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1938

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 400 of 445

Chapter 304

An ACT to authorize and empower the governing body of each county; city and town to adopt ordinances licensing and regulating “automobile graveyards” as defined in this act.
Property, Public officers

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 192-b of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to peddlers of goods, wares or merchandise who sell to licensed dealers or retailers.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 81 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing how vacancies in the General Assembly shall be filled
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 307

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 811 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the duties of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia.
Education, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 308

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 935 of the Code of Virginia, providing for a board of visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, their number, method of appointment, term and duties.
Education, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amendment of charters of corporations.
Incorporation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 310

An ACT to declare the necessity of creating political subdivision: of the commonwealth with public and corporate powers to be known a: housing authorities to undertake slum clearance and projects to provide dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; to create such housing authorities in cities and in counties; to define the powers and duties 0 housing authorities and to provide for the exercise of such powers, includ.
Public expenditures, Pensions, Property, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 311

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 176 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to licenses of contractors, plumbers and steam fitters.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 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.
Amendments, Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 313

An ACT to provide that no rule or regulation of the State Highway Commission or the State Highway Commissioner shall prevent the operation of certain motor vehicles on a part of Route No. 2 of the State highway system.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 314

An ACT to validate the payment of interest heretofore made on certain notes of the school board of Claremont School District No. 4 of the county of Surry; to validate the said notes for the purpose of and to the extent necessary for liquidation, and to authorize the application of certain funds realized from a special levy made upon the taxable property in the said school district to the liquidation of the said notes.
Education, Budget, Debt, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 of an act entitled “s 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

Chapter 316

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation, establishment and operation of loan and savings institutions known as ‘credit unions’ ”
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 317

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 176 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to contractors’, plumbers’ and steamfitters’ licenses, so as to except certain persons, firms or corporations dealing in or erecting tombstones from the operation of the said section.
Taxation, Business, Death and burial

Chapter 318

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 653 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to school trustee electoral boards, local school boards, and school districts.
Education, Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 319

An ACT to prohibit, upon certain conditions, any person or per-sons from cutting or removing timber from lands designated by the State Highway Commissioner for the Blue Ridge Parkway and prescribing penal- ties for violations of this act, and conferring jurisdiction upon courts to enjoin violations and attempted violations of this act.
Property, Public spaces, Judicial

Chapter 320

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 71 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, in relation to unlicensed dogs.
Wildlife

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of chapter 5, and Section 2 of chapter 10, of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Danville”
Judicial, Municipal charters, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 10, of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Danville’, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended, so as to authorize the council of the said city to create and fill the office of director of public safety and to prescribe certain of the powers and duties of such director; to impose certain powers and duties upon such director when appointed; to abolish the board of police commissioners; and to provide for a referendum to determine whether the amendment and re-enactment of said Section 1 of Chapter 10 of the said act shall become effective.
Amendments, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 64, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896”, in relation to the civil justice and substitute civil justice said city.
Amendments, Judicial, Lawyers, Municipal charters, Public officers, Civil Rights, Property, Employment and labor

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to establish and to provide for the maintenance and operation, under the management, direction and control of the authorities of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, of a nautical school for merchant marine training, to confer certain express powers and duties upon the said authorities with respect to such school, to permit them to accept gifts and loans and other aid in the maintenance of the said school, and to provide for the practical training of the students attending the same”
Education, Business, Agriculture, Employment and labor

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to powers of corporations.
Business, Incorporation, Bonds, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 326

An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors of counties having a population of less than 12,000 to contribute towards the compensation of deputy clerks.
Budget, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 327

An ACT to authorize and empower the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia to sell and convey a certain piece or parcel of land in the county of Albemarle, Virginia.
Property, Education, Public officers

