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1932

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 426

Chapter 202

An ACT for the relief of W. B. Cassel.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 203

An ACT for the relief of E. E. Holloway.
Property, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 204

An ACT for the relief of W. B. Henson.
Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 366 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the suspension and removal of treasurers of counties and cities and of other officers charged with the collection and disposition of and accounting for public revenues.
Amendments, Public officers, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 206

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Rockingham to levy an additional license tax on dogs.
Taxation

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by enacting and incorporating therein, a new section to be designated as section 4952-a, providing that persons confined in jail until certain fines and/or costs are paid, may be released on bail, and fixing the liability of the sureties thereon.
Jails, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the taking and preservation of oral evidence in chancery causes
Judicial

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5109 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oral testimony in open court, in divorce cases.
Divorce, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 210

An ACT to change the location of a part of route 421 as added to the State highway system by the State highway commission.
Transportation

Chapter 211

An ACT to authorize additions to the location of State highway route 39 in and around the city of Williamsburg.
Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 212

An ACT to provide for licensing dealers in motor fuel; to require cer-
Transportation, Taxation, Business

Chapter 213

An ACT to prescribe the jurisdiction of the State of Virginia over lands in Virginia, acquired by, and/or under the control of, the United States, over matters and things arising on, and over persons and property of persons residing on, such lands.
Boundaries, Civil Rights, Public officers, Property, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 214

An ACT to provide for the disposal of certain personal property coming into possession of coroners, where persons entitled to such property are known, and cannot by reasonable diligence, be ascertained.
Coroner, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 215

An ACT to authorize and direct the chairman of the board of super-
Religious Institutions

Chapter 216

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Campbell county to construct and maintain sidewalks along the public roads and highways in such county.
Public spaces, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 408 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to correction by the State corporation commission of certain erroneous assessments.
Taxation, Business, Judicial

Chapter 218

An ACT for the relief of county treasurers who have, prior to March 1, 1932, paid interest on school warrants issued by the school boards of their respective counties.
Education, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to permit the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary to dispose of certain parcels of land and improvements thereon in the city of Williamsburg.
Property, Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 31 of chapter 307 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, session of 1928, approved March 27, 1928, and designated the Virginia banking act, said section 31 relating to the amount which may be invested in a bank building, approved March 8, 1930.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 221

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prescribing a time for catching shad in the Commonwealth, approved March 14, 1926, amended by an act approved February 28, 1928, and as further amended by an act approved February 20, 1930.
Fishing, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 223

An ACT to give the State corporation commission authority to regu-
Transportation, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 224

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2052 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the public free ferry across the Corotoman river, in the county of Lancaster.
Amendments, Transportation

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 36, 36-a, 74, 76, 98, 140, 171, 197, 253, 255, 267, 336 and 418 of the Tax Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 6, 7, 9, 14, 18, 22 and 27 of the Tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of income, intangible personal property, inheritance taxes, licenses, real estate assessments, examiners of records, and omitted taxes; and also to repeal section 328 of the Tax Code of Virginia requiring the commissioner of the revenue to send department of taxation copy of recapitulation sheets of land book.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Business, Budget

Chapter 226

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Gordonsville, Virginia; to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State.
Municipal charters, Budget, Property, Public spaces, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Public expenditures, Death and burial, Utilities, Civil Rights, Healthcare, Education, Recreation, Amusement, Employment and labor, Business, Vagrancy, Gambling, Transportation

Chapter 227

An ACT to prevent trespassing upon church property in the night time, and fixing the punishment for such trespassing.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend section 194 of the Tax Code of Virginia with reference to pistol dealers, as heretofore amended.
Taxation, Business, Amendments

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 362 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the use by county and city treasurers of public money in their possession, and by other persons handling public money.
Amendments, Taxation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 230

An ACT to repeal section 3892 of the Code of 1930, entitled “annual report of public service corporations in which the State is a stockholder.”
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 231

An ACT to provide for the supervision, regulation, and fixing of the rates and charges of persons, associations and corporations, issuing motor vehicle liability insurance policies; to require such persons, associations, and corporations to file reports, rates, rate manuals, schedules of rates, rating plans, information concerning rates, and changed and deviations therefrom, with the State corporation commission; to prescribe the rights, powers and duties of the State corporation commission concerning such matters; to provide for the establishment of an administrative bureau and membership therein; to provide for appeals from the State corporation commission; to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Public officers

