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1928

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 412

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2958 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the extension or contraction of corporate limits of cities and towns.
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 413

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of chapter 407 of the acts of 1924, relating to intoxicating liquors, so as to prohibit the operation of automobiles by persons while intoxicated or under the influence of narcotic drugs, or self-administered intoxicants of any nature, and to require clerks of courts and justices to report such convictions to the director of the division of motor vehicles.
Alcohol, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 414

An ACT to prohibit any person from shooting from any duck blind belonging to another, in the waters of Middlesex county; limiting the number of duck blinds to be built by any person, and prescribing penalties for violation.
Hunting, Property

Chapter 415

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2569, of the Code of Virginia, relating to relief from fines.
Amendments, Judicial, Death and burial, Divorce, Public officers

Chapter 416

An ACT to create the “Cape Henry memorial commission.” and define its powers.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 417

An ACT to authorize the councils of the cities to provide for the cutting of weeds and other foreign growth on vacant property.
Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 418

An ACT to authorize the execution of an oil painting of Samuel H. Newberry, of Bland county; Peyton G. Hale, of Grayson county; A. M. Lybrook, of Patrick county, and B. F. Williams, of Nottoway county (known as the “big four’), and John E. Massey and to have the same placed in the State Capitol.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 419

An ACT authorizing certain counties and cities in this State to establish a mosquito control district or districts; to provide for a governing body or commission, their appointment and duties; to provide for the creation, operation and management of such district. or districts, and to provide for the issuance of bonds and a sinking fund and for financing the same, to authorize the levy of a tax and appropriating funds.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 420

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5316, 5317, 5318 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to what courts or clerks may appoint guardians.
Custody of children

Chapter 421

An ACT to authorize the commission of game and inland fisheries, in its discretion, to permit kennel dogs to run at large at such times as it may deem proper.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 422

An ACT to amend sections 1257, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1261, 1262, 1263, 1264 and 1265, relating to licensing, bonding, and regulating commission merchants, and punishment for violations.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 423

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 said Code on the subject of boards cof supervisors.
Amendments, Public officers, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 424

An ACT declaring the control of the Commonwealth over the -:vaters
Utilities

Chapter 425

An ACT to empower the State library board to make such disposition as it may see fit, involving surrender of title, of a portrait labelled as that of Robert Brooke, governor of Virginia, now hanging in the governor's mansion, some disposition thereof being called for on the petition of Dr. T. V. Brooke, of Pittsylvania county, and his sisters.
Monuments and memorials, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 426

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

Chapter 427

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5431 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to investments that may be made by executors and other fiduciaries.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 428

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the sale of lots purchased by the Commonwealth for delinquent taxes and not redeemed within four years or more
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 429

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto new section to be numbered section 171-a, in relation to wholesale merchandise brokers who sell only to wholesalers or manufacturers, and whose gross profits are measured principally by commissions.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 430

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4902 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to juries being kept together and expense
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 431

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

Chapter 432

An ACT to repeal section 3945 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, requiring railroads to establish and maintain telegraphic and telephonic offices along their lines and prescribing the duties of operators and train dispatchers.
Transportation, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 433

An ACT to provide for the organization, maintenance and supervision of a fire, windstorm, lightning, tornado, hail, and automobile fire and theft insurance rate making bureau; to provide for the making and filing of such rates by the bureau, insurance companies and other insurers; whether stock, mutual, reciprocal or inter-insurer; to generally regulate rate making agreements; to prohibit discrimination; and to empower the State corporation commission to fix, approve, alter or reduce such rates; providing penalties for violations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Business, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 434

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, by acts approved March 27, 1922, March 15, 1924 and March 23, 1926, in relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal courts.
Judicial

Chapter 435

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3405 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports by clerks of courts of the business of such courts, and to repeal so much of section 306 of the Code as requires abstracts of reports made by clerks of courts to the clerk of the house of delegates to be made by him to the general assembly.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 436

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-five hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted, in relation to fines.
Judicial, Public officers, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 437

