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1934

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to abolish the corporation court of the city of Hopewell, provide for the transfer of all cases, actions and proceedings now pending in the said court and all records of the said court to the circuit court of the city of Hopewell, to vest in the circuit court all jurisdictions now vested
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend chapter 73 of the Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto, to be designated as section 1777-a, authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds by drainage districts under certain circumstances; providing for the sale or other disposition of such bonds and the application of the proceeds thereof; for the assessment of levies for the payment of such bonds, and the adjustment of such levies and of levies made for the payment of any bonds of any such district which may not be so refunded; authorizing any such drainage district to enter into contracts and agreements with the United States government or any subdivision or agency thereof, for the purpose of securing aid in the matter of refunding outstanding bonds of such district; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the appointment of trustees for the town of York, approved March 16, 1918, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5935 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Norfolk.
Judicial

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize any judge or judges of a court or courts of record of the city of Norfolk to act as judge or court in any other court of record of said city, at the request of the judge of any one of said courts
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5940 of the Code of Virginia, relating to commissioners in chancery of the court of law and chancery of the city of Norfolk.
Judicial

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3424 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to attorneys at law.
Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend chapter 169 of the Code of Virginia by adding two new sections thereto, to be designated as sections 4251-a and 4251-b, providing for the conversion of stock life insurance corporations into mutual life insurance corporations; prescribing the procedure for the accomplishment of such conversion; and providing how stock life insurance corporations may acquire their own stock.
Amendments, Business

Chapter 10

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5936 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Norfolk.
Judicial, Taxation, Voting, Property

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 74 of act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, relating to the appointment for unexpired terms of certain officers.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 151 thereof a new section numbered 3879-a, authorizing members of non-stock corporations created under the provisions of chapter 151 of the Code of Virginia, to hold meetings for the transaction of business of such corporations without the State of Virginia, and to declare all actions heretofore and hereafter taken at such meetings as valid and binding as if such meetings had been held in Virginia.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Incorporation

Chapter 13

An ACT to authorize the Governor to accept gifts of statues or busts of the President and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, and setting apart niches in the old hall of the House of Delegates to receive the same.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5465 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to actions, suits and other proceedings in-volving the title to land embraced in the exterior boundaries of any patent, deed or other writing which reserves one or more parcels of land from the operation thereof, and to the proceeds of the sale or condemnation of such land.
Property

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 56 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, in relation to cemeteries.
Cemeteries

Chapter 16

An ACT to provide for a police commission for any county having a population of over 25,000, which adjoins two cities in this State having an aggregate population of not less than 165,000 and not more than 185,000 according to the United States census of 1930; to provide for the appointment, supervision and control of a police force for such county; to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and police force and provide for their compensation; and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for a special police force in certain counties, prescribing the manner of their appointment and removal, providing for their compensation and defining their powers and duties, approved March 24, 1922, and all acts amendatory thereof.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 17

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide a police commission for Norfolk county, to appoint and have supervision and control of the police force in said county; to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such commission and of such police force, and of the members of each; and to repeal chapter 404 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 24, 1922, and all amendments thereof, approved March 29, 1932.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 18

An ACT to release the United States of America, and any contractor therefor or agent thereof, from any and all claims for damages to the oyster and other public interests of the Commonwealth of Virginia by reason of the dredging and maintenance, by the United States or any such contractor or agent of, including the deposit of material dredged in connection with, navigable channels.
Industry, Transportation

Chapter 19

An ACT providing that bona fide students of lawful school age, regular attendance and of good standing, of the high schools of Virginia shall be entitled to participate in the literary and athletic contests and events thereof.
Education

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 70 of the Code of Virginia, concerning representation in Congress and apportionment therefor.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 617 of the Code of Virginia
Education

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3011 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the powers and authority of mayors of towns and members of town councils.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5103 and 5115 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces from bond of matrimony and from bed and board.
Divorce

Chapter 24

An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors and other governing bodies of counties, councils and other governing bodies of cities, and school boards of counties and cities, to invest sinking funds in direct obligations of, and in bonds and securities guaranteed by the United States.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 25

An ACT to prohibit persons from releasing or causing or procuring tc be released in any private home or place of public gathering, tear gas.
Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3541 of the Code of Virginia, relating to damages for trespass by animals; forfeiture, etc.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6028 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals of cases from justices courts.
Judicial

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 5371-a in order to provide for the appointment and qualification of personal representatives and guardians in certain cases without security; to exempt certain estates from taxes and court costs, and to repeal ia 293 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, approved March 16
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 242 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to general reassessments of real estate.
Taxation

