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1928

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 204

An ACT to allow boards of supervisors and councils or other governing bodies in cities of the Commonwealth the power to collect, preserve, etc. the histories of the several counties and cities of the State.
Municipal charters

Chapter 205

An ACT to provide for the submission to the people for ratification or rejection the proposed revision and/or amendments of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, Al, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197 of the Constitution of Virginia (a part of which said sections have not been altered but remain as they are in the present Constitution, but have been included in said proposed revision), and the addition thereto of seven new sections to be numbered as sections 86a, 115a, 183a, 184a, 184b, 195a and 198, and the repeal of sections 128, 148, 149, 150, 151 and 182 of the present Constitution, all as authorized by section 196 of the present Constitution; to provide when and how such election shall be held; to designate the persons who may vote in such election; and to provide for the ascertainment and proclamation of the result of such election.
Amendments, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights, Property

Chapter 206

An ACT to prohibit the display upon any motor vehicle, the insignia or emblem of any motor vehicle club or organization—penalty therefor.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 207

An ACT relating to the reorganization of fraternal benefit societies into mutual life insurance companies.
Fraternal organizations, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3348 of the Code of Virginia, relating to trapping, et cetera, fur-bearing or hair-bearing animals on the lands of another.
Hunting

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent damage and injuries by dogs, and to provide compensation to owners of stock so injured; to provide for license on dogs and to provide for penalties for violations thereof; to provide compensation to owners of fowl so injured, and to provide funds for the enforcement of this act therefrom
Agriculture, Property, Public spaces, Public expenditures

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph first, subsection “b” of paragraph second and paragraph fourth of section 3356 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unlawful hunting and possession of game and other birds and animals.
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, as heretofore amended.
Voting, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 212

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6007 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the pay and mileage of jurors im civil cases.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 213

An ACT to define a “mob,” and a “lynching”; to provide for the punishment of persons composing a “mob,” the actions of which result in the injury or death of another person; to prescribe penalties therefor; to provide for the recovery of damages therefor from any person or persons composing the mob; to prescribe the jurisdiction of courts in actions and prosecutions under the provisions of this act.
Lynching, Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Death and burial, Vagrancy

Chapter 214

An ACT for the relief of the estates of L. H. Kemp and E. L. Tiller, deceased, and for the relief of W. L. Brittle, W. M. Milam and Robert Rose.
Agriculture, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 215

An ACT to authorize the Governor, in conjunction with the State highway commission, and local road authorities, to hold regional meetings for the purpose of co-ordinating the State and local road construction program; and to provide for the expenses thereof.
Transportation

Chapter 216

An ACT to create an advisory and research commission to investigate and report upon the question of freight rates, freight rate discriminations, and the development of water-ways; to prescribe its powers and duties, and to make an appropriation to pay the expenses of the said commission.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments, Budget

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 23 of the acts of assembly, 1922, entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Cumberland county to levy a special district road tax for Hamilton district in Cumberland county, Virginia, and to pay out of the same certain debts due to contractors for work done on roads in said district
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to provide for protection of school children upon the streets and highways, when being transported to and from school by buses and other vehicles.
Children -- Institutional care, Education, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 220

An ACT to repeal sections 3316, 3318, 3319, 3320, 3322, 3323, 3326, and 3342 of the Code of Virginia and to amend and re-enact subsections first, second and third of section 3306 of the Code of Virginia.
Gambling, Hunting, Wildlife, Public officers

Chapter 221

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hanover county to set up in a special fund the proceeds derived from the sale of property formerly used for the general reception of the poor of said county, and to invest the same, and use the income therefrom, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the care and maintenance of the poor of said county.
Charity, Public expenditures, Cemeteries

Chapter 222

An ACT to permit public utility corporations to put into effect, subject to discretion of the State corporation commission to the contrary, reductions in rates and charges by filing schedule or schedules of such revisions without giving notice to the commission, to its patrons, or to the public, for any particular period of time.
Utilities

