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1926

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3775 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109, chapter 11 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Voting, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 307

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Roanoke and Floyd counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twentieth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 308

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Jack McCulloch.
Alcohol, Death and burial, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for the county of Loudoun; to provide for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads in said county and to create separate road districts in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to provide for the care and protection of the property of the several district road boards
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 310

An ACT authorizing the town of Leesburg, Virginia, to issue bonds with which to refund the present outstanding water bonds
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 311

An ACT authorizing the military board to sell and convey or exchange certain property belonging to the Commonwealth in Princess Anne county, known as Camp Trinkle, at such time and for such price and upon such conditions as said military board may deem advisable, and to use the proceeds of sale for the purchase and equipment of a camp site and rifle range elsewhere.
Armed forces, Property, Transportation

Chapter 312

An ACT to authorize the hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint a bail commissioner for the city
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 313

An ACT to prescribe the time for the holding of courts of the sixth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 314

An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the probation officer of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county.
Judicial, Salaries, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 315

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Arlington county to establish and maintain, or cause to be established and maintained, public sewers.
Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 316

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, in Louisa county, approved March 8, 1873, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 317

An ACT in relation to the recordation of plats subdividing tracts of land situated in Arlington county.
Property, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Transportation

Chapter 318

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Voting, Budget, Taxation, Public spaces, Education, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Death and burial, Cemeteries

Chapter 319

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2 of section 5 of an act approved March 27, 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require them to pay the same into the treasury, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1914; and to require the clerk in connection therewith, to keep a record of fees received.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 320

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5316, 5317 and 5318 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of guardians and their bonds.
Custody of children, Bonds

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6232 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to depositions.
Judicial

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5252 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to when deposition of witness may be taken and read on probate of will.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2149 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to licenses for public garages.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5167 of the Code of Virginia, relating to deeds of trust.
Property, Debt, Business

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6279 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compensation of special commissioners of sale, acting under an order of court.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 326

An ACT to amend chapter 191 of the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 4822-a, in relation to search warrants.
Judicial

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4973 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to recognizances in criminal cases.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend chapter 407 of the acts of assembly of 1924, commonly known as the prohibition law, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 72-a, in relation to the issuance of licenses to partnerships engaged in the retail drug business in the State.
Alcohol, Business, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the distribution of personal estate.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising and making such advertising a misdemeanor and providing penalties
Business, Amendments

Chapter 331

An ACT to permit the filing and trials of certain cross-claims in certain cases for torts.
Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5187 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, entitled to prevent persons engaged in buying and selling merchandise, while indebted, from selling their entire stock of merchandise in bulk, or selling the major portion thereof, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade.
Business, Debt, Property, Judicial

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend chapter 448 of the acts of assembly of 1920 in relation to a bond issue for roads in the county of Carroll, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 7-a.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 334

An ACT providing for the restoration to its former condition, as far as possible, of that portion of the capitol building formerly constituting the hall of the house of delegates and for the removal of the exhibits therein, and authorizing the placing of tablets and paintings therein, and appropriating the sum of five hundred dollars for the removal of said exhibits.
Public spaces, Legislative Amendments, Budget

Chapter 335

An ACT to permit the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to place in one of the vacant niches in the rotunda of the capitol, a suitable bust of Robert Edward Lee.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 336

An ACT to create a commission to represent the State in arranging and carrying out a program for the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington, and to define the powers and duties of the commission.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 337

An ACT to provide how deeds, gifts, devises and bequests to Jackson Memorial Hospital, of Lexington, Virginia, construed.
Charity, Healthcare

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6510 of the Code, relating to garnishments.
Debt, Judicial, Business

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1737, 1738, 1739, 1740, 1743, 1744, 1745, 1748, 1750, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780 and 1781 of the Code of Virginia relating to drainage districts
Amendments, Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities, Recreation

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 672 of the Code of Virginia; condemnation of land for school houses.
Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5912 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, relating to the courts of the city of Richmond.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 342

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4473 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the unlawful shooting at, or throwing stones or other missiles at or against, certain trains, cars, vessels, motor vehicles and other vehicles carrying passengers.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 343

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 5133-a, which new section relates to the commutation of certain life estates.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5905 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to corporation or hustings courts.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 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 county of Princess Anne
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Voting

Chapter 346

An ACT to provide for a commission of roads and bridges for Kempsville magisterial district, in the county of Princess Anne, and to prescribe its powers and duties.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget, Property, Public officers

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 58 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1920, by adding thereto subsection “k,” regulating the management of its waterworks.
Municipal charters, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 348

An Act to Amend and Re-enact Subsection 7 and 11 of Section 2 and Section 56 of an Act Entitled an Act to Provide a New Charter for the City of Roanoke and to Repeal the Existing Charter of Said City and the Several Acts Amendatory Thereof and All Other Acts and Parts of Acts Inconsistent with This Act So Far as They Relate to the City of Roanoke
Amendments, Budget, Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities, Education, Property, Pensions

Chapter 349

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (c) of section 27 of the Roanoke charter of 1924, in relation to the jurisdiction and procedure of the civil and police justice.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Alcohol

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 90 and 91 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, approved March 19, 1915.
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation, Pensions

Chapter 351

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 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 provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Registration of births, etc.

