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1938

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board, with the consent of the Governor, to convey all right, title and interest of the State Hospital Board and of the Southwestern State Hospital in and to certain property in Smyth county to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the construction of route number 88 of the State Highway System.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Healthcare

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5247, 5249 and 5316 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the probate of wills, and the appointment and qualification of appraisers of estates, administrators, executors, curators, and guardians.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the councils of the cities to provide for the cutting of weeds and other foreign growth on vacant property, approved March 23, 1928, as heretofore amended, so as to confer like powers upon boards of supervisors of certain counties and councils of towns.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 262 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to permits for the construction, repair and improvement of buildings and structures in certain counties.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4503 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to punishment for bribing, or offering to bribe commissioners, auditors, arbitrators, umpires or jurors.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7-a 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”
Amendments, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 7

An ACT to name the bridge over New river, in Grayson county, on United States Route 21, the “R. A. Doughton Memorial Bridge”.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to permit blind persons to construct, maintain and operate, under supervision of the Virginia Commission for the Blind, on certain public property stands for the sale of newspapers, periodicals, confections, tobacco and other similar articles.
Employment and labor, Public spaces, Charity, Civil Rights

Chapter 9

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to limitation of actions prevented by defendant, and on foreign contracts.
Judicial, Amendments, Property

Chapter 10

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4385 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the condemnation of property in certain cases.
Property, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend Section 26 of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the town of Shenandoah, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act”, approved March 17, 1926, so as to confer additional powers on the council of the said town.
Amendments, Business, Public officers, Vagrancy, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 3716-a, conferring and imposing upon the State Corporation Commission certain powers and duties relating to banking and insurance and to the administration of laws of this State relating to banking and ee te
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 13

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county which adjoins three cities lying wholly within this State, one of which cities has a population of 170,000 or more as shown by the last preceding United States census, to appoint an executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of such executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of the board of supervisors and certain other county officers in relation thereto; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Budget, Business

Chapter 14

An ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Supervisors of any county which adjoins three cities lying wholly within this State, one of which cities having a population of one hundred seventy thousand or more, as shown by the last preceding United States census, to require the Commissioner of the Revenue to prepare and make all tax bills; to prescribe the powers and duties of the Board of Supervisors in relation thereto, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2701 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment, powers, and removal of certain deputies.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6438 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to lien of employees of transportation, etc., companies, so as to make it apply to individuals, partnerships and unincorporated associations as well as incorporated companies.
Labor, Transportation, Business, Debt

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled "An act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in any county adjacent to a city having a population of thirty thousand, or more, according to the latest United States census; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light, power and gas systems in such districts; to provide for the issuance of bonds to raise funds for establishing of such public utilities in such districts, and to provide for the maintenance thereof, and for the payment of such bonds"
Amendments, Property

Chapter 18

An ACT to authorize the Chairman of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, to issue permits to gig certain kinds of fish in Clinch River, within Russell County, during certain periods and upon certain conditions.
Fishing

Chapter 19

An ACT to authorize the clerk of the circuit court of Norfolk county, Virginia, to transcribe and consolidate the general indices to judgments in his office from 1843 to January 1, 1938, and to make said consolidated transcript a legal record of judgments docketed in his office.
Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 8, 9 and 10 of "An Act relating to public service companies, providing for additional supervision and regulation of their relations and practices with affiliated interests, and declaring an emergency"
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 619, 620, 621, 622 and 623 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of the State Board of Education, local school boards and division superintendents regarding the purchase and distribution of basal and supplementary textbooks for use in the public schools of Virginia.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2968 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to annexation, property to be included and property not to be included in annexed territory, and persons to be included and persons not to be included in enumeration of population.
Amendments, Property, Public officers, Education

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5374 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commitment of estates to sheriffs, and sergeants.
Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 24

An ACT to repeal an act entitled “An act to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the General Assembly, and to appropriate money for the same”
Budget

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4543 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adultery and fornication.
Amendments, Divorce

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 23, as amended, 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, said section relating to non-resident owners and operators of motor vehicles operated in this State.
Transportation, Business, Noncitizens

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 394 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to collection of delinquent taxes so as to empower the Board of Supervisors of any county in this State which adjoins three cities lying wholly in this State, one of which cities having a population of one hundred and seventy thousand or more, as shown by the last preceding United States census, to require the treasurer to continue to collect such delinquent taxes.
Taxation