Chapter 223

An ACT to provide for a commission to confer with a similar commission to be appointed by the State of Maryland and, subject to the approval of the general assembly of Virginia, to endeavor to reach a satisfactory settlement of the dispute now existing between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland, with reference to the right of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia to fish in the Potomac river: to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and to provide a sum sufficient to pay the actual expenses of the members of the commission and such other incidental expenses as may be incurred in the performance of the duties required by this act.
Fishing, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 224

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3796 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conduct of meetings of corporations, ete.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4489 of the Code of Virginia, relating to forgery, and making it apply to any person who shall, by any false pretense or token, obtain the signature of another person to a writing, with intent to defraud.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 226

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) dollars, and to issue bonds therefor for the surveying, repairing, constructing, improving, and hard-surfacing certain roads, and repairing and building bridges thereon, in Pine Creek magisterial district, of the county of Carroll;
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 61 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, page 637, commonly known as the “workmen’s compensation law,” as last SETAE by chapter 7 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 7.
Employment and labor, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 154 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to tax and time of exhibitions and advertisements of circuses and carnivals.
Amusement, Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 229

An ACT to provide the method of collecting delinquent local taxes and levies in counties having a density of population equal to five hundred or more to the square mile.
Taxation

Chapter 230

An ACT to provide for the transfer of certain public records to the State library board; to prescribe the duties of the State librarian and the State library board in connection with such records, and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 231

An ACT declaring the location of routes 351 and 105, as established by the State highway commission, under the two and one-half percent clause, and annulling route 125.
Transportation

Chapter 232

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (c) of section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia and to add a new subsection to the said section 25 of the Tax Code of Virginia to be designated (m), the said subsections being in relation to deductions allowed under the income tax law; also to amend and re-enact sections 71, 72, 73, 77, and 91 of the Tax Code of Virginia which sections are in chapter 7 and 8 of the Tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of intangible personal property and banks, banking associations and trust companies.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Employment and labor, Bonds

Chapter 233

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (i) of section 6, and section 7, of an act entitled “an act to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies other than life, providing a penalty for any violation hereof and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 16, 1920.
Business, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuance of county bonds for constructing and operating water supply systems in the magisterial districts of certain counties of the State; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity, and to provide for the construction and operation of such water supply systems
Bonds, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 235

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 324 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act to require persons sixteen years of age or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents, who are in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and to repeal an act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more, approved March 19, 1920, approved March 20, 1922.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the compensation and mileage of a judge holding a court other than his own.
Judicial, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5342 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the sale of lands of persons under disabilities.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Property

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to service of jurors.
Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 239

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3613, 3615, 3625 and 3638 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State high-<br />way system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial<br />to Robert E. Lee, approved March 20, 1922. [H B 179]
Transportation, Monuments and memorials, Amendments

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia of 1919 by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered section 456l-a, which new section relates to the construction of the word animal in the preceding eight sections.
Agriculture

Chapter 242

An ACT to provide for the destruction of papers and records in the office of the director of the division of motor vehicles which are unnecessary, or, which it is unnecessary to preserve for over a limited period.
Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 243

An ACT declaring annulled the section of route 13, from Totusky bridge to Callao, as established by the State highway commission under the two per cent and two and one-half per cent clauses of the law, and re-establishing the same.
Transportation

Chapter 244

An ACT to provide for a commission to confer with representatives of the District of Columbia and Maryland for the purpose of providing uniformity in laws relating to motor vehicle tax and traffic regulations.
Transportation, Taxation, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 245

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1987 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the levy of a district road tax, the limit thereof, its collection and expenditures, and providing for an increase thereof in Mathews county.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1498 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to local health officers.
Healthcare

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 273 of the acts of 1874, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
Municipal charters, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 251

An ACT for the relief of John L. Yates
Alcohol, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 252

An ACT for the relief of Hermitage Park Corporation.
Business, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6439 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the perfection and enforcement of mechanics’ and supply liens.
Business, Judicial

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3209 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by chapter 143 of the acts of assembly of 1924, page 257, relating to nonresident fishing license.
Fishing