Chapter 352

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Stuart, in the county of Patrick, to issue not exceeding thirty-two thousand dollars of bonds for the purpose of funding and refunding outstanding indebtedness of said town and providing for the levy of taxes to pay interest and principal of said bonds.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 353

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2385 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 16, 1920, and March 20, 1924; sections 2386, 2387 and 2388 of the said Code; section 2389 of the said Code, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920; and sections 2390 and 2391 of the said Code, all of which sections relate to redress against erroneous assessments of taxes and levies.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Property, Judicial

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 107 of the tax bill, as heretofore amended, in relation to licenses for shows, carnivals and other exhibitions and performances.
Amusement, Circus, Charity, Taxation

Chapter 355

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to levy district road taxes in excess of the maximum now authorized by general law, and to provide for the collection and expenditure thereof.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 356

An ACT to provide for budgeting the funds of the department of game and inland fisheries.
Budget

Chapter 357

An ACT to provide for co-operative road construction between the county, magisterial districts and citizens of the county of Campbell.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 358

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of the act entitled an act to raise revenue for 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
Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public officers, Industry, Budget

Chapter 359

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow public officials in Virginia, both State and local, to deposit records in the Virginia State Library, approved March 15, 1918, and to authorize the State Librarian to remove such records to the State Library in certain cases.
Libraries, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 360

An ACT authorizing the county school board of Madison county to borrow money for the purpose of paying off existing indebtedness of said board, and to issue its bonds therefor, and to require the board of supervisors of said county to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Education, Budget, Debt, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 361

An ACT to refund to the city of Richmond the sum of three thousand, two hundred and thirty-three and 79/100 dollars, representing the tax paid by it on motor vehicle fuel from July 1, 1923, to December 31, 1923.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 362

An ACT to prevent the use of sink boxes or batteries in the waters of Accomac and Northampton counties.
Hunting

Chapter 363

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Southampton to levy, for local school purposes, a county or district tax, in addition to the maximum now authorized by general law, on all property in said county or in any magisterial and school district thereof subject to taxation for local school purposes by said board of supervisors, and to authorize the commissioners of the town of Franklin, to levy, for local school purposes, a district school tax, in addition to the maximum now authorized by general law, on all property in said town subject to taxation for school purposes.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 364

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Belle Haven, in Accomac county, approved December 14, 1895, as heretofore amended.
Incorporation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 365

An ACT authorizing the county school board of Lee county to borrow money, not in excess of $65,000.00, and to issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting, repairing and improving school buildings in Rocky Station school district; and requiring the board of supervisors of the said county annually to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Education, Budget, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 366

An ACT to grant to the landowners in Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia, below the mouth of Little river, abutting on and adjacent to New river, the privilege of mining coal and other minerals under New river, to the center thereof.
Property, Industry

Chapter 367

An ACT authorizing the town of Bowling Green to appropriate a sum not exceeding $20,000.00 toward the erection of a public school building in the said town and fot such other school purposes as the council of said town may deem proper, and to levy a tax to pay said appropriations.
Education, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 368

An ACT to appropriate to the commission on conservation and development the sum of $50,000.00 for each of the years of the biennium ending February 29, 1928, the same to constitute a State advertising fund.
Budget, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 369

An ACT empowering the board of supervisors of James City county to authorize the supervisor of Stonehouse district to expend certain funds on road number nine, from end of concrete to New Kent county line.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 370

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to guarantee to the public schools of the counties of Page and Greene the full school term stipulated in the teachers’ contracts with the county school board, approved March 29, 1923, in so far as said act affects Page county.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 371

An ACT to authorize and require certain district school taxes to be levied in the county of Isle of Wight, and to provide for the collection and expenditure of the funds derived from such levies.
Education, Taxation

Chapter 372

An Act to authorize the County School Board of Lunenburg County to borrow not in excess of $12,000.00 on behalf of Brown Store and Plymouth school districts for the purpose of refunding certain bonds of the said school districts maturing June 1, 1926.
Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 373

An ACT to validate, approve, and confirm the expenditure of the sum of one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-one cents ($1,780.51), by the board of supervisors of Fairfax county, Virginia, being part of the proceeds of the sale of bonds for road improvement in Dranesville magisterial district, in said county
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 374