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 29 of the Code of Virginia, relating to boards of county supervisors under the county manager form of government, so as to provide that in counties having not more than four magisterial districts and adjoining a city in this State having a population of 180,000 inhabitants or more according to the last preceding United States census, the members of the boards of county supervisors shall be elected by the qualified voters of the magisterial districts of such counties.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 708 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the public schools and officers and teachers thereof.
Education, Public officers, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 30

An ACT to authorize the Town of Colonial Heights to issue bonds
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 31

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to judicial circuits, so as to make the city of Buena Vista part of the eighteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 32

An ACT to make the city of Buena Vista a part of the 18th judicial circuit; to establish a circuit court for said city and prescribe the times for holding terms thereof; to make the judge of the 18th judicial circuit the judge of said circuit court; to prescribe the jurisdiction of said circuit court; to transfer to said circuit court all suits, actions, proceedings and matters pending in said corporation court; to provide for the clerk and other officers of said circuit court and a Commonwealth’s attorney for said city; to transfer to the clerk’s office of said circuit court and make parts of the records therein, all record books, papers and records of and in the clerk’s office of said corporation court; and to provide when this act shall be in force.
Judicial

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 230 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by "An Act to amend and re-enact Section 230 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to special taxes on the properties of certain classes of public service companies for rate-making and other purposes, and to appropriate the revenues provided by this act for carrying out the purposes of the same", approved September 7, 1933, so as to eliminate the preamble, and to eliminate, from the portion of the said act providing the purposes to which the revenues derived and to be derived are to be applied, the language "and for the performance of any and all other functions of the State Corporation Commission."
Taxation, Public officers, Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 34

An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the State Hospital Board to convey to the city of Staunton, all the right, title and interest of the Western State Hospital and the Commonwealth of Virginia in and to a perpetual right of way over certain lands, to be used for street and highway purposes.
Transportation, Public spaces, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to create a State Commission on Conservation and Development; to prescribe its powers and duties; to vest it with powers and duties now vested by law in the Water Power and Development Commission, the State Geological Commission, the State Geological Survey, the office of the State Geologist, and the office of the State Forester; and to vest it with power to condemn and acquire land and other property for public park purposes"
Amendments, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 36

An ACT to provide that the second Friday in March of each year shall be designated and known as Arbor Day.
Public spaces

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled “An act to authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to levy a tax for removal of night soil and to enter into contracts with persons, firms, or corporations to remove night soil and to prescribe how they shall be paid for said services; and to repeal chapter 28 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1930, approved February 20, 1930”, approved March 31, 1932.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 237 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to taxes on insurance companies.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 19 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
Business, Taxation

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered Section 4387-a, the object of which new section being, to provide that, in certain condemnation proceedings instituted by cities or counties under the general provisions of Chapter 176 of the Code of Virginia, and in pursuance of the provisions of Section 3042 of the Code of Virginia, for the acquisition of water works systems
Amendments, Bonds, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 41

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Appalachia, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and all former charters and amendments thereof, of said town.
Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Public officers, Boundaries, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Recreation

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 638 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, authorizing the school boards of counties, cities and towns to borrow from the literary fund.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 636 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to loans from the literary fund for purpose of erecting school houses.
Education

Chapter 44

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clarksville, in the county of Mecklenburg, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Clarksville, and to authorize the issue of bonds by said town” approved February 11, 1898.
Municipal charters, Bonds, Property, Budget, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Public spaces, Recreation

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 713 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the purchase of school libraries.
Education

Chapter 46

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 644 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the re-payment of loans made by school hoards of counties and cities from the literary fund, so as to include certain towns within the provisions of the said section.
Education, Death and burial, Cemeteries, Public officers, Amendments, Property

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2702 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to certain county officers not holding other offices.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'an act to provide fire protection and scavenger service in counties adjoining cities with a population of 170,000 or more'
Amendments, Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6069 of the Code of Virginia with reference to affidavits for orders of publication, and when and by whom such orders may be entered.
Judicial, Business

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 12, and 19 of an act entitled “An act to define motor vehicle carriers and transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation, supervision, and control of persons, firms, corporations, and associations, owning, controlling, operating, or managing motor vehicles used for the transportation of persons or property for compensation on the public highways of this State, and of transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation of the rates thereof; to provide for and/or regulate and/or control the operation of, and the charges, rates, or services imposed by any person, firm or corporation operating motor vehicles for compensation over the highways of this State; to provide for the enforcement of this act, and for the punishment of violations thereof; and to repeal chapter 359 of the Acts of 1932, and all statutes and/or acts, or parts of statutes and/or acts, in conflict with the provisions of this act”
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Industry, Public officers