Chapter 255

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 4 and 5 of section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to trial justices.
Judicial, Salaries, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 256

An ACT to prescribe the form and require the use of a standard fire insurance policy in the State of Virginia.
Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 257

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 18l-a, so as to impose a license tax upon instalment paper handlers or dealers.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3511 of the Code of Virginia as to fees in criminal cases.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Salaries

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 89 and 200 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 521 of the acts of 1926, relating to the pay of officers and members of electoral boards.
Public officers, Voting

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3228 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to subrenting or assignment of oyster planting grounds.
Business, Property, Transportation

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4332 of the Code of Virginia, relating to assessment for mutual assessment, co-operative, fire, lightning and storm insurance companies.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Amendments

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4235 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 514 of the acts of assembly of 1922, page 894, as to filing list of agents of insurance companies.
Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty of chapter one hundred and sixty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, as amended by chapter one hundred and thirty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, relating to the charter of the town of Pocahontas, Virgimia.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4235 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 514 of the acts of assembly of 1922, page 804, as to the filing list of agents of insurance companies.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 265

An ACT to provide for the placing of permanent markers on the lines of surveys and resurveys of oyster planting grounds made by the commission of fisheries.
Public expenditures

Chapter 266

An ACT to authorize the commission of fisheries to employ a civil engineer; to prescribe his duties, and fix his compensation.
Fishing, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 267

An ACT to repeal section 190 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to motor vehicles for hire.
Taxation

Chapter 268

An ACT to prohibit the placing of fish traps in the north or south forks of the Shenandoah river in Warren county, and prescribing penalties.
Fishing

Chapter 269

An ACT for the protection of certain game, birds and animals in the county of Chesterfield.
Hunting

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 276 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1922 entitled an act to provide for the entmeration of the veterans, the wives and the widows of veterans of the Confederate army and navy, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the enumeration of the veterans of the Confederate army and navy, approved March 20, 1920, approved March 15, 1922.
Amendments, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 271

An ACT to name route thirty-two of the State highway system "the James Madison highway."
Transportation

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 882 of the Code of Virginia as last amended by an act approved March 15, 1924.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 273

An ACT to prohibit the construction, maintenance or operation of toll bridges across, in or over the navigable waters of the State, without a permit from the State highway commission, to provide for the purchase of such bridges by the State, and the control and regulation thereof by the State corporation commission in the meantime.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 274

An ACT for the relief of Jessie Tyson.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Employment and labor

Chapter 275

An ACT to authorize the city of Williamsburg, and the county of James City, to convey to W. A. R. Goodwin, agent, and to his successors, property and property rights owned by the said city and county.
Public spaces, Property, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 276

An ACT to provide for a place for holding elections in East, West and North Appalachia voting districts or precincts in the county of Wise.
Voting

Chapter 277

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Roanoke county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Municipal charters, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Employment and labor, Death and burial, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Law Enforcement, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 278

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of North Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell, to borrow money not in excess of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), and to issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of making a gift or contribution thereof to American Legion, Sidney Coulling Post, No. 133, to partially defray the cost, charges and expenses of erecting a memorial building on that lot of land located in the town of Tazewell, Tazewell county, Virginia, and mentioned in chapter No. 64 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, enacted in 1926, and to provide for the payment of the interest on the said bonds and the payment and redemption of the principal thereof.
Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 279

An ACT for the relief of the estate of Timothy Rives; and to authorize the payment from the treasury to his executors and executrix, the sum of $2,020.00, for services rendered during the last four years of his term of office as Commonwealth’s attorney of Prince George county.
Public expenditures, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 280

An ACT to authorize the city school board of the city of South Norfolk to borrow money not in excess of $150,000.00, and to issue its bonds therefor, to be used for the construction of a high school for white children in the city of South Norfolk, and to require the council of said city, annually to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Education, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 281

An ACT to provide for the recordation of plats of subdivision of land located in or within not more than five miles of any city of a population not in excess of 100,000, according to the last United States census, for the vacation thereof, for the construction of public improvements therein and for the rights of such cities in connection therewith.
Property, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 282

