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1922

Laws in Volume
Displaying 401 - 500 of 515

Chapter 407

An ACT prescribing the duties of operators of motor or other vehicles on public highways who shall injure any person or property while so driving on said highways, and prescribing penalties for the violation
Transportation

Chapter 408

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 409

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 13 of an act entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 410

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act to provide a road law for Spotsylvania county, and all acts subsequent thereto.
Transportation

Chapter 411

An ACT to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Charlottesville, and to provide a charter and special form of government for the said city, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Charlottesville.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Business, Recreation

Chapter 412

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Property, Healthcare, Public spaces, Education, Employment and labor, Coroner

Chapter 413

An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the State the question of calling a constitutional convention, to be held for the purpose of revising and amending the present Constitution.
Amendments, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 414

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 319 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Armed forces, Public officers

Chapter 415

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 9, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 7 and 8 of said charter.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 416

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on simplification of State government; to prescribe the powers and duties of the commission, and to make an appropriation to enable it to ce the work assigned to it.
Budget, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Public expenditures, Unclassified

Chapter 417

An ACT to provide for the audit by the State accountant or his assistants of the accountants and records of city and county officials and agencies handling State funds; to make an appropriation therefor, and to provide how the expense of such audit shall be borne; and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the inspection by the office of the State accountant of the accounts of city and county officials handling State funds, approved March 19, 1920.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 418

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4695 of the Code of Virginia.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 419

An ACT to re-imburse J. P. Taylor and J. C. Hart for barn and hay destroyed in order to capture Walter Ware who was escaping after the murder of Sheriff W. C. Bond and Sargeant Julian F. Boyer, of Orange county, Virginia.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments, Property

Chapter 420

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5827, relating to ‘— limitation of enforcement of deeds of trust and mortgages.
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 421

An ACT for the relief of all taxpayers in the State of Virginia
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 422

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 381, 382, 384 and 385 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 399 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 423

An ACT to create county school boards; to prescribe the powers, duties, obligations and compensation of such boards; to provide that, in counties, the county school board shall be the unit of operation of the public free school system; and to abolish district school boards in counties, and county school boards as they may exist on September 1, 1922.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 424

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2072 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 425

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 45, 46, 61 and 69 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act
Amendments, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 426

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4278 of the Code of 1919.
Amendments, Charity, Death and burial, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 427

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled an act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Death and burial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 428

An ACT to require commitment to the State board of charities and corrections of certain misdemeanants on indeterminate sentences; and to provide what disposition said board may make of such persons.
Charity, Judicial, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 429

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts of said county; to authorize the erection of tollgates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein; and making certain provisions for the construction, working, maintenance, etc., of said roads, and to levy a tax for said purposes in said county and in the several magisterial districts thereof; and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county; and to validate the official acts of certain officers under the laws heretofore in effect in said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 430

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2143 and 2138 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 431

An ACT to prevent deception in the sale of paint, turpentine, linseed oil and any substitute therefor; to provide for true labels for the same; and providing for enforcement thereof; and providing penalty for the violation thereof.
Business, Public expenditures, Utilities, Agriculture

Chapter 432

An ACT to appropriate the proceeds of the Glebe lands and other properties belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware and Petsworth districts in the county of Gloucester, and to create a corporation to hold and invest said funds and all other funds now held by the Gloucester charity school, and other donations; also to repeal all general and special laws heretofore passed in any way affecting or pertaining to the Gloucester charity school.
Education, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 433

An ACT to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, and civil and police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation therefor, and to repeal an act entitled an act to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation therefor, approved February 17, 1920.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 434

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 435

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 581 of the Code of Virginia
Legislative Amendments, Recreation

Chapter 436

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2431 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920.
Budget, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 437

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 438

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4801 of the Code of Virginia.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 439

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6046 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Amendments, Civil Rights, Debt, Property

Chapter 440

An ACT to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon.
Debt, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 441

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1569 of the Code of Virginia.
Death and burial, Healthcare, Dead bodies (Law), Cemeteries, Public officers

Chapter 442

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6322 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 443

An ACT to amend section 5281 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Inheritance and succession, Marriage

Chapter 444

An ACT to repeal section 6326 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 445

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6317 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 446

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3513 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Amendments

Chapter 447

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2854 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Property, Agriculture, Business

Chapter 448

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3102, 3105 and 3106 of the Code of Virginia, 1919.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Employment and labor

Chapter 449

An ACT to provide for the incorporation, establishment and operation of loan and savings institutions known as “credit unions.”
Business, Amendments

Chapter 450

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3777 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Incorporation, Pensions, Public expenditures

Chapter 451

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3101 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 452

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2698 of the Code of Virginia.
Bonds, Public officers, Budget, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 453

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2699 of the Code of Virginia, which relates to bonds required of city treasurers.
Bonds

Chapter 454

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2414 of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 455

An ACT authorizing and directing the payment out of the treasury of the sum of $2,093.80 to Ivakota Association, incorporated.
Prisons, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 456

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2406 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 457

An ACT to pay an assessor or an assistant assessor of lands for time necessarily employed in the re-assessment of real estate recently had.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property

Chapter 458

An ACT to provide a simple remedy for the correction of erroneous assessment of taxes when such error is due to a mistake on the part of the assessing officer or to the mistake of the officer on whose report the assessment was made.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 459

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 109 and 111% of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schols and to pay the interest on the public debt and to pro- vide a special tax for pensions as authorized by scction 189 of the Constitution
Amusement, Taxation, Public spaces, Circus

