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1926

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Chapter 505

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 541 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1920, and sections 545, 546-a, 3991 and 4435 of the Code of Virginia, section 546-a of which was added to the said Code by an act approved March 22, 1920, all of which sections relate to fires and fire protection.
Amendments, Fire fighters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 506

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2054, 2057 and 2058 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, which sections are in chapter 86 of the said Code, relating to ferries and bridges, and for other purposes.
Transportation

Chapter 507

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5786 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 236 of the said Code, in relation to actions for injuries.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Judicial

Chapter 508

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5115, chapter 205 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, concerning divorces.
Divorce

Chapter 509

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to make appropriation for its maintenance, approved March 23, 1922; to abolish the board of visitors of the Virginia school for the blind, created by an act approved March 21, 1924, and to confer upon the Virginia commission for the blind all the powers and to impose upon it all the duties of such board of visitors.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 510

An ACT to amend chapter 120 of the Code of Virginia, which chapter is in relation to the extension or contraction of corporate limits of cities and towns, by the addition thereto of a new section to be numbered 2958-a.
Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 511

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to trial justices.
Judicial, Amendments, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Public officers, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 512

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6316 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to bills of review.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 513

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 56 of the Code of Virginia, relating to cemeteries.
Cemeteries

Chapter 514

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 43 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to holding church property.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 515

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to justices of the peace.
Judicial, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 516

An ACT to repeal section 987 of the Code of Virginia which requires boards of education and eleemosynary institutions to report to the auditor.
Amendments, Education, Public officers

Chapter 517

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5103 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to divorces from the bond of matrimony.
Divorce, Marriage, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 518

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2802 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to removal to place of last settlement of any person coming into a locality who is likely to become a charge thereon.
Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 519

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5342 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the leasing and selling of lands of persons under disability.
Amendments, Property, Wards

Chapter 520

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to powers of a local nature conferred on boards of supervisors, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924.
Amendments, Transportation, Wildlife

Chapter 521

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 89 and 200 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, both of which relate to the pay officers.
Public officers, Voting

Chapter 522

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of title 12, chapter 46, of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate.
Amendments, Healthcare, Custody of children

Chapter 523

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5346 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the release of the right of dower of an insane wife and the right of curtesy of an insane husband in cases of sales and encumbrances.
Amendments, Marriage, Property, Judicial

Chapter 524

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 5186 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 210 of the said Code on acts which are valid between the parties, but void as to creditors and purchasers.
Debt, Property, Judicial

Chapter 525

An ACT to authorize licensed manufacturers to sell and deliver to licensed dealers without payment of any additional license tax.
Business, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 526

An ACT to abolish the officers of assessors of lands; to impose upon commissioners of the revenue all the duties and confer upon such commissioners all the powers heretofore imposed or conferred upon land assessors; and to provide for the compensation of such commissioners for performing the additional duties imposed upon them by this act; also to provide for the general reassessment of lands in cities containing more than 25,000 population or more.
Property, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 527

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 528

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24, 28, 31 and 32 of the charter of the city of Alexandria, approved February 20, 1871, as amended by an act approved February 22, 1871; and by an act approved the seventeenth day of March, 1876; and by an act approved March 20, 1877; and by an act approved January 25, 1879; and by an act approved March 1, 1888; and by an act approved February 25, 1892; and by an act approved February 26, 1894; and by an act approved March 1, 1894; and by an act approved March 8, 1894; and by an act approved February 27, 1896; and by an act approved March 3, 1896; and by an act approved March 4, 1896; and by an act approved February 7, 1898, providing the charter for the city of Alexandria and the acts amendatory thereof, relating to the lien of the city for taxes assessed on real estate.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation

Chapter 529

An ACT to provide that the State Board of Education shall not refuse to accredit any school in this State, or any diploma or certificate issued by such school, for the sole reason that such school is not being conducted in a building meeting the requirements of the State Board of Education.
Education

Chapter 531

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and provide for a new registration of voters in cities having not less than fifty thousand inhabitants, nor more than one hundred and sixty thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 532

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to officers of cities, their election or appointment and term of office.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 533

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, which said section is in chapter 109 of the sand Code on the subject of boards of supervisors.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 534

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (b) of section 2 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 535

