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1934

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 406

Chapter 102

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918, approved March 27, 1922.
Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 103

An ACT to provide that the sergeant of the town of Chilhowie shall be appointed by the town council instead of being elected by popula vote.
Public officers

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend sections 4, 5, 11, 14, 17, 20, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk, approved March 20, 1924, and to further amend said act by adding thereto two new sections numbered ll-a and 24-a.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Taxation, Public expenditures, Prisons, Bonds, Civil Rights

Chapter 105

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act authorizing the State Commission on Conservation and Development to acquire by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings or by gift, devise, purchase or any other lawful means for the transfer of title, the lands described therein, for public parks or for public park purposes, approved March 23, 1932, so as to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development under certain conditions to transfer said lands or a part thereof to the United States of America.
Public spaces, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 106

An ACT to authorize the use of funds for the State highway system from the tax on motor fuel for maintenance of the State highway system as well as for construction.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 107

An ACT granting to the town of Chincoteague all right, title and interest of the Commonwealth in a certain tract of marsh land lying between the Chincoteague island and the mainland.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4211 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to deposits of bonds and securities with the Treasurer by insurance, guaranty, indemnity, fidelity, title insurance, security, etc., companies.
Bonds, Business, Public officers

Chapter 109

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex, approved February 12, 1894, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6299 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the substitution of trustees in place of trustees who have died, resigned, removed or declined the trust, so as to validate decrees or orders of substitution heretofore made by courts of competent jurisdiction.
Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 9, and 18-a, of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved on the 22nd day of March, 1924, entitled an act to provide for a new charter for the city of Roanoke, to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2727 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the raising of money for county purposes.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 113

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March 24, 1922, as amended by an act approved March 21, 1928, by amending and re-enacting sections 23 and 24.
Amendments, Budget, Bonds, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 114

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 294 of the Acts of Assembly of 1849, entitled an act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers, passed March 15, 1849, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1915, fixing a maximum town levy and maximum capitation tax for said town.
Amendments, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 116

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6298 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appointment of trustees in the place of one who is dead, has resigned, removed or declined the trust, authorizing the beneficiary to make the appointment of substitute trustees in certain cases.
Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5363 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to proceedings concerning presumption of death of persons absent for seven years or more and to distribution of estates of such persons.
Amendments, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 118

An ACT to authorize the War Memorial Commission to apply $1,600.00 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the General Assembly of 1932 for the erection of a carrilon, to the payment of the balance due on the purchase price of the bells for said carrilon.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 119

An ACT to provide for the construction and effect of provisions requiring notice of sale under deeds of trust to be given for a specified number of days by advertisement in one or more newspapers.
Property, Debt, Business

Chapter 120

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, which new section shall be known as section 3813-a, relating to the vesting of legal titles, in receivership proceedings, to real and personal property, under deeds or conveyances of the corporation, the validity of which is subject to question.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 121

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 297 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the collection of city and town taxes.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 122

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2475 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2491 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, both sections relating to redeeming real estate sold for delinquent taxes.
Taxation, Property, Amendments

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 68-a, relating to dogs running at large.
Wildlife

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6469 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to lis pendens and attachment.
Amendments, Debt, Property, Judicial

Chapter 125

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Orange county to transfer certain road bond sinking funds of the Madison district of said county to the school board sinking fund of said district, for use in paying school bonds of said district.
Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 126

An ACT for the relief of C. T. Smith, late treasurer of Russell county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, approved March 24, 1932, so as to include the city of Alexandria
Education

Chapter 128

An ACT to authorize the county school board of Tazewell county to cancel certain indebtedness of the county school fund to the district school funds of said county, and to use for general school purposes any surplus funds arising from district levies made for capital expenditures and the payment of existing indebtedness.
Education, Public expenditures, Debt

Chapter 129

An ACT to require the dissolution and forfeiture of charters to be certified by the State Corporation Commission and clerks, to the clerks of the courts in whose offices such charters are recorded, and to require clerks of courts to note the dissolution and forfeiture of charters on the margin of the
Business, Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 130

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6338 of the Code of Virginia relating to how persons desiring to present petitions for appeals, writs of error and supersedeas may procure suspension of execution.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 131

An ACT to permit the trial together of cases for personal injury of infants, with claims for the expenses of curing or attempting to cure infants from such injury.
Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Judicial, Custody of children, Healthcare

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6351 of the Code of Virginia relating to bonds of appellants and petitioners and the penalties and conditions thereof.
Bonds, Judicial, Property

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1056 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 134