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 100 of the Code of Vi er relating to changes of residence and registration by voters.
Voting

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4989 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals in criminal cases, so as to authorize an appeal after a plea of guilty.
Judicial

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, and Section 8 as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to establish a corporation court for the city of Radford, in Montgomery county”
Judicial, Municipal charters, Salaries

Chapter 55

An ACT. to amend and re-enact an act. entitled “An act to invest
Amendments, Budget, Legislative Amendments, Transportation

Chapter 56

An ACT to authorize the Town of Halifax in Halifax County to issue bonds of said town in an amount not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the purpose of constructing a water works and water supply system, and to provide for the levy of a tax to pay the interest on said bonds and retire the same as they mature.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Taxation

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 33 of an act entitled, “An act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond”
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to orders of publication in certain divorce suits, so as to change the time when depositions may be commenced, and to validate certain divorces granted in cases where the defendant was proceeded against by order of publication.
Divorce, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 59

An ACT to empower and direct the State Highway Commission to re-locate a part of State Highway Route 12, in the counties of Rockingham and Augusta, and to transfer the portion of present Route 12 re-located, to the secondary system of highways.
Transportation

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 50, as heretofore amended, 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"
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 61

An ACT to provide additional funds for the operation of the Banking Division of the State Corporation Commission by authorizing the said Commission to increase the fees and assessments for examination, supervision, registration and licensing of State banks and trust companies, building and loan associations, industrial loan associations, credit unions and small loan companies, and to prohibit the imposition of such fees and assessments upon National banks, to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, and for other purposes.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 62

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to authorize courts administering or liquidating the estates of insolvent banks or trust companies operating in Virginia, and upon petition of trustees engaged in the voluntary liquidation of the estates of such insolvents, to require creditors to act with diligence in obtaining satisfaction of claims allowed therein upon penalty of having such claims barred”
Debt, Judicial

Chapter 63

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Roanoke county, the council of the city of Roanoke, the council of the town of Salem in Roanoke county, and the council of the town of Vinton in Roanoke county to severally appropriate sums not in excess of $5,000.00 for each such political sub-division, to be used for the purpose of commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Roanoke county.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend an act entitled, “An act to provide for the assessment of real estate in cities containing more than one hundred and seventy-five thousand inhabitants; to transfer to the assessor or assessors to be provided for pursuant to this act, the duties of the commissioner of revenue in respect to the assessment of real estate; to authorize such assessor or assessors to make up the land books in such cities and to extend the taxes thereon; and to repeal all provisions of law relative to the assessment and equalization of assessments of real estate in cities containing more than one hundred and seventy-five thousand inhabitants”
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 65

An ACT to amend Article V of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county”, approved January 22, 1900, by adding to said Article V a new section numbered Section 3, in relation to levying school taxes.
Education, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 66

An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the Governor for and on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to convey to the United States of America, without consideration, all the right, title and interest of the Commonwealth in and to a certain tract of land situated in Rappahannock County and adjoining the Shenandoah National Park, and to prescribe the respective jurisdiction and powers of the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia thereover.
Property, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 67

An ACT to provide for fixing, determining and regulating the mini-
Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 192 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to peddlers’ licenses.
Business, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'An act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals of the Commonwealth'
Amendments, Agriculture, Fishing, Property

Chapter 70

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Orange County to acquire land at Locust Grove and to erect thereon a community building and provide furniture and fixtures therefor.
Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 49-a 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’
Amendments

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5553 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the rate of interest allowed to bankers, brokers, corporations and agricultural credit corporations or associations.
Amendments, Business, Debt, Agriculture

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 942 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to the State Teachers Colleges.
Education, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of an act entitled “An act to provide a general road law applicable in all the counties of the Commonwealth; to provide for the location, construction, maintenance, control, jurisdiction, and supervision over all the public roads in the Commonwealth other than roads in the State highway system; to provide for the county and district road funds and the disbursement thereof and accounting therefor; to authorize the employment by the several counties of a county road engineer or a county manager; to provide for free advice and aid from the State highway commission; to authorize elections in the several counties to determine as to the employment of a county road engineer or county manager; to repeal Sections 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2038, and 2039, of the Code of Virginia; to repeal all special road laws applicable in any of the counties of the State; to repeal all acts or parts of acts, general or special, so far as inconsistent with this act”
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 75