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved March 24, 1924, which appears as chapter 477 on page 761 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, relating to the inspection of gasoline.
Amendments, Agriculture, Business, Utilities

Chapter 438

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend ard re-enact an act approved March 20, 1920, entitled an act in relation to local school taxes; and repealing sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of Virginia, by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section la, relating to Incal school taxes in the county of Lee approved March 7, 1924, as amended by chapter 62 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 70.
Education, Taxation

Chapter 439

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4685 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to operation of slot machines, punch boards or similar devices.
Gambling, Amendments, Business

Chapter 440

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the disability of a person holding office or employ-ment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.
Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 441

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3225 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to oyster grounds.
Agriculture, Business, Fishing, Property, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 442

An ACT defining and regulating co-operative non-profit life benefit corporations with representative form of government, providing the term:
Business, Charity, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 443

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4555 of the Code of Virginia, of 1919, relating to officers and agents of societies for prevention of cruelty to animals, given power to arrest offenders.
Civil Rights, Public officers, Charity

Chapter 444

An ACT requiring railroads to establish telegraph stations along their lines, prescribing powers of the State corporation commission with reference thereto, and imposing penalties for violations.
Transportation, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 445

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 75 of chapter 400 of the acts of the general assembly of 1918, page 637, commonly known as the workmen's compensation act, as last amended by chapter 7, of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, page 7, and to appropriate funds for the carrying into effect the performance of the duties required of the industrial commission under this act.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 446

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5790 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the survival of the right of action against a deceased tort feasor.
Amendments, Judicial, Death and burial, Civil Rights, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 447

An ACT providing for the service on any party to a pending
Judicial, Lawyers

Chapter 448

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty, entitled an act to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes, similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security and at a low rate of interest.
Business, Budget, Taxation, Employment and labor, Incorporation

Chapter 449

An ACT to provide for transferring to the State corporation commission, the powers and duties now conferred and imposed by law upon the commissioner of insurance, concerning guaranty, indemnity, fidelity and security companies; for issuing permits to such companies to do business in Virginia; for establishing and regulating rates to be charged by such companies on the various classes and kinds of bonds, obligations and undertakings to be given or guaranteed by them; for the revocation of permits; and for penalties to be imposed for violations of any of such provisions.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 450

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5540 of the Code of Virginia, relating to emblements.
Agriculture, Property, Business

Chapter 451

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of troll (or trawl) nets in the waters of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and providing a penalty for same
Fishing, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 452

An ACT to declare certain specified grounds in Mobjack bay in Gloucester county a part of the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals, subject to any existing rights of any lessees of said ground.
Agriculture, Fishing, Business, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 454

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, and 572 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the State board of accountancy, and to add a new section relating thereto, designated as section 572a.
Amendments, Business, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 455

An ACT to amend sections 3, 4 and 14 of an act entitled an act to create a State commission on conservation and development; to prescribe its powers and duties; to vest it with powers and duties now vested by law in the water power and development commission, the State geological commission, the State geological survey, the office of the State geologist, and the office of the State forester; and to vest it with power to condemn and acquire land and other property for public park purposes, approved March 17, 1926, and providing for the conservation of property acquired under the provisions of section 14, with the aid of voluntary gifts or contributions placed at the disposal of the commission.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Recreation

Chapter 456

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780, as heretofore amended, section 3792, as heretofore amended, section 3793, section 3797 and section 3850, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia in relation to corpora- tions.
Amendments, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 457

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3418 and 3424 of the Code of Virginia, section 3418 of which as heretofore amended.
Lawyers, Judicial, Employment and labor

Chapter 458

An ACT to reimburse John FE. Ross for a certain sum improperly paid into the treasury of the State of Virginia.
Budget, Property, Business

Chapter 459

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5890 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the jurisdiction of circuit courts.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 460

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1110 and 1111 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to fertilizers and fertilizer material.
Agriculture