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk to borrow money by the issuance of bonds in a sum no to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the purpose of building and improving roads and bridges in the said county, and to sell the said bonds and to provide for their payment, and to authorize the commission of roads and bridges to expend the said funds when appropriated to it by the said board of supervisors.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 283

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Dickenson to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $12,000.00 and to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness of the said county therefor, for the purpose of constructing and repairing the bridges in Willis magisterial district of said county; and to provide for the payment of the interest upon said
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 284

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 208 of the acts of 1926, entitled an act to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Princess Anne to borrow money by the issuance of bonds in the aggregate sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) for the purpose of purchasing, building and improving roads and bridges in Seaboard magisterial district in said county; to sell the said bonds; to provide for the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof and to authorize the commission of roads and bridges of Princess Anne county for Seaboard magisterial district, to dispense the funds so obtained, approved March 18, 1926, by adding thereto two new sections to be numbered sections 8a and 8b, providing for the expenditure of the surplus of the funds raised under this act.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 285

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Gate City, in the county of Scott, to grant permission for the establishment of a cemetery within said town.
Cemeteries, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act requiring permits to be obtained for the construction, repair or improvement of buildings or structures in counties having a density of population ef more than 300 per square mile, according to the United States census, approved February 26, 1926.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 287

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March 24, 1922, by adding thereto four sections, to be numbered 21%, 1314, 1814 and 4014, and by amending and re-enacting sections 4, 9, 17, 18.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of chapter 473 of the acts of 1924, 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 or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 289

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in counties of the State adjoining a city having a population, according to the last preceding United States census, of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants or more; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts; and to provide for the issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for establishing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary districts, approved March 17, 1926, so as to make the same apply to counties having a population greater than 500 inhabitants to the square mile.
Amendments

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5947 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of the court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke.
Judicial, Inheritance and succession, Pensions

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 23 and 32 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved Septemter 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk, and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 105 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to inheritance taxes in certain cities.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 293

An ACT to authorize the clerk of the circuit court of Henricv county to attest the correctness of the orders of said court entered at special terms of said court on the ninth and twenty-seventh days of December, 1927.
Judicial

Chapter 294

An ACT to authorize the board of directors of the Central State Hospital, at Petersburg, to convey a certain portion of the real estate belonging to said hospital, to the United States, for inclusion in the Petersburg National Military Park.
Public spaces

Chapter 295

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Gloucester and Mathews to appropriate funds for the purpose of contributing toward placing markers upon the graves of Confederate soldiers buried in such counties.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 296

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Appalachia, in Wise county, to issue and sell bonds of said town to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) for the purpose of funding and refunding existing indebtedness of said town and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg, as defined by chapter 507 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1884, and as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Salaries

Chapter 298

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Bluefield, in the county of Tazewell, to borrow money and issue notes or other certificates of indebtedness for the purpose of paying off and discharging an indebtedness against the municipal building owned by the said town of Bluefield.
Budget, Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 299

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Rockingham to adopt an ordinance or regulation requiring land-owners along the public roads of said county to keep free of weeds, brush and other foreign vegetation their land abutting such public roads.
Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 300

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Fluvanna county to levy an additional capitation tax, which shall be applied in aid of the public schools of the said county, or for such other county purposes as the said board shall determine.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 301

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7 and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, and to repeal all acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 1/7, 1926, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 5a.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 302

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 42 of the acts of 1901-2, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries in Grayson county, Virginia, approved December 21, 1901.
Amendments, Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 303

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Newport News to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $45,000.00, and to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness therefor, for the purpose of purchasing property, if necessary, and for the establishment, construction and equipment of a public library and reading room in said city, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and the redemption of the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Libraries

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 45 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Salem, Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith
Amendments, Municipal charters, Salaries

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county, approved February 18, 1924.
Judicial, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 306

An ACT for the protection of foxes in the county of Halifax.
Hunting, Wildlife
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