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3399 of the Code of Virginia, relating to recording deeds and other instruments.
Property, Amendments

Chapter 135

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4786 of the Code of Virginia, relating to terms of imprisonment.
Judicial, Prisons, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 136

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 133 thereof a new section numbered 3424-a, providing in what courts disbarment and suspension proceedings against attorneys at law may be had and how services may be had.
Amendments, Business, Taxation, Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (d) of section twenty-nine of chapter sixty-four of the Acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two; to amend and re-enact subsection (z) of section two of said chapter sixty-four of the Acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two as here- tofore amended by an act approved February eleventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-two; and to amend and re-enact chapter two hundred and one of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirty, entitled an act to amend and re-enact subsection (b) of section thirty-four of chapter sixty-four of the Acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk, and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the said city of Suffolk, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and to add eight new and additional subsections to said section thirty-four, to be known and designated as subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j), with reference to the sale of real estate delinquent for the non-payment of city taxes, purchase by the city, redemption of land so sold, saving to persons under disability, deed to purchasers, title of purchasers, title of city, and sale for the non-payment of local assessments, etc., approved March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirty, as amended by chapter four hundred and two of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-two, approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two.
Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Jails

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2460 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale of delinquent real estate.
Property, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 415 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, the said chapter being an act establishing the secondary system of State highways and relieving the localities from further duty or liability concerning the maintenance of such highways, et cetera
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions from jury service.
Judicial

Chapter 142

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act entitled an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to building and loan associations, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia building and loan association act, and to repeal all code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for violations thereof
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 143

An ACT to amend section 6501 of the Code of Virginia which said section is in chapter 272 of the said Code on the subject of executions, and the means of enforcing the recoveries of money otherwise than by such writ.
Amendments, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 144

An ACT to make it unlawful for any person to drive or operate any automobile or other motor vehicle, engine or train while under the influence of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout, or any other liquid, beverage or article containing alcohol, or under the influence of any narcotic drug, or any other self-administered intoxicant or drug of whatsoever nature; to prescribe penalties for violations thereof, and to require convictions thereunder to be reported to the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Alcohol, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 145

An ACT to provide for the supervision, regulation, restriction and control of the issuance of stocks, stock certificates, bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness, evidences of interest and ownership, and other securities by persons, firms, associations and corporations, including trustees, receivers, and lessees thereof, engaged in business in Virginia as public utilities, to prescribe the functions, powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission in connection therewith, to impose certain fees, and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Business, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 146

An ACT to prohibit conspiracies to murder, rape, rob and kidnap persons and to burglarize, break and enter and burn buildings, and to provide penalties for violations of this act.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 147

An ACT to validate certain conveyances of county real estate, made
Property

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 124 thereof a new section numbered 3120-a prohibiting special justices, who are judges or justices of any civil court, civil and police court or police court in certain cities from practicing law.
Judicial, Lawyers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 672 of the Code of Virginia as enacted into law by chapter 471 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1928, approved March 26, 1928, said chapter being an act to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the school laws of Virginia, etc., the section here amended being in relation to the maintenance of public schools and charging tuition.
Education

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1259 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to bonds of commission merchants.
Agriculture, Bonds, Business

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to school boards.
Amendments, Education, Public officers

Chapter 152

An ACT to authorize the county school board of any county to issue bonds for the purpose of funding, or refunding, and retiring outstanding district school bonds.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, entitled an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act
Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, entitled an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act
Amendments, Transportation, Public officers, Business

Chapter 155

An ACT to define the terms “milk,” “cream” and “pasteurized milk”; to fix and define the grades thereof; to prohibit the sale or dispensing of milk or cream not of certain standards; to regulate the production and handling of milk and cream; to provide for issuing permits and for the revocation of such permits; to provide penalties for violations; and to repeal section 1211-A to 1211-I, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 103 of chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 64 of chapter 342, Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia.
Transportation, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Fire fighters, Healthcare

Chapter 158

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to levy additional taxes for the benefit of the public schools in said county, the several magisterial districts and incorporated towns therein, and authorizing the school board to borrow money for said purposes, approved March 21, 1928, and all acts amendatory thereof.
Education, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 159

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 683 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to compulsory education.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 154, 155 and 156 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to elections and duties of candidates and printing of ballots.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 161

An ACT to prohibit misrepresentation of the grade, quality and con- dition of agricultural and other products and commodities; and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions of this act.
Agriculture

Chapter 162

An ACT to make an additional appropriation for the expenses of the General Assembly.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 163