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of supervisors.
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 536

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2158 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 25, 1920, and February 13, 1922, in relation to State depositories.
Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 537

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2698 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to bonds of officers.
Bonds, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 538

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1808 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act regulating the hours of labor of women
Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 539

An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to purchase the water works plant or system now operated by the Newport News Light and Water Company.
Bonds, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 540

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5349 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1922, and to repeal section 5348 of the Code, in relation to the transfer of property in this State belonging to non-resident decedents.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 541

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on fire, liability, casualty and workmen’s compensation insurance rates in Virginia, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said commission.
Public expenditures, Labor

Chapter 542

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2258 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, relative to filing of interrogatories and answers for assessing personal property for taxation.
Taxation

Chapter 543

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 552 of the Code of Virginia, requiring the State accountant to devise a system of bookkeeping and accounting for State and local officers.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 544

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of the attorneys for the Commonwealth, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1922, and March 21, 1924.
Amendments, Judicial, Lawyers, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 545

An ACT to require the boards of supervisors of the counties and the councils or other governing bodies of cities and towns to prepare and publish annual budgets, to hold public hearings thereon, and to give publicity to proposed increases in the local tax levies; to provide for regular audits by the State accountant in the counties, and to prescribe the duties and powers of such accountant in reference thereto.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 546

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 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, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Charity, Pensions, Taxation, Utilities

Chapter 547

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 43 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 one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 548

An ACT to provide for the payment of $1,298.28, subject to a credit of $114.00 to John H. McClellan to satisfy a judgment obtained against one R. B. Whitten, an agent and servant of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and employed by the highway department, as provided by law.
Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Transportation

Chapter 549

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4035, 4037 and 4038 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation, Public spaces, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 550

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Elkton, in Rockingham county, Virginia
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Healthcare, Education, Utilities, Public spaces, Charity

Chapter 551

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 of chapter 161 of the acts of assembly for 1923, as amended by act approved March 14, 1924, entitled an act providing for the regulation, supervision and control of persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation on the improved public highways of this State, which are or may hereafter be declared to be, parts of the State highway system or any of the county highway systems; declaring motor vehicle carriers, as hereinafter defined, to be common carriers, transportation companies and public service corporations within the meaning of the law; and prescribing and imposing license fees and providing for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
Transportation, Business, Civil Rights

Chapter 552

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3854 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922.
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Property

Chapter 553

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3788 as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in relation to subscriptions to capital stock.
Business, Amendments

Chapter 554

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended by an act approved March 24, 1922, in relation to corporations.
Amendments, Business

Chapter 555

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter V of an act concerning corporations
Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 556

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light, power, water and telephone companies, and providing for the control and regulation of such companies by the State Corporation Commission
Utilities, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 557

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Galax, situated in part in the county of Carroll and in part in the county of Grayson, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, approved February 25, 1922, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 66, in relation to a juvenile and domestic relations court.
Judicial, Children -- Institutional care, Municipal charters

Chapter 558

An ACT to appropriate $145.00 to reimburse Charles Cortlandt Walton, Jr., for expenditures made and bills incurred by him in the organization and recruiting of the Ninth Company, Virginia Coast Artillery, between the time its organization was authorized by the State and its muster into Federal service, August 4, 1917.
Armed forces, Budget

Chapter 559

An ACT to appropriate $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary to the State Board of Health, to maintain a pavilion at Blue Ridge Sanatorium for the year ending February 29, 1928, such pavilion to be constructed by the Masonic Relief Foundation of Virginia, Incorporated.
Healthcare, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 560

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2775 of the Code of Virginia requiring treasurers of counties and auditors of cities to file with the auditor of public accounts detailed statement of annual receipts and disbursements so as to hereafter require such reports to be made to the State accountant, and impose a fine for failure to make such reports, and to require the State accountant to prepare and cause to be published annually a statement showing in detail the comparative cost of local government as among counties and cities of the State and the per capita cost thereof; and to repeal an act approved February 15, 1924, entitled an act to require the State accountant to prepare and cause to be published annually a statement showing in detail the comparative cost of local government as among counties and cities of the State and the per capita cost thereof.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 561