Chapter 461

An ACT to give the consent of the State of Virginia and to authorize and permit any legally constituted bridge corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across New river, the acquisition of same by the State highway commission, and the control and regulation by the State corporation commission
Transportation, Amendments, Business

Chapter 462

An ACT to provide a legislative committee to consider and investigate all matters relating to the apportionment of that portion of the motor vehicle fuel tax appropriated for the maintenance of the roads and bridges in the several county highway systems, and for the construction and reconstruction of roads and bridges in such systems, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said committee.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 463

An ACT to promote the safety of aircraft passengers; to provide for the licensing and inspection of aircraft and the licensing of aircraft pilots; to authorize the State corporation commission to promulgate rules and regulations governing the operation of aircraft: and to provide for the issuance of permits tor the estab!ishment of airports; and to provide for the supervision of said airports; and fixing penalties for the violations of this act.
Transportation

Chapter 464

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4734 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 465

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 85, of the acts of 1918, approved February 28, 1918, as amended by chapter 188, of the acts of 1924, approved March 14, 1924, as amended by chapter 490, of the acts of 1926, approved March 25, 1926, as amended by chapters 100 and 101 of the acts of 1927, entitled an act relating to Confederate pensions.
Amendments, Pensions, Civil Rights, Confederate

Chapter 466

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

Chapter 467

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-two hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clamming grounds in the waters of the State.
Fishing

Chapter 468

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Princess Anne to levy certain district school taxes, and to provide for the collection and expenditure of the funds derived from such levies.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 469

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3876 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Property, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 470

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 8 of chapter 107 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same and to prescribe penalties;”
Taxation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 471

An ACT to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the school laws of Virginia and certain laws relating to the State board of education, its powers and duties; to repeal certain Code sections and substitute in their place such revised, consolidated and amended Code sections and acts of the general assembly passed since the year 1916, as relate or pertain to the public schools; to number such revised, consolidated and amended statutes as sections 611 to section 718 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, all of which said sections relate or pertain to the State board of education, its powers and duties, the superintendent of public instruction, division superintendents, the school system in Virginia; the laws relative to the public school system in the counties in all its phases and relating to every matter that may affect, or in any manner pertain to the public schools in the counties, including the abolition of all school boards and the transfer of their powers and duties after January 1, 1932, to the several boards of supervisors; to provide for the levying, collecting and expenditure of school taxes or appropriations made in lieu thereof; to abolish school districts for all purposes save for purposes of representation for capital expenditures, and the payment of present existing debts; to make all the provisions of such sections applicable to city schools, so far as possible; to repeal sections 586, 594 and 595 of the Code of Virginia and sections 611 to 773 of the Code of Virginia, both inclusive, and any and all acts amendatory of such sections, all of which Code sections relate to the public schools, or matters pertaining thereto; to repeal chapter 412 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 381 of the acts of 1922, both of which relate to the compulsory attendance of children between certain ages upon the public schools of Virginia; to repeal chapter 233 of the acts of 1918 and chapter 327 of the acts of 1920, both of which relate to public health nursing and medical and health inspection of school children; to repeal chapter 32 of the acts of 1918, relating to the exemption of school and college pupils, and the vehicles in which they are traveling, from the payment of tolls on any roads located in this State; to repeal chapter 295 of the acts of 1918, permitting the teaching of high school subjects in primary schools in certain cases; to repeal chapter 371 of the acts of 1918, providing for deposit and disbursement of donations for public free school purposes; to repeal chapter 352 of the acts of 1918, authorizing district or city school boards to borrow money on short time loans; to repeal chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, relating to local school taxes, except so much thereof as repeals sections 740 and 2721 of the Code of 1919, and all amendments to such act which are found in chapter 29 of the acts of 1923 and chapter 175 of the acts of 1924; to repeal chapter 106 of the acts of 1924, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, by adding thereto section la, relating to local school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 143 of the acts of 1922, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the State; to repeal chapter 423 of the acts of 1922, creating county school boards, providing for their powers and duties, abolishing district boards, etc.; to repeal chapter 148 of the acts of 1922, providing for the establishment of recreation centers and for the teaching of home-crafts; to repeal chapter 46 of the acts of 1926, relating to the borrowing of money by school boards, authorizing short time loans, prohibiting certain other loans and prohibiting school boards from expending or contracting to expend, in any fiscal year, any sum of money in excess of the funds available for that year, unless approved by the boards of supervisors or the councils, etc.; to repeal chapter 493 of the acts of 1926, relating to school taxes; to repeal chapter 529 of the acts of 1926, prohibiting the State board of education from refusing to accredit any school, 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 said board; to repeal chapter 564 of the acts of 1926, relating to contracts for textbooks adopted for use in the public schools of the Commonwealth; to repeal chapter 62 of the acts of 1926, amending chapter 398 of the acts of 1920, in relation to local school levies, and relating especially to school taxes in Lee county; to repeal chapter 189 of the acts of 1926, authorizing the issuance of bonds by county school boards for the purpose of refunding school bonds issued on behalf of the school districts; to repeal sections 1529 and 1530 of the Code of Virginia; to repeal sections 798 and 849 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal all Code sections, acts and parts of acts, which are, or may be, in conflict with the provisions of the statutes embraced in the contents of this bill.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public officers, Public spaces, Civil Rights, Judicial