Chapter 232

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 53 of an act entitled an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth, relating to banks and banking, known as the Virginia banking act, which was amended by an act approved March 24, 1930.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 233

An ACT to provide for the compensation of the members of the board of supervisors of Halifax county.
Public officers, Budget

Chapter 234

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Tacoma, in Wise county, Virginia, approved March 6, 1890.”
Municipal charters

Chapter 235

An ACT to provide that during periods of unemployment citizens of Virginia shall be employed for the labor in connection with the work on roads, highways, etc., whenever and wherever the State highway commissioner deems the same available and efficient.
Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled “an act to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain “securities” herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof,” approved March 23, 1918, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 237

An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to re-convey certain property in Henrico and Goochland counties acquired for State highway
Transportation

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 35 and 65, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and to repeal all other acts with reference thereto,” approved April 2, 1902, the sections here amended being in relation to the town council, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities, Property, Vagrancy, Alcohol, Public spaces

Chapter 239

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act 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," approved February 21, 1920, as heretofore amended, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto four new sections, numbered 13, 14, 15 and 16, respectively.
Business, Amendments

Chapter 240

An ACT to name the bridge across the Rivanna river, at Palmyra, on route 32 of the State highway system, the “Pembroke Pettit bridge.”
Public spaces, Transportation, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 241

An ACT authorizing the State commission on conservation and de-
Public spaces, Property, Amendments, Pensions, Civil Rights, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 242

An ACT to provide for the letting of certain contracts to which the State of Virginia, or any department, institution or agency thereof is a party, upon the basis of competitive bids.
Budget, Public expenditures, Business, Judicial

Chapter 243

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 74 of the game, inland fish and dog Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for livestock and poultry and treatment of rabies.
Agriculture, Healthcare, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 245

An ACT to provide for the relief of taxpayers from taxes and levies on lands assessed with fictitious mineral values; and from local levies on real estate assessed for taxation at a valuation grossly in excess of, and out of proportion to, the assessed value of real estate generally, in the same county, or city, for the same year, or years.
Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 246

An ACT for the relief of Henrico Lumber Company, Incorporated.
Business, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 247

An ACT requiring nonresident persons, associations, partnerships and corporations establishing and/or maintaining a place of business in this State for the advertising, offering and/or sale of securities to appoint, by written power of attorney, the secretary of the Commonwealth and his successors in office, as the agents of such nonresidents, upon whom may be served an process against, or notice to such nonresident; to provide for the admissibility in evidence of certified copies of the power of attorney provided for; to empower the State corporation commission to enjoin or restrain the advertising, offering and/or sale of securities by such nonresidents, and their agents and employees and to prescribe penalties.
Business, Law Enforcement, Taxation

Chapter 248

An ACT for the relief of Raymond C. Almond and Company.
Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 188 of the Tax Code of Virginia relating to licenses of merchants.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 250

An ACT to prohibit corporations, associations and societies and the agents, representatives, officers and directors thereof or therefor, from making certain misrepresentations and circulating false literature concerning the value, contents or provisions of certain insurance policies or certificates; prohibiting the making of any misrepresentations or issuance of any statements in regard to the value or contents of any policy of any company or association for the purpose of causing said policy to be forfeited, lapsed or surrendered; prohibiting, causing or permitting of same to be done by such persons generally; prescribing offenses, fines, penalties and punishment.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 251

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4228 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 18, 1926, in relation to the defenses of suicide and death by execution in actions on life insurance policies, and providing when such policies shall become incontestable, and as to certain ex-ceptions.
Death and burial, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 252

An ACT to prescribe the fees to be paid the coroner of the city of Portsmouth for certain services.
Coroner

Chapter 253

An ACT to permit certain appropriations and expenditures be made
Education, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 254

An ACT for the protection of banks depositing securities with the chairman of the State highway commission or the State highway commission to secure money deposited in banks by division engineers of the department of highways going into their custody under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 10 of chapter 79 of the Acts of 1928, and for the return of securities so deposited.
Bonds, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 255

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by incorporating therein a new section to be designated 6383-a, providing for attachments on bill in chancery.
Judicial, Business, Debt, Property

Chapter 256

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of King William county to levy an additional capitation tax of not exceeding one dollar on all residents of the county subject to the levy and payment of the State capitation tax.
Taxation