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4956 of the Code of Virginia, relating to allowance to jail physicians, and furnishing medicine and clothing for persons in jail, so as to authorize counties to supplement, to a certain extent, the allowance for jail physicians.
Jails, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 164

An ACT to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions and to declare valid and effectual conveyances made hereafter under similar conditions; and to repeal an act entitled an act to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions, approved March 14, 1924.
Inheritance and succession, Property, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 165

An ACT making it unlawful for any person to go upon or remain upon the lands or premises of another, except for certain purposes, after having been forbidden to do so by the owner or other person in possession or in charge thereof, and prescribing penalties.
Property

Chapter 166

An ACT to provide for the relief of Miss Ruby L. Garst.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 167

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6457 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to assignees of debts secured by mortgages, deeds of trust, vendor’s or mechanic’s liens.
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 168

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge, and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors.
Cemeteries, Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 79 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, apportioning the State into senatorial districts.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19-f, 19-h, 57 and 105 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Transportation, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 171

An ACT validating certain sales heretofore made under deeds of trust to secure debts or indemnify sureties.
Debt, Bonds, Property, Judicial

Chapter 172

An ACT validating acknowledgments heretofore taken by notaries public in the State of Virginia whose commissions have expired.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 173

An ACT to prohibit the sale or receipt of second hand heating or plumbing fixtures or supplies, electrical fixtures or wiring, gas fixtures or appliances, water faucets, pipes, locks, bath tubs, or other second hand fixtures of whatever kind or description pertaining to a building without a permit; to require persons engaged in the buying and selling of such articles to keep permanent records of such transactions and the names and descriptions of the persons participating in the same; to require junk dealers and dealers in such second hand personal property to make reports of such transactions; to exempt certain persons from the provisions of this act; to require the books and premises of all persons affected by this act to be open to police inspection; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to define dealers within the meaning of this act.
Business, Property, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Judicial

Chapter 174

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4896 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the selection and summoning of jurors.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 175

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit, to issue new bonds for the purpose of refunding and/or funding certain outstanding county and district bonds of such county, in which the full faith and credit of the county is pledged for the payment thereof, and to exchange such new bonds for bonds to be so retired.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 176

An ACT to authorize and empower counties, cities and towns to pledge all or any part of fees, rents, tolls, charges and other revenues and receipts from projects, improvements and undertakings, and extensions, additions, improvements and betterments, thereto to secure payment of their bonds, interim certificates and other obligations.
Bonds, Budget, Business

Chapter 177

An ACT to authorize the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to convey all right, title and interest of the Commonwealth, of the University of Virginia and of the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia in and to a certain strip of land to the city of Charlottesville for the purpose of widening Main street in said city.
Property, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 178

An ACT to provide for the public safety and welfare at crossings of roads in the State highway system and railroads; for the separation of grades of such roads and railroads; the elimination of crossings at grade; the construction and improvement of overhead and underpass crossings of roads in the State highway system and railroads; and for the apportionment of costs thereof.
Transportation

Chapter 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 71 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, 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, approved March 27, 1928, as heretofore amended, relating to trust companies.
Public officers

Chapter 180

An ACT for the relief of county treasurers who have, prior to February 1, 1934, paid interest on school warrants regularly issued by the school boards of their respective counties, and/or failed to collect interest on delinquent taxes levied by the boards of supervisors of their respective counties, under certain circumstances.
Budget, Education, Public officers

Chapter 181

An ACT for the relief of J. M. Blackwell.
Public expenditures, Agriculture, Transportation

Chapter 182

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 317 of the Acts of 1924, as heretofore amended, for the protection of foxes in Albemarle, Culpeper, Grayson, Warren, Carroll and Rappahannock, Montgomery, Pulaski and Nelson counties.
Hunting

Chapter 183

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto, to be designated as section 97-b, to provide that any incorporated town in which, on January 1, 1934, was located a branch bank whose parent bank was at that time located in the county in which such town is located, but not in an incorporated town therein, to impose a tax upon the shares of stock in said bank, and to limit the rate of levy of such tax.
Taxation

Chapter 184

An ACT to define, and to provide for the management, control, maintenance and operation of, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for such purpose to provide for a board of directors, to set forth the powers and duties thereof; to define its relation to the Arts Commission and to provide for the disposition of any revenues derived by and from the said museum.
Charity, Education, Cemeteries, Public spaces, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend chapter 6 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new section thereto to be designated as section 70-a, providing that the council of said city may establish a system of pensions for injured, retired or superannuated members of the police and fire departments and prescribing how funds may be raised for such purposes.
Pensions, Fire fighters, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 186