Chapter 472

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of the act creating the State highway commission approved March 6, 1906, as the same was amended by act approved March 21, 1924.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 473

An ACT to extend the time for collecting taxes and levies accounted for by the treasurer of Warren county, and not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 474

An ACT to authorize the members of the State corporation commission of Virginia to grant certificates of convenience and necessity for and to regulate the operation of motor vehicles in interstate transportation of persons or property, or both, for compensation in accordance with the provisions of any statute enacted by the congress of the United States.
Transportation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 475

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 1 of section 3292 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924, in relation to crabs.
Agriculture, Fishing, Property

Chapter 476

An ACT for the relief of Eula O. Spence.
Budget, Death and burial, Public officers

Chapter 477

An ACT to define and to provide for a survey and marking of the boundary of Virginia and Maryland along the Potomac river as laid down by
Boundaries, Budget

Chapter 478

An ACT for relief of J. T. Leftwich.
Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 479

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3985 of the Code of Virginia concerning the construction and maintenance of railroad crossing boards, and the construction and maintenance of lights and reflectors.
Transportation

Chapter 480

An ACT to require purely mutual building and loan associations to create and maintain a reserve fund for protection against losses and providing a maximum and minimum amount of said reserve fund.
Business, Property

Chapter 481

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 407 of the acts of 1924, entitled: an act to define ardent spirits and prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or ‘drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals ct cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavouring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to make it an offense to operate an automobile, engine, or other motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of liquor, and to prescribe penalties therefor; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 345 of acts of assembly, 1922, approved March 23, 1922, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act approved March 20, 1924.
Alcohol, Law Enforcement, Transportation, Judicial

Chapter 482

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Municipal charters, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Public spaces, Property, Education, Law Enforcement, Utilities, Pensions, Amendments, Employment and labor, Cemeteries

Chapter 483

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved March 17, 1926, entitled an act to continue the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election; to prescribe his powers and duties; to protect the title of motor vehicles; to provide for the registration of titles thereto and the issuance of certificates of title; to prescribe the effect of such registration; to provide for the licensing of motor vehicles and chauffeurs; to provide penalties, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Transportation

Chapter 484

An ACT to repeal chapter 84 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, of 1919, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to cause all depositions or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person or persons, to whom such account of deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years, by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof, approved March 15, 1918, approved September 9, 1919.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 485

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenues raised by the same and to prescribe penalties, approved March 26, 1923, as heretofore amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1926, and to enlarge the same so as to require manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers, and other persons, firms and corporations selling motor vehicle fuels for distribution to, and use by the public generally in Virginia.
Taxation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 486

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 98 of the Code of Virginia in relation to registration of voters.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 487