Chapter 257

An ACT to provide for the issuance of bonds by the county school boards of the counties of this State, for the purpose of funding or refunding notes and/or certificates of indebtedness issued by any county, or by or on behalf of any school district, for school purposes in such county, or school district, prior to January 1, 1932.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 258

An ACT to authorize the county school board of Southampton county to expend that part of the county school levy or appropriation for public schools derived from the town of Franklin school district through such county school levy or appropriation, in the same manner that such county school levy or appropriation derived from other school districts is expended.
Education

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1085 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to duties of courts when a person before it appears to be feeble-minded.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Custody of children

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6471 of the Code of Virginia relating to the lien of a judgment against purchaser for valuable consideration
Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6470 of the Code of Virginia relating to the time from which a judgment is to be a lien on all real estate of the defendant and extracts of said judgments.
Judicial

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of nonsupport; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties, and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Custody of children, Divorce, Employment and labor, Marriage, Public officers

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 403 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, said chapter being an act to create a State highway commission, et cetera, approved March 24, 1922, as heretofore amended, the section here amended being in relation to adding additional mileage to the State highway system.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Judicial, Business

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2724 of the Code of Virginia, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections designated 2724-a and 2724-b, both relating to the duties and powers of boards of supervisors in the allowance and settlement of claims against counties ; and to repeal section 2772 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2854 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to courthouses, clerk’s offices, jails and jailors.
Jails, Public officers, Municipal charters, Public spaces, Public expenditures

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1486 of the Code of Virginia.
Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 267

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1489 of the Code of Virginia.
Healthcare

Chapter 268

An ACT giving authority to the Miller manual labor school of Albemarle, to sell and convey its real estate when, in the opinion of its board of trustees, the real estate to be conveyed is not needed for the use and purposes of said corporation and the sale and conveyance thereof is in furtherance of such uses and purposes, and ratifying the conveyances which have heretofore been made.
Education, Property

Chapter 269

An ACT for the protection of fish, squirrels and other game in Buchanan county.
Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 640 of the Code of Virginia, which was enacted into law by chapter 471 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1928, approved March 26, 1928, said chapter being an act revising, amending, consolidating and codifying the laws of Virginia relating to public schools, the section amended being in relation to approval of loans from the literary fund.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2158 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 5, 1928, relating to security to be given by depositories of State money.
Bonds, Budget

Chapter 272

An ACT to provide for the suspension of operator’s and chauffeur’s licenses and registration certificate, and the right of non-residents to operate a motor vehicle, in certain cases; to prescribe procedure where damages to property and/or injuries to persons have been caused by the operation of motor vehicles, and to prescribe penalties.
Transportation, Judicial, Public officers, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 273

An ACT to invest the boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and abutting a city with a population of 25,000 or more inhabitants, as shown by the United States census, with the power to install and maintain proper lights on the streets and highways in the villages and built-up portions of such counties, and to pay for the same out of the county fund, and to repeal an act entitled an act to invest the boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and abutting a city with a population of thirty thousand or more inhabitants, as shown by the United States census, with the power to install and maintain proper lights on the streets and highways in the villages and built-up portions of such counties, and to pay for the same out of the county fund, approved February 16, 1918.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, which new section shall be known as section 4567-a, relating to the protection of bailors of horses, mules, automobiles or aeroplanes or any other animal or vehicle.
Business, Property, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 275

An ACT to require funds paid by the owner to a general contractor or by the owner or general contractor, to a subcontractor, under contracts fot the construction, removal, repair or improvement of buildings or structures permanently annexed to the freehold, to be used for the purpose of paying persons performing labor upon or furnishing material for such construction repair, removal or improvement, and prescribing penalties. [H B 399]
Labor

Chapter 276

An ACT to authorize and empower the State highway commission to re-locate a certain portion of route No. 41 of the State highway system and make connection with route No. 39 at such point as may be selected by the commission.
Transportation

Chapter 277

An ACT to authorize co-operation on the part of the proper authorities of the State of Virginia with the National capital port authority for the purpose of promoting navigation and commerce in the area served and to be served by the National capital port.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 278

An ACT to provide for ascertaining and marking the true boundary line between Virginia and the District of Columbia, authorizing the appointment of commissioners therefor, and to provide an appropriation therefor.
Boundaries

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act
Employment and labor

Chapter 280

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Alexandria, Virgin
Municipal charters, Public officers, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 281

An ACT to authorize the military board to lease a portion of the State military reservation at Virginia Beach, Virginia, for aviation purposes.
Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 69 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.
Employment and labor, Public officers, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 283