Chapter 30

An ACT to empower the boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of the counties to release the liability for interest, penalties and accrued cost on unpaid county and district taxes for the year 1933 if such taxes are paid prior to March 15, 1934, and to release the directors of finance, county treasurers and/or clerks of courts of counties in which the board of supervisors or other governing bodies have taken such action from liability for such penalties, interest and cost in all cases where taxes are paid prior to March 15, 1934.
Taxation

Chapter 31

An ACT to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Appomattox county, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Appomattox, and to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Halifax county, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Halifax.
Public officers, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3183 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to catching menhaden fish.
Fishing

Chapter 33

An ACT to provide for the refunding of certain certificates of indebtedness of the par value of $2,000,000.00, issued under an act entitled an act to repeal an act entitled an act to anticipate by counties, or otherwise, the construction of the State highway system, approved March 15, 1920, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to anticipate by counties or otherwise the construction of the State highway system, approved March 15, 1920, approved March 21, 1924; to provide for the issue and sale of certificates of indebtedness of the Commonwealth of Virginia to repay the sums advanced to the State under the provisions of the aforesaid acts and to provide a sinking fund for the payment of the interest on the said certificates of indebtedness and the principal thereof at maturity, approved March 19, 1926, by authorizing and directing the issuance and sale of $2,000,000.00 par value certificates of indebtedness and/or notes of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and to provide for the payment of interest on such certificates of indebtedness and/or notes, and the principal thereof at maturity.
Budget, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 34

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2639 of the Code of Virginia, relating to issuance of new State bonds and certificates for bonds and certificates lost or destroyed.
Bonds

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to provide for the refunding of certain certificates of indebtedness of the par value of $2,000,000.00 issued under an act entitled an act to repeal an act entitled an act to anticipate by counties, or otherwise, the construction of the State highway system
Budget, Debt, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to waive or modify certain statutory limitations and restrictions on making loans from the literary fund to county and city school boards, and to confer on the State Board of Education discretionary powers in lending money from the literary fund to school boards, for the purpose of enabling school boards to meet, to comply with and take advantage of the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, approved September 13, 1933.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 37

An ACT to repeal sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in Giles county, other than such as are included in the State highway system, and to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the construction, reconstruction and permanent improvement of the roads and bridges, embraced in the county highway system, approved February 10, 1920, and any and all amendments of said sections or any of them, and to provide when the repeal of the various sections shall become effective.
Repeal of legislation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 38

An ACT to repeal section 374 (a) of the Code of Virginia, 1930, relative to the duties of the Attorney General.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 378 of the Code of Virginia, 1930, concerning the office of the Attorney General.
Amendments, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3433 of the Code of Virginia of 1930, concerning the salary and mileage of the Attorney General, his assistants, secretaries and stenographers and contingent expenses of his office.
Amendments, Lawyers, Salaries, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 41

An ACT to provide for the dismissal of suits and actions which have been at rules for more than three years, and for noting such dismissal on the margin of the page of the deed book where any lis pendens filed in such suit or action has been recorded.
Judicial

Chapter 42

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to add to the State highway system, a road from a point at or near Jarman’s Gap, following generally at or near the top of the mountain in a southwesterly direction to the North Carolina, or Tennessee line, to transfer thereof to or for the United States of America, and to sign an agreement as to the maintenance of the same.
Transportation

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 199 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to license taxes on manufacturers of bottled carbonated beverages.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 44

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Grayson county to award premiums for groundhog scalps.
Wildlife, Amendments, Agriculture

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as last amended by an act approved February 27, 1930.
Employment and labor, Healthcare

Chapter 46

An ACT to amend 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
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 422 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, concerning elk in the counties of Giles, Bland, Pulaski, Montgomery, and Craig, as amended by chapter 202 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 24, 1930, in relation to the fee for a license to hunt elk and money derived therefrom.
Hunting, Wildlife, Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5447 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unlawful entry and detainer, authorizing recovery of rents and damages.
Property, Judicial, Business

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prescribe the time for the holding of courts of the sixth judicial circuit, approved March 24, 1926.
Judicial

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to meetings of the commission.
Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to persons entitled to county and State license.
Hunting, Law Enforcement, Noncitizens, Armed forces

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 65 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to duplicate license tags.
Wildlife

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1224, 1225 and 1227 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended concerning tuberculosis and Bang’s disease among cattle.
Agriculture, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 24 of the Game, Inland Fisk and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to complimentary licenses.
Hunting, Fishing, Public officers

Chapter 55

An ACT to relieve treasurers of the several counties of liability for the penalties required by law on local taxes collected after December 5th of each year, where the boards of supervisors of such counties have extended the time limit for the payment of taxes without penalty, and to provide for reimbursing treasurers for certain penalties paid.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 56