Chapter 460

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, 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, and acts amendatory thereof, by adding a new section to be known as section 441%, imposing a tax upon the transfer at death of the personal property of non-residents, and providing penalties for the violation of this section.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Noncitizens

Chapter 461

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, 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, and acts amendatory thereof.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 462

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2546 and 2550 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 463

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, 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, and acts amendatory thereof.
Taxation, Budget, Pensions, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 464

An ACT to prohibit the sale of deer in this State.
Hunting

Chapter 465

An ACT to authorize the commissioner of game and inland fish-eries to permit bona fide owners of fox hounds, actually used for fox hunt-ing, to release such hounds from confinement at any time.
Hunting

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3325 of the Code of Virginia.
Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 467

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3205 and 3209 of the Code of Virginia.
Fishing, Transportation, Property

Chapter 468

An ACT to authorize the commissioner of the department of game and inland fisheries to issue non-resident hunting and fishing licenses to United States field inspectors of the bureau of biological survey, department of agriculture, and United States field inspectors of the bureau of fisheries, department of commerce.
Hunting, Fishing, Agriculture, Business

Chapter 469

An ACT making it unlawful for any person to drive or permit to be driven on the public roads and highways of this State any motor vehicle at any time with the muffler cut out or not in operation.
Transportation

Chapter 470

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1028 of the Code of Virginia.
Healthcare, Civil Rights, Marriage, Judicial

Chapter 471

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to negotiate a loan and issue bonds of said county for the purpose of improving the public highways in Samuel Miller magisterial district of said county, and to levy a special district tax in said district to pay said bonds and the interest thereon.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Budget

Chapter 472

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Halifax county to borrow $60,000 and to issue notes therefor, for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness existing against the county road fund and the general county fund of said county; and to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Halifax county to borrow $40,000 and to issue notes therefor for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness existing against the county road fund and the general county fund of said county, approved February 17, 1922.
Budget, Public expenditures, Debt, Municipal charters

Chapter 473

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to issue bonds of said county on behalf of the Yokum Station magisterial district thereof, for a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for the purpose of providing funds to macadamize and otherwise permanently improve a certain road of said district, known as the Keokee road, leading from the Wise county line on top of Dividing Ridge, to the town of Keokee, a distance of approximately three and one-half (3%) miles, and such additional distance beyond and west of Keokee leading to the Lower Crab Orchard country, as can be permanently improved out of such funds; and to levy taxes to pay the interest therton, and to create a sinking fund for the payment of principal of said bonds at maturity.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 474

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia.
Wildlife, Hunting, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor

Chapter 475

An ACT providing for the collection of specimens of birds and their nests and eggs for scientific and educational purposes only.
Wildlife

Chapter 476

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, 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, and acts amendatory thereof.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business, Pensions, Education

Chapter 477

An ACT to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation within the Commonwealth of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, lime-sulphur compounds, and other insecticides and fungicides, and regulating traffic therein; providing for inspection of such materials, and imposing penalties.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare, Utilities

Chapter 478

An ACT for the relief of F. P. Pulley.
Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 479

An ACT to provide for payment of compensation to Mrs. GH. Stevens for services as assistant land assessor for the city of Norfolk.
Employment and labor, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 480

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2775 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 481

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1905 to 1922, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Civil Rights, Judicial, Labor, Healthcare, Education, Public officers, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 482

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1945 to 1953, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and to add six new sections to the said Code, to be numbered 1951a, 1951b, 1951c, 1951d, 1951e, and 1951f.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Custody of children, Employment and labor, Public officers, Civil Rights

Chapter 483

An ACT to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Marriage, Civil Rights, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 484

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children

Chapter 485

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizance, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918.
Amendments, Marriage, Custody of children, Divorce, Employment and labor, Public officers, Judicial, Pensions, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 486

An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation, and inspection of maternity hospitals, and to repeal sections 1925 to 1930, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public officers, Death and burial, Judicial, Divorce, Cemeteries

Chapter 487

An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation and inspection of children’s boarding houses and nurseries.
Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare

Chapter 488

An ACT to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918.
Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Charity, Death and burial, Divorce, Judicial, Healthcare, Pensions, Wards

Chapter 489

An ACT to regulate the employment of children
Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Education

Chapter 490

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5117 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to a widow’s dower.
Inheritance and succession, Marriage, Property

Chapter 491

An ACT in relation to a surviving husband’s curtesy.
Inheritance and succession, Marriage, Property

Chapter 492

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5264 of the Code of Virginia
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 493

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm bonds issued on election heretofore held authorizing the issuance of such bonds by any school district of the State for the purpose of building, rebuilding, or otherwise permanently improving the school buildings of said school district or for original equipment therefor.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 494

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2945 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 495

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5523, 5524, and 5525 of the Code of 1919.
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 496

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4909 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920.
Judicial, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 497

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 said town
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 498

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6426 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Property, Labor

Chapter 499

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5205 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Judicial, Lawyers

Chapter 500

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3555 of the Code of Virginia; and to repeal sections 3556, 3557, 3558, 3559, 3560 and 3561 of the Code of Virginia.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 501

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5121 of the Code of Virginia
Inheritance and succession, Marriage

Chapter 502

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5276 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 21, 1920.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 503

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5428 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Property

Chapter 504

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3504 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 3527 of the Code of 1887, as amended by chapter 392, Acts 1918, approved March 20, 1918.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 505

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 202 to 218, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal sections 219 and 220 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 506

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3246 of the Code of Virginia.
Fishing
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