An ACT to prohibit catching or destroying fish in the waters of Wise and Dickenson counties, except with hook and line; and penalty therefor.
Fishing

Chapter 375

An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish in certain waters of Milford Haven, Hills Bay, and the Piankitank river by means of a haul seine or drag net.
Fishing

Chapter 376

An ACT to provide that no person, otherwise entitled to attend any public high school in the counties of Amherst, Nelson, Louisa, Tazewell, Fluvanna, Goochland, Dinwiddie and Campbell, shall be denied such privilege because of the non-payment by him or her, or someone for him or her, of any tuition charge.
Education

Chapter 377

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924, relating to pete of boards of supervisors.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Property, Wildlife, Transportation

Chapter 378

An ACT for the relief of the members of the board of supervisors of the county of Fauquier.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 379

AN ACT to make it unlawful for any person falsely to personate a sheriff, constable, police officer, marshal or other peace officer.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 380

An ACT authorizing any corporation organized under the laws of the State of Virginia, to insure for its benefit, the life of any of its directors, officers and employees, and to pay, and to continue to pay the premiums therefor.
Business

Chapter 381

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more
Voting, Public officers, Amendments, Budget

Chapter 382

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4455 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the fraudulent conversion or removal of property subject to a lien or the title to which is in another.
Property

Chapter 383

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3250 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to licenses for selling or removing seed oysters from certain grounds.
Agriculture, Fishing

Chapter 384

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3172 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, regulating the size of fish that may be caught.
Fishing

Chapter 385

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act licensing the taking or catching of scallops with scrapes from the public grounds of the Commonwealth, and providing for the designation of public scallop grounds
Fishing

Chapter 386

An ACT to prohibit the leasing or assignment of certain 'oyster bottom in the Rappahannock river.
Fishing

Chapter 387

An ACT requiring all oysters from the public rocks of the Commonwealth to be inspected when loading on vessels; measurements, tax; penalties.
Agriculture, Business, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 388

An ACT for the protection of foxes or other fur-bearing or hair-bearing animals, in Amelia, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Brunswick, Charlotte, Franklin, Tazewell, Washington, and Chesterfield counties, and to provide punishment for the violation thereof.
Hunting, Wildlife, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 389

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the waters of Clinch river and its tributaries, in the county of Russell, approved March 24, 1920; and to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the streams and watercourses of Russell county, approved paren 14, 1924.
Fishing

Chapter 390

An ACT designating the open season for hunting deer in Nansemond, and Chesterfield counties, and prescribing penalties.
Hunting

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the protection of fish in the Shenandoah river and its tributaries, approved March 12, 1906, and continued in force by section 3218 of the Code of Virginia, and to add an additional section to be known as section 4-a, relating to protection of fish in tributaries of the Potomac west of the Blue Ridge mountains.
Fishing

Chapter 392

An ACT prescribing the time for catching shad in the waters of the Commonwealth.
Fishing

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 3 of section 3299 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, the said section being in chapter 129 of the said Code on the subject of Potomac river statutes.
Fishing

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3249 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to seed oysters.
Agriculture, Amendments, Business, Fishing, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanley in Page county, Virginia
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Boundaries

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4112 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to issue of acceptances and letters of credits by banks.
Amendments, Business

Chapter 397

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4101 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to branch banks.
Business

Chapter 398

An ACT to require officers appointed by the attorney general to engage in the enforcement of laws concerning intoxicating liquors to give bond with condition for the faithful and lawful discharge of their duties.
Alcohol

Chapter 399

An ACT to appropriate to the military board of the State of Virginia the sum of $4,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used to defray the expenses incident to certain litigation now pending in reference to the State rifle range and camp at Virginia Beach.
Armed forces, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 400

An ACT to require the approval of the qualified voters of the county of Washington on certain local questions; to prohibit the board of supervisors of the said county from appropriating the county levy for certain purposes; to require the division superintendent of schools and members of the board of supervisors of the said county to be bonded, and to make them liable on their official bonds in certain cases; and to limit the rates of levy in the said county; also, to authorize and direct the county school board of Washington county to borrow a sum not in excess of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and to issue its notes therefor, the proceeds to be used to pay the existing school indebtedness of the school districts of the county and to replace funds expended during the present year for indebtedness incurred during the last preceding year or years; and providing for the levy and collection of a tax for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures, Debt, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 401

An ACT to permit the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary to dispose of certain parcels of land.
Property, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 402

An ACT to authorize the special board of directors of the Eastern State Hospital to convey to the city of Williamsburg, for cemetery purposes, not exceeding two acres of the lands of such hospital.
Cemeteries, Public expenditures

Chapter 403

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the roads of the county of Louisa
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 404

An Act Authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Lee County to Borrow Money and Issue Bonds for Road and Bridge Construction in Rocky Station Magisterial District
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures
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