An ACT: to authorize and empower the council of the town of South Hill to abandon a portion of Main street, of such town, and to sell and convey the right, title and interest of such town in and to that portion of the street so abandoned.
Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 57

An ACT to provide for commencing civil actions to be tried by civil and police justices, civil justices and trial justices by notice of motion, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the trial of civil cases by a civil and police justice on motion, approved March 15, 1924.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6307 of the Code of Virginia, relating to vacation powers of chancery judges, and effect of vacation decrees and orders.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections sixteen hundred and twenty-four, sixteen hundred and twenty-six, sixteen hundred and twenty-seven, sixteen hundred and thirty-five and sixteen hundred and thirty-seven of the Code of Virginia 1919, some of which have been heretofore amended, all relating to optometry.
Amendments, Healthcare, Business, Public officers

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the catching of fish in certain streams in the county of Dickenson
Fishing

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3168 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to license to catch fish.
Fishing, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT to release the United States of America, and any contractor therefor or agent thereof, from any and all claims for damages to the oyster and other public interests of the Commonwealth of Virginia by reason of the dredging and maintenance by the United States or any such contractor or agent of, including the deposit of material dredged in connection with, a navigable channel, or any part thereof, in the James river from the vicinity of Hampton Roads to the city of Richmond.
Transportation

Chapter 63

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm bonds issued on any election heretofore held, authorizing the issuance of such bonds by any school district of the State for the purpose of building, rebuilding, or otherwise permanently improving the school buildings of said school district or for original equipment therefor.
Bonds, Education

Chapter 64

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

Chapter 65

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for licensing dealers in motor fuel; to require certain reports by such dealers and certain other persons; to levy a tax upon motor fuel: to provide for its collection; to appropriate the revenue raised by the same; to prescribe penalties for violations; and to repeal an act of the General Assembly entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuel; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same, and to prescribe penalties, approved March 26, 1923, and to repeal all acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1932, in relation to refunds of taxes paid on motor fuel
Taxation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Agriculture

Chapter 66

An ACT to authorize the destruction of papers and records of no permanent usefulness in the offices of the Department of Highways after three years.
Public officers, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 67

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, in relation to registration fees.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4997-a, providing for the taking of fingerprints, photographs and descriptions of convicts received in the penitentiary.
Prisons, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4938 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the cost of printing records, and to certain sections applicable to criminal and civil cases.
Judicial, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boone Mill, in the county of Franklin, Virginia, approved April 11, 1927, by adding a new section thereto to be designated as section 8-a, providing how persons convicted of violating town ordinances may be punished ; to amend and re-enact section 9 of the said act, said section being in relation to the rate of tax the town may levy; and to provide for a referendum on the question of the adoption of said amendment.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Jails

Chapter 71

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the city of Hampton to convey all the right, title and interest of the said city in and to a certain portion of Shield street to Virginia Public Service Company in exchange for certain other real estate in said city.
Public expenditures, Utilities, Business, Transportation

Chapter 72

An ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the town of Vienna, in the county of Fairfax, to compromise with Katrina Hine Echols its claim to the real estate and the proceeds of the sale of portions thereof, formerly owned by the late Charles DeLano Hine, and to authorize either of the parties to bring suit against the other, in the circuit court of Fairfax, for the partition of said real estate in the event the said parties cannot voluntarily agree as to the division thereof.
Inheritance and succession, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 73

An ACT to authorize the town of South Hill, in Mecklenburg county, to abandon a portion of Lunenburg avenue and convey the same to G. L. Smith and the heirs of Nannie R. Smith, deceased, in exchange for a certain strip of land to be added to the said Lunenburg avenue.
Property, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amending charters and changing location of the principal offices, of corporations.
Business, Incorporation, Amendments

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5904-e of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to criminal and civil proceedings and rules of practice in county courts.
Judicial

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to lists of persons who have paid poll taxes, etc.
Amendments, Voting, Civil Rights

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 375 of the Code of Virginia of 1930, concerning the duties of the Attorney General.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 78

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to fix the salary of the Assistant Attorney General of Virginia
Salaries, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fishing.
Fishing

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 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, so as to provide how the charters of such and other similar companies may be amended.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6452 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to liens on crops for advances to farmers.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 82

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to require the approval of the qualified voters of Dickenson county on certain local questions; to prohibit the board of supervisors of the said county from appropriating the county levy for certain purposes; to limit the rates of levy in the said county; and to invest the court or judge with certain authority.
Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 181 and section 238 as heretofore amended of the Code of Virginia, relating to election poll books and ballots.
Voting, Amendments