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3405, as heretofore amended, and Section 3406 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports by clerks of certain courts of the business of such courts.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3378, as heretofore amended, 3379, as heretofore amended, 3380, 3381, as heretofore amended, 3383, as heretofore amended, 3384, 3385, 3465, as heretofore amended, 3486, as heretofore amended, 5862, 5863, 5866, 5874, 5883, 6337, as heretofore amended, 6350, 6355, as heretofore amended, 6357, as heretofore amended, 6358, as heretofore amended, 6360, 6370, and 6371, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Supreme Court of Appeals, its clerks and employees, its jurisdiction and work, and the practice and procedure therein, and to repeal Sections 4936, 5867, as heretofore amended, 5868, 5869, as heretofore amended, 5871, as heretofore amended, 6361, and 6362 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Lawyers

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the designation of judges to hold courts other than their own, so as to include within its provisions certain retired judges, and the designation of judges and retired judges to assist other judges, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to provide for holding the courts of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit of Virginia, and who may hold the same, and the pay of the judge holding said court, and as to the other counties in said judicial circuit reimbursing the county in which said court is held for part of the pay of said judge so holding said court”
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays.
Judicial, Labor, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend:and:re-enact Section 4447 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to personal property that has been distrainec or levied on.
Amendments, Business, Property, Prisons

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5414 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of commissioners of accounts.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5078 of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriage licenses to certain persons under twenty-one years of age.
Marriage

Chapter 82

An ACT to create a planning board to be known as the Virginia State Planning Board; to provide for the appointment thereof, and the filling of vacancies therein; to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for its organization, meetings, and personnel; and to provide for the acceptance by the board of any funds given it.
Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4978 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to forfeited recognizances, so as to enlarge the jurisdiction of trial justices with respect thereto.
Judicial, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 84

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 61 and 62, as heretofore amended, and Section 71 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, ‘said sections relating to reckless driving, speed limits, prohibited acts, and penalties, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 86-a requiring operators of certain motor vehicles disabled upon highways to set out flares, torches, flags or other warning devices.
Public officers

Chapter 85

An ACT to regulate lobbying, to regulate the employment of persons, and the activities of persons employed, to promote or oppose legislation before the General Assembly of Virginia and the committees and members thereof, or either, and to provide penalties for violations of this act.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1196 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adulteration of products made from cereal grains.
Agriculture

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section numbered 3184-a, relating to unlawful fishing and providing penalties for its violation and for informer’s fees.
Fishing

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5074, as heretofore amended, and 5096 of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriage licenses and certificates of marriage.
Marriage, Public officers

Chapter 89

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5080 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appointment of persons to celebrate rites of marriage.
Marriage

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-f of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of trial justices.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 265-a, in relation to the assessment of lots in subdivisions of tracts of land.
Taxation, Property, Amendments

Chapter 92

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section four hundred and three of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to additional remedies for the collection of taxes, State, county and municipal.
Taxation

Chapter 93

An ACT to repeal Section 80 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

Chapter 94

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors and other governing bodies of the counties to release upon certain conditions the liability for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid county and district taxes upon real estate for the year 1937 and all previous years, and to release officers charged with the collection of such taxes from liability for such interest, penalties and costs, upon certain conditions.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 95

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 50 of the Tax Code of Virginia relating to income taxes on estates and trusts.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 33, as amended, 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, relating to registration fees.
Transportation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 97

An ACT to provide for the correction by the court of erroneous assessments of taxes and local levies against real estate in counties where there had been no general re-assessment of real estate since 1930 and no board of equalization of real estate assessments appointed since 1930.
Taxation, Property, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 98

An ACT to empower the councils’ and’ other governing bodies of cities and towns to release the liability and‘liens for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid taxes due such cities and towns for any year or years prior to and including the year 1937, provided such taxes are paid on or before December 5th, 1938.
Taxation

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of, and to add sub-divisions | (r) and (s), prescribing certain further exemptions, to 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 persons, 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”
Amendments, Business

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend Section 1597 of the Code of Virginia Se
Business

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 642 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to restrictions upon making eae retirement of previous loans.
Education, Budget
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