An ACT to make it lawful for any person to set fyke nets at any time, in the Meherrin river in the county of Greensville, below the power dam at Emporia.
Fishing

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of foxes or other fur-bearing or hair-bearing animals in Amelia, Nottoway, Brunswick, Charlotte, Tazewell, Washington and Chesterfield counties, and to provide punishment for the violation thereof, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 188

An ACT to abolish the offices of overseers of the poor in the county
Charity

Chapter 189

An ACT for the protection of foxes in the county of Henry, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Hunting

Chapter 190

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended, relating to issuance of bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of chapter three hundred and forty-two of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled an act to revise, simplify, rearrange and consolidate into one act, which shall constitute and be designated and cited as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia,” the various statutes of the Commonwealth concerning the registration and licensing of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, the licensing of chauffeurs, the collection of fees and disposition of funds collected, the operation of vehicles on the public roads, highways, streets and alleys, the Division of Motor Vehicles and the director of said division, the powers and duties of said division and director, and the penalties for violations of the provisions of certain such statutes; and to repeal all statutes and acts in conflict with the provisions of this act.
Transportation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 192

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter three hundred and forty-two of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled an act to revise, simplify, rearrange and consolidate into one act, which shall constitute and be designated and cited as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia,” the various statutes of the Commonwealth concerning the registration and licensing of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, the licensing of chauffeurs, the collection of fees and disposition of funds collected, the operation of vehicles on the public roads, highways, streets and alleys, the Division of Motor Vehicles and the director of said division, the powers and duties of said division and director, and the penalties for violations of the provisions of certain such statutes ; and to repeal all statutes and acts in conflict with the provisions of this act.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 193

An ACT to provide that when any court of competent jurisdiction shall appoint a receiver for any State bank, or banking institution, or trust company, such court shall have authority to prescribe and limit the rate of interest to be paid upon the claims of depositors; and to provide for the distribution of any surplus, after all such claims have been paid.
Business, Judicial

Chapter 194

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Lawrenceville, 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, Boundaries, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments, Public spaces, Healthcare, Utilities, Death and burial, Employment and labor, Civil Rights, Charity

Chapter 195

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Lebanon, in Russell county, in force February 21, 1873, as heretofore amended, relating to the powers and duties of the town council, and providing that the town may acquire for a public park and playground, parcel of land owned by Russell County Livestock & Agricultural Association.
Municipal charters, Public spaces, Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1908, providing a new charter for the city of Porstmouth, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 46-a, relating to the collection of taxes.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 197

An ACT to repeal section 426 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the taxable situs of property held in trust in certain cases and the taxation of the income thereon.
Taxation

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to create an Armory Commission for the State of Virginia and specify its authority and duties; to authorize said commission to construct and maintain armories, drill and training areas for the National Guard and Naval Militia and their various units; to authorize municipalities, counties, and the State and others to co-operate in and about the construction of armories and providing drill and training areas and to assist in paying therefor; and to authorize municipalities and counties to convey to the State of Virginia lands owned by them on which to construct armories, whether such lands already be used for parks or other purposes
Armed forces, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 199

An ACT to prevent the pollution of certain waters in the county of Mathews, and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Healthcare, Public spaces

Chapter 200

An ACT to make it unlawful to shoot, kill or wound any deer at any time in the counties of Bland, Buchanan, Wise, Dickenson, Lee, Scott, Washington, Russell, Tazewell, Wythe, Smyth, Carroll, Grayson, Floyd, Patrick, Montgomery, Pulaski and Giles, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Hunting

Chapter 201

An ACT to vest in the board of supervisors and other governing bodies of counties having a population greater than 750 inhabitants per square mile, as shown by the last preceding United States census, additional powers and duties as to constructing, reconstructing, extending, altering, maintaining and repairing sewer systems and parts thereof; to authorize the said boards of supervisors and other governing bodies to levy certain taxes and assessments, and to provide for certain exemptions therefrom, for the construction, reconstruction, extension, alteration, maintenance and repair of sewer systems and parts thereof, to provide for the recordation and collection of the same and the handling and disposition of revenues derived therefrom; and for such purposes to vest in the said boards of supervisors and other governing bodies certain powers of eminent domain.
Public expenditures, Utilities, Taxation, Property

Chapter 202

An ACT to repeal an act approved March 24, 1932, entitled an act to prescribe the fees to be paid the coroner of the city of Portsmouth for certain services.
Coroner, Repeal of legislation
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