Chapter 84

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 5409-a, fixing the time within which accounts of fiduciaries holding principal sums of five hundred dollars or less, shall be exhibited before a commissioner of accounts.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Public officers

Chapter 85

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4852 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to grand juries.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 86

An ACT to regulate and control the production, preparation, manufacture, possession, transportation, sale, disposition and use of coca leaves, cocaine, opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture and preparation thereof or of either, and substances not chemically distinguishable from such drugs or either of them; to provide for the issuance, suspension and revocation of licenses to produce, prepare, manufacture, sell, dispense and otherwise handle such drugs; to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith: and to provide that this act may be designated and cited as the "Uniform Narcotic Drug Act."
Healthcare, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 87

An ACT to prohibit the pollution of certain waters in the counties of Northumberland and Middlesex and to provide penalties for violations of provisions of this act.

Chapter 88

An ACT authorizing the councils or other governing bodies of cities and incorporated towns to provide for municipal planning; providing for the creation, organization and powers of municipal planning commissions.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 89

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Colonial Heights, Chesterfield county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6253 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to certificates in lieu of bills of exceptions
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 294 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the time and place of meeting of the General Assembly, making special provision for meetings in the Restored Capitol at Williamsburg, Va.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 92

An ACT to provide for the recordation of discharge certificates of veterans of wars in which the United States has engaged.
Armed forces, Public officers

Chapter 93

An ACT to make it a misdemeanor to operate fraudulently any coin-box telephone; or to obtain fraudulently from any such coin-box telephone the use or enjoyment of telephone or telegraph service; or to manufacture, sell or give away, with intent to defraud or knowing the same is intended for an unlawful use, any slug, device or substance whatsoever for the operation of any coin-box telephone.
Business, Judicial

Chapter 94

An ACT to legalize, regulate and control the manufacture, bottling, sale, distribution, transportation, handling, advertising, possession, dispensing, drinking and use of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout, and all liquids, beverages and articles containing alcohol obtained by distillation, fermentation or otherwise; to create a Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and a Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and to define and provide for the functions, duties and powers thereof; to provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, and expenses of such Board and its members, officers, agents and employees; to provide for licensing and taxing manufacturers, bottlers, wholesalers and retailers of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout, and all liquids, beverages and articles containing alcohol, by the State and the counties, cities, and towns thereof; to impose excise taxes on such liquids, beverages and articles; to appropriate money for the administration of the act and to provide for the disposition of revenues collected under the act; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of articles declared contraband hereunder; to authorize the dismissal and termination of pending warrants, indictments, charges and prosecutions involving violations of laws, ordinances and by-laws pertaining to liquids, beverages and articles containing alcohol, to authorize the restoration of certain property seized in connection therewith, and to authorize the suspension of sentences imposed for violations of such laws, ordinances and by-laws; to make provision whereby the penalties for the violation of acts repealed by this act may be the same as those provided in this act; to impose penalties for violations of the act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, and to provide that this act shall constitute and be designated and cited as “The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.”
Alcohol, Amendments, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business, Public officers

Chapter 95

An ACT to empower the councils of cities and towns to release the liability and liens for interest, penalties and accrued costs, or any part thereof, on unpaid taxes due such cities and towns for any year or years to and including 1933, provided such taxes are paid within one hundred and twenty days after this act is in force.
Taxation

Chapter 96

An ACT to define the term "machine gun"; to declare the use and possession of a machine gun, for certain purposes, a crime and to prescribe the punishment therefor; to require manufacturers, dealers and other persons, with certain exemptions, in possession thereof, to register all machine guns with the Secretary of the Commonwealth: to keep records of and report transfers and sales to the said Secretary; to allow inspection of records and of machine guns by peace officers; to provide for seizures and search warrants; to prescribe rules of evidence and presumptions; to provide penalties, and to repeal all inconsistent acts.
Armed forces, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 97

An ACT to make effective the Constitutional provision to the effect that the General Assembly shall establish and maintain an efficient system of public free schools throughout the State, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 98

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto, to be designated as section 3238-a, governing the taking or catching of oysters in the Potomac river by means of hand scrapes; prescribing penalties for violations of the act; repealing all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith; and providing that the same shall not take effect until a similar act shall be made effective in the State of Maryland.
Fishing

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to permits to deal in furs.
Hunting, Wildlife, Fishing

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2158 and 2162 of the Cod of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to public moneys and State depositories.
Budget, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 101

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to lease and turn over to the State of Virginia, the county poor farm of said county to be used by the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries for the purpose of propagation and preservation of game birds, game animals and fish, and ratifying and confirming all former action taken by the said board relating thereto.
Agriculture, Fishing, Wildlife
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