An ACT for the relief of J. B. Ashbrook.
Public expenditures

Chapter 562

An ACT to authorize the State highway commission to relocate the section of route 18 of the State highway system, near the east approach to the bridge over the James river at Lynchburg, and running in a northeasterly direction for a distance of one mile more or less in Amherst county.
Transportation

Chapter 563

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial to Robert Edward Lee, approved March 20, 1922, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924.
Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 564

An ACT to amend and re-enact section | of an act entitled an act relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public free schools of the Commonwealth
Education

Chapter 565

An ACT requiring assistants and officers appointed by the motor vehicle commissioner and engaged in the enforcement of the laws concerning the operation of motor vehicles to give bond for the lawful and faithful discharge of their duties.
Transportation

Chapter 566

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 641 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to meetings of county school boards.
Education

Chapter 567

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3454 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the salaries of members of the general assembly.
Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 568

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1924, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1906, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virginia Beach, in the county of Princess Anne, Virginia; and to define the boundaries of the said town of Virginia Beach.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 569

An ACT requiring the separation of white and colored persons in public halls, theatres, opera houses, motion picture shows and places of public entertainment and public assemblages; and to provide a penalty for violation of the provisions thereof.
Segregation

Chapter 570

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county, and the incorporated towns in said county, to apply the whole or any part of the district road taxes now collected by law on intangible personal property or that may be collected by law in the future to the maintenance of the public free schools of said county of Henry.
Education, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 571

An ACT to amend chapter 243 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to circuit and other courts, by the addition thereto of a new section to be numbered 5901-a, in relation to judges pro tempore.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 572

AN ACT to authorize the board of the Virginia Teachers Colleges and the council of the city of Radford to exchange certain strips of land
Education, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 573

An ACT to regulate the parking of vehicles in the capitol square, and to protect the grass therein.
Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 574

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county
Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 575

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of chapter 161 of the acts of assembly for 1923, commonly known as the motor vehicle carrier act, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1924.
Amendments, Agriculture, Transportation, Business

Chapter 576

An ACT concerning taxation; to segregate for the purposes of taxation, the several kinds or classes of property, so as to specify and determine upon what subjects State taxes, and upon what subjects local taxes, may be levied; to amend and re-enact sections 2205, 2206, 2207 and 2212 of the Code of Virginia; to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 2914, 31, 33, 35, 36 and 36% of the tax bill, as heretofore amended; to repeal section 2209 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in “the State highway system,” and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh, inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State, and to extend the work of the State board of health, approved March 16, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise additional revenue for the support of the government, approved March 23, 1918; to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in the “State highway system,” approved September 5, 1919; to repeal sections 2 and 7 of the tax bill, in relation to real estate and tangible personal property; to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the situs of taxation of bank stock, approved March 16, 1918; to raise revenue for the support of the government and to provide a minimum fixed appropriation of State revenue for public free school purposes and to provide penalties for violations of this act.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Healthcare, Public officers, Industry, Property

Chapter 577

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 2430-a, in relation to the compensation of treasurers of cities who do not handle local revenues, for receiving and paying over State revenues, such local revenues being handled in such cities by city collectors in pursuance of the charters of such cities.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 578

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3799 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who shall be entitled to vote at meetings of stockholders of corporations, and prescribing the number of votes allowed for each share.
Business, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 579

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6049 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to venue in actions at law and suits in equity.
Judicial, Amendments, Public officers, Business, Property

Chapter 580

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 3 and 19 of an act entitled an act to enact into law the rules and regulations of the dairy and food commissioner fixed and established by and with the approval of the board of agriculture and immigration, concerning food and food products and the sanitation of all places used in the manufacture, packing, storing, sale or distribution of food or food products
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 581

An ACT to prevent fraud and deception at certain auctions in this State; to regulate such auctions; to provide for licenses and bonds and to prescribe penalties.
Business, Judicial, Amendments, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 582

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5465 of the Code of Virginia; relating to evidence in actions of ejectment and unlawful detainer in certain cases.
Property, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 583

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5791 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, providing for the liability of intrastate common carriers by railroad operated by steam for injury to, or death of, employees.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 584

An ACT amend and re-enact section 245% of the Code of Virginia what may be distrained for taxes; fees of officers; notice to tenant.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property, Amendments
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