds for two years in the county of Lee.
Hunting

Chapter 244

An ACT to prohibit the hunting, shooting, fishing or trespassing upon the lands of any person in the county of Amherst, without permission in writing from the land owner, his agent or representative.
Hunting, Fishing

Chapter 245

An ACT to authorize the issuance of $130,000.00 of bonds by the city of Newport News, for school purposes.
Bonds, Budget, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 246

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to establish and maintain toll gates on the macadam roads of said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Bonds

Chapter 247

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county, approved January 29, 1898, as heretofore amended.
Transportation

Chapter 248

An ACT to allow the Richmond Yacht Club, incorporated, to build a wharf in James river, on its property in Chesterfield county, Virginia.
Amusement, Transportation, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 249

An ACT to permit the boards of supervisors of counties of Amherst and Bedford to establish and maintain a free ferry across James river, at or near Big Island, and to accept contributions toward the expense thereof.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Company, incorporated, to take possession of the turnpike leading from near Warrenton to Fairfax Courthouse, and prescribing the terms and limitations of the same, approved March 13, 1914, so as to enable the company to take possession should it deem proper to do so, of a part, instead of all of said old turnpike, and the old turnpike from Buckland to Gainesville by way of Haymarket, or any portion thereof, and of certain other highways or portions thereof.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 251

An ACT to limit the number of quail, partridges, pheasants, grouse and wild turkey taken, carried, transported, shipped or removed in any way from the county of Shenandoah.
Hunting

Chapter 252

An ACT authorizing the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, with the counties of Page and Rockingham, to jointly acquire the bridge across the Shenandoah river at the town of Shenandoah and providing for its repair and maintenance, and authorizing the said town of Shenandoah to lay a levy for said purposes.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 253

An ACT for the relief of P. H. Carper.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 254

An Act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, and 5 of an act entitled an act to regulate the professional nursing of the sick in the State of Virginia, approved May 14, 1903, and to add an independent section to said act, designated as section 13.
Healthcare, Education, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 255

An ACT requiring committees of persons lawfully confined in certain institutions of Virginia, who have no kin in the relation of husband or wife or child dependent on them, and who possess estates to pay to the steward of the institution in which they are confined such incomes as may arise from their estates to provide for such persons extra comforts not provided by such institutions in the ordinary maintenance of inmates.
Healthcare, Custody of children, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 256

An ACT to authorize the governor to classify the character and nature of discharge from the service of the Virginia volunteers.
Armed forces, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 257

An ACT to provide for the proper payment and distribution of such funds as may have already come, or which may hereafter come, into the treasury of the State under an act of Congress approved May 23, 1908, to be applied for the benefit of the public schools and the public roads of the counties.
Education, Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, amend and consolidate in one act certain laws relating to oysters, fish, clams, crabs and other shellfish, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts of the general assembly and any sections of the Code of Virginia in conflict with the provisions of this act
Fishing, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1375 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act providing funds to help maintain indigent consumptives at the Catawba Sanatorium
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 261

An ACT for the relief of C. C. Cain.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 262

An ACT for the protection of squirrels in the county of Shenandoah.
Hunting

Chapter 263

An ACT to prohibit the hunting with ferrets in ar county.
Hunting

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the Meherrin river
Fishing

Chapter 265

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to sell and convey the poor-house farm, belonging to the said county, or any part thereof, and to employ land agents to make sale of the said farm.
Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Charity, Jails

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Richmond, so as to amend and re-enact section 106 as the same has been heretofore amended, concerning the election, qualification and duties of justices of the peace.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 267

An ACT concerning the enforcement of the laws governing the manufacture, storage, preparation for sale, and sale of articles used as food or condiment for human beings or animals, and prescribing the duties and compensation of Commonwealth’s attorneys in connection with the enforcement of such laws.
Agriculture, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 268

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3702 of the Code of Virginia, regarding setting fire to woods and certain inflammable substances.
Fire fighters, Property, Public spaces, Law Enforcement

Chapter 269

An ACT to repeal section 2467 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the admission to record of certain writings.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 270

An ACT to provide for taking a special school census in Bland magisterial district of Prince George county and for basing the apportionment of school funds upon such census.
Education

Chapter 271

An ACT to authorize the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to enter into a contract with Dr. William E. Hopkins in regard to a conditional donation and to enter into contracts of a similar nature with others.
Education, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1446 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended relating to the annual report of the county school board.
Education

Chapter 273

An ACT to authorize the clerk of the circuit court of Wise county to receive and keep on file a delinquent land book of delinquent town lots and acreage located within the boundaries the corporation of Gladeville.
Property, Municipal charters, Budget, Boundaries

Chapter 274

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.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 275

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.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 276

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,
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 277

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government, and to pay the interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1915
Amusement, Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 278

An ACT to make it unlawful to use the common or “roller towel” in any hotel, railway train, railway station, public or private school, public lavatory or washroom, and to provide punishment therefor.
Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 279

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
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 280

An ACT to make the failure to pay for or refusal to return goods, wares or merchandise delivered for selection or approval larceny in certain cases.
Business

Chapter 281

An ACT to provide for policewomen in all cities having a population of 15,000 or over as shown in the latest United States census.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Equality before the law

Chapter 282

An ACT to allow a credit to persons, convicted of any crime or misdemeanor and sentenced to a term in jail or the penitentiary, of all time spent by such person in jail awaiting a trial or pending an appeal, or awaiting removal to the penitentiary.
Jails, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 283

An ACT providing for the assessment and taxation of stock cars, furniture cars, fruit cars, refrigerator cars, meat cars, oil cars, tank cars, and other similar cars used in this State and owned by corporations or individuals having no domicile within the State.
Taxation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 284

An ACT to amend sections 1 and 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road and bridge improvement in the counties of the State, approved February 25, 1910.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 285

An ACT to repeal section 3509 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3508, as amended by an act approved December 31, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 13 1908, a relation to the fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Public officers

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
Amendments, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 287

An ACT requiring contributory negligence to be set forth in bill of particulars when relied upon as a defense.
Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 289

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 819 of the Code, as heretofore amended, as to where officers shall reside.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend and re-enact the eighth sub-section of section 5 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the computation of time.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2911 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to judgment in detinue.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Property

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to protect the title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate for value from the heir at law of a decedent against the devise of the said real estate without notice to such purchasers.
Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 293

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to direct and authorize county and corporation courts to strike from the lists of land returned delinquent for the non-payment of taxes, levies and so forth, such as are erroneously thereon
Taxation, Property, Public officers

Chapter 294

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2674 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the return of accounts of sales by tH Bai
Amendments, Property, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to buggery and kindred crimes and punishment therefor.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Divorce, Judicial

Chapter 296

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2678 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the exhibit of the accounts of fiduciaries for settlement.
Amendments, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 297

An ACT to provide when a person convicted of a misdemeanor may be sentenced to the State convict road force.
Judicial, Prisons, Labor, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 298

An ACT to authorize banks and trust companies to make acceptances and to issue letters of credit.
Business

Chapter 299

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in re-lation to fraudulent conversion of property held under trust deed
Property

Chapter 300

An ACT to permit females to qualify, give bond and act as deputy clerks in all courts of this Commonwealth.
Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers
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