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend 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, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-a, authorizing the Attorney General to represent, or employ special counsel to represent, certain police officers appointed by the director of the Division of Motor Vehicles and employees of the State Highway Department in certain civil actions arising out of or in connection with their official duties; and providing for the employment of special counsel by the Director of Motor Vehicles and/or the State Highway Commission to employ counsel to represent such officials and employees in criminal prosecutions arising out of or in connection with their official duties.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to establish ‘The State Highway System’”
Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of an act entitled "an act to provide for the establishment, purchase, construction, maintenance and operation of a radio or teletype system or any combination thereof, to be used for transmitting and receiving messages for the detection of crime and the apprehension of criminals, and for other police purposes; to authorize and empower the Governor, in his discretion, to establish, purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire real and personal property for such purpose, to vest in the Governor certain powers in connection therewith; to provide for the cooperation of and with the localities of the Commonwealth; and to appropriate the sum of $75,000.00 for each year of the biennium beginning July 1, 1936, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used by the Governor, in his discretion, in carrying out the provisions of this act: and to repeal Chapter 284 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, as amended, relating to the same matter", approved January 13, 1937, so as to appropriate the sum of $150,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the biennium beginning July 1, 1938, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.
Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Budget

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12, as heretofore amended and Section 11, of an act entitled “an act to provide for the examination and certification of professional engineers, architects and land surveyors and to regulate the practice of engineering, architecture and land surveying; to establish their relation to public works and the surveying and plotting of land”, approved March 19, 1920, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto two new sections numbered 17 and 18, relating to prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this act.
Amendments, Business, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1173 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to creameries, cheese plants, condensed milk plants, ice cream plants, milk distributing plants, and milk and cream buying stations, so as to provide records for proof of payments made for cream and to provide for revocations of licenses for violation of any of the provisions of this section.
Agriculture, Business, Public officers

Chapter 333

An ACT to regulate outdoor advertising outside of the corporate limits of cities and incorporated towns in sight of public highways; to provide for licensing persons engaged in the business of outdoor advertising and for the issuance of permits for advertisements and advertising structures; to prohibit certain advertisements and advertising structures and to provide for the removal of advertisements and advertising structures illegally posted, displayed, erected, used or maintained; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain officers relating thereto; and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act.
Business, Public spaces

Chapter 334

An ACT to provide for and create the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, in which shall function the Hampton Roads Sanitation Commission to declare the necessity therefor. and benefits thereof; to provide the bound.
Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 335

An ACT in relation to sanitation districts heretofore or hereafter created, for the relief of the tidal waters of the State from pollution and the consequent improvement of conditions affecting the public health and the natural oyster beds, rocks and shoals; providing for the creation of such districts; providing for the creation and organization of sanitation commissions in sanitation districts heretofore or hereafter created under this or any other act, and for the appointment, terms, compensation, suspension and removal of the members of such commissions; prescribing the rights, powers and duties of such commissions; authorizing such commissions to contract debt, borrow money and issue bonds and other obligations of such commissions therefor, and prescribing the mode or procedure for and regulating the issuance of such bonds and other obligations, and providing for the payment or redemption thereof; and enlarging and prescribing the rights, powers and duties of counties, cities and towns in relation to such districts and commissions.
Bonds, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections on the question of adopting certain forms of county government, and the election and salaries of members of the county boards in counties adopting any such form of government.
Amendments, Public officers, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 337

An ACT to enable the Commonwealth of Virginia to take advantage of an Act of Congress of the United States, approved September 2, 1937, entitled “An act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in wildlife-restoration projects, and for other purposes”
Wildlife, Hunting, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2707 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to supervisors not being interested in certain contracts.
Amendments, Public officers, Healthcare, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 7 and 191i of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond”
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Business, Transportation, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1493 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to duties of local boards of health.
Healthcare, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend Section 47 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia (Chapter 247, Acts 1930), as amended by Chapter 32, Acts 1936-1937, approved January 14, 1937, relating to penalties for certain violations of the game and inland fish laws.
Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 342

An ACT to create a State Board of Photographic Examiners; to provide for the appointment, removal, compensation, powers and duties of the members, agents and employees of the said Board; to provide for the examination and registration of persons desiring to practice photography and the licensing of persons, firms, corporations and associations engaging in the practice of photography in this State; to provide for the collection of certain fees for such examinations, registrations, and licenses, and to appropriate moneys derived therefrom; to prohibit certain practices in violation of this act; and to prescribe penalties.
Business, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public expenditures, Utilities, Education