An ACT to prevent fraud and deception in the offering for sale and sale of storage batteries, and prescribing penalties for violations.
Business, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 284

An ACT to define runners and cappers and prohibiting the solicitation of business by runners and cappers for attorneys at law; providing that contracts secured by them shall be void, and providing penalties for any violation of the provisions of this act.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 285

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 413 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to correction by commissioner of revenue of erroneous assessments of certain local levies and licenses and State and local capitation taxes.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 286

An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of the city of Roanoke to sell and dispose of certain real estate to the city of Roanoke for public street purposes.
Education, Property, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 287

An ACT to create a lien in favor of hospitals for its reasonable charges for caring for persons injured in accidents, the giving of notice of such lien, the effect thereof and to provide for the adjudication of the claims made by hospitals against persons injured in accidents.
Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by enacting, and incorporating therein, a new section to be designated as section 1080-a, providing for the appointment of guardians, or committees, for persons mentally and physically incapacitated, but not feeble minded.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Healthcare

Chapter 289

An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, with the consent of the governor, to lease under certain conditions not to exceed two acres of real estate belonging to the said institution.
Agriculture, Business, Public spaces, Education

Chapter 290

An ACT to authorize the acquisition by the town of Falls Church of that portion of the water system of Arlington county which lies within the limits of said town.
Utilities, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 291

An ACT to ratify and approve the restoration of the original buildings and grounds of the Colonial College of William and Mary, authorizing their acceptance by the board of visitors of said college, and to provide for further changes by said college in the restoration of buildings, and decorations, furniture and furnishings, and in the landscaping of the grounds surrounding said Colonial College of William and Mary.
Education, Public spaces, Property, Public officers, Charity

Chapter 292

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act concerning trustees, their qualification, sales made by trustees under order or decree of court, their compensation in such cases,” approved March 19, 1920, and to enlarge said act so as to validate sales, and deeds made in pursuance thereof, by trustees who were stockholders, officers or directors of corporations, under deeds of trust given to secure debts due to such corporations.
Amendments, Business, Judicial

Chapter 293

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 4439-a, prescribing penalties for breaking open or opening, with intent to commit larceny therefrom, pumps, tanks and containers used for storing or dispensing kerosene, gasoline or motor oils.
Amendments, Property, Law Enforcement

Chapter 294

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 8 of an act entitled "an act to authorize the issuance of bonds by county school boards of counties in the State of Virginia for the purpose of funding or refunding any of the current indebtedness of such counties incurred for school purposes and for the purpose of constructing school buildings or additions thereof," approved March 24, 1930, so as to include existing obligations incurred for school purposes.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact: section 780 of the Code of Virginia
Education, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 296

An ACT to authorize the governor to remove members of the boards of visitors of State colleges, universities, institutions, and agencies, and members of examining or licensing boards of the State, for certain causes, and to fill such vacancies.
Education, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 297

An ACT authorizing cities containing not less than one hundred and twenty-five thousand nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand population, according to the last preceding United States census, to provide for the annual assessment and equalization of assessments of real estate.
Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 298

An ACT to authorize the school boards of the cities of Roanoke, Danville and Portsmouth to purchase and own textbooks and to let them out to pupils on a rental basis.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 299

An ACT for the relief of the Seaboard Citizens National Company, Incorporated.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5090 of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriage of persons under the age of consent.
Marriage, Custody of children, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 301

An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors of counties, in their discretion, to temporarily transfer a portion of the road funds derived from the State tax on gasoline and other motor vehicle fuels and from local levies, to the school funds for use during the present school year, where the same may be necessary to prevent the schools from closing before the expiration of an
Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 302

An ACT to prescribe the compensation of clerks of courts, attorneys for the Commonwealth, commissioners of the revenue, city sergeants, and city treasurers in cities of this Commonwealth having a population of over sixty-five thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the United States census of 1930; to provide for the payment of such compensation and the expenses of office of such officers; to impose certain duties on the State fee commission; to provide for the appointment and compensation of jailors in such cities; to prescribe the powers and duties of such jailor, and to confer certain powers on the city manager in such cities in relation to the jail and jailor.
Budget, Employment and labor, Public officers, Jails, Law Enforcement

Chapter 303

An ACT for the relief of the estate of Geo. B. Keezell, deceased, late treasurer of the county of Rockingham.
Budget, Property
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