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Jails, Labor, Prisons, Employment and labor

Chapter 488

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3146 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commission of fisheries.
Fishing, Public officers, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 489

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 387 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, of 1926, entitled “an act requiring all oysters from the public rocks of the Commonwealth to be inspected when loading on vessels ; measurements; tax; penalties,” approved March 24, 1926, as amended, so as to include all oysters, taken from such public rocks.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Recreation, Wildlife

Chapter 490

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3042 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the powers of certain cities to acquire water works systems.
Utilities, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 491

An ACT to provide for the inspection, and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, lubricating oil, and other liquids or fluids used or intended to be used for power purposes; to provide for an appropriation therefor and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal chapter 477, of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for the inspection and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, and other liquids and fluids used, or intended to be used, for power purposes; and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 492

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6049 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the venue of actions at law and suits in equity.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 493

An ACT to prevent fraud and misrepresentation in the sale of liquid fuels, lubricating oils and similar products, and to prevent adulteration of any such product.
Business, Property

Chapter 494

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3271 of the Code of Virginia, relating to abandoned oyster planting grounds.
Agriculture, Fishing, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 495

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3166 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the granting of license to fish.
Fishing

Chapter 496

An ACT to provide for the making of a correct list of rented oyster planting grounds, and record thereof.
Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 497

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6019 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of justices, and enlarging the same so as to prohibit justices of the peace from taking claims for collection or making collections thereon, and prescribing punishment for violations.
Judicial, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 498

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to printing ballots.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 499

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of chapter 423 of the acts of 1922, entitled 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, approved March 24, 1922.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 500

An ACT to provide that any railroad company that has established and maintained throughout the year, for five consecutive years, a passing track or public side track from which it has afforded parties owning or leasing warehouses or other buildings adjacent thereto, facilities for the receipt and shipment of their freight, in carload quantities, shall not abandon such passing track or public side track and shall not refuse to afford such parties such facilities without written consent of the State.
Transportation

Chapter 501

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3879 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1924, which section is in chapter 151 of the said Code on the subject of the creation of non-stock corporations.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 502

An ACT to authorize and empower the chairman of the State highway commission of Virginia to convey certain property to W. L. Davis
Property, Transportation

Chapter 503

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 53 and 58 of the Virginia banking act.
Business

Chapter 504

An ACT to provide for appeals from the action of the commission of fisheries in leasing or refusing to lease oyster planting grounds in the Chesapeake bay.
Fishing, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 505

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6063 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to how process served on domestic corporations.
Business, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 506

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 329 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended, relating to the collection of fines imposed by court martial, the same having been omitted from the official Code of 1919, but continued in force by the provisions of section 2673 thereof.
Armed forces, Judicial, Jails, Debt, Law Enforcement

Chapter 507

An ACT to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia banking act. and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith. and to provide penalties for the violations thereof.
Business, Debt, Judicial, Property, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 508

An ACT to provide a county road board for the county of Princess Anne; to define its jurisdiction, duties and liabilities; to provide for compensation to its members and employees; and to repeal chapter 49 of the acts of assembly of 1923, and chapters 196, 238 and 346 of the acts of assembly of 1926, and to abolish all boards, offices and commissions created thereby, all of which relate to road boards and commissions in said county.
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 509

An ACT to provide for a commission to consider the question of the advisability of adopting compulsory compensation insurance in this State with reference to the operation of motor vehicles therein; to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to authorize the employment of ex-perts to assist the commission, and to appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 to defray the expenses of the commission, and to pay for the services of its employees.
Public expenditures

Chapter 510

An ACT to prescribe the compensation of commissioners of the revenue, and to repeal sections 2337 and 2349 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.
Budget, Taxation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 511

An ACT to authorize the manufacture of motor vehicle license plates, road signs and kindred articles for the use of the State or to be sold.
Prisons, Labor, Transportation

Chapter 512

An ACT relating to and defining the duties of certain officers with reference to aliens committed for violation of law or as public charges.
Jails, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Reformatories
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