Chapter 343

An ACT to prohibit simulation of warrants, processes, writs, notices of execution lien, and notices of motion for judgment, and prescribing penalties.
Judicial, Debt

Chapter 344

An ACT prohibiting the entry by courts of judgments in certain cases where service of process or notice is accepted by another than the defendant, unless notice thereof shall have been mailed to such defendant.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Property

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3265 of the Code of Virginia, relating to taking, catching, picking, canning, packing, buying and selling crabs.
Amendments, Business, Fishing, Industry, Public expenditures, Wildlife

Chapter 346

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 7 of an_act entitled “An act concerning agricultural seeds, and to repeal sections 1138 to 1153, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia”, approved March 7, 1924, as heretofore amended, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-a, prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain seeds.
Agriculture

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend Chapter 83 of the Virginia Code of 1936 (Michie) relating to the State Highway Commission and System, by adding thereto three new sections numbered 1969-e (2), 1969-e (3) and 1975-a (1), and to enact said three new sections into law, all of said sections relating to the State Highway Commission, its powers and duties, and the regulation of the use of the highways
Transportation, Agriculture, Judicial

Chapter 348

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 94, as heretofore 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 lighting equipment on vehicles; and to amend and re-enact Section 116, as heretofore amended, of said act, said section relating to the weighing of vehicles upon the highways.
Transportation, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 349

An ACT to authorize and empower the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, subject to the approval of the Governor, to release, quit-claim, sell, transfer and convey all right, title and interest of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of the said Commission in and to certain lands, together with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, located in the county of Pittsylvania.
Fishing, Wildlife, Public officers, Property, Budget

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3484 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to fees of clerks of courts.
Amendments, Marriage, Divorce, Judicial

Chapter 351

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-g of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to trial justices and clerks of trial justice courts, so as to authorize the appointment of deputy clerks and clerical assistants in certain cases.
Judicial, Public officers, Employment and labor, Budget

Chapter 352

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 5 and 10 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”
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 353

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled "An act to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds by counties, magisterial districts and school districts; to prescribe a mode of procedure therefor; to provide for the payment of such bonds; to validate all bonds so refunded; to prescribe various details pertinent to the subject matter of this act; and to declare an emergency", approved February 28, 1936, so as to include sanitary districts within the provisions of this act.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 10 and 11, and to repeal Section 18, of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Tappahannock, county of Essex”
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 355

An ACT to provide, under certain conditions, for leaves of ab-
Armed forces, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 356

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6555 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions of wages of a laboring man who is a householder or head of a family, so as to increase the amount of such exemptions in certain cases.
Employment and labor, Labor

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4694-a of the Code of Virginia, in relation to slot machines.
Gambling

Chapter 358

An ACT to make it lawful for any person to gig red-horse, carp and other fish except game fish, in the waters of Clinch river and Holston river and their tributaries, within Scott county, in daylight hours during certain periods, and to make it lawful for any person to gig eels, cat fish or any other fish not classed as game fish in the waters of any river or creek within the counties of Amherst and Nelson.
Fishing

Chapter 359

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3033 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to powers of councils of cities and towns and to the fire departments of cities and towns rendering aid beyond the corporate limits.
Amendments, Fire fighters, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 360

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county to appropriate funds for the purpose of compensating dependents of any sheriff or deputy sheriff heretofore or hereafter killed in the performance of his duties.
Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Death and burial

Chapter 361

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to requir all owners, proprietors, superintendents, or conductors of a sawmill or othe: manufacturing plant, and other persons who have dug wells or pits on certais premises after the passage of this act, to fill the same after their abandon ment; and also to require the owners of such premises to see that sucl wells or pits have been properly filled
Amendments, Business

Chapter 362

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered Section 197-a, providing how certain special elections and referenda may be called and held, and the results thereof ascertained and certified.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 363

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3146 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the Commission and Commissioner of Fisheries, so as to provide that the office of the Commissioner of Fisheries shall be in the city of Newport News.
Healthcare, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 364

An ACT to amend the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 36-a, making it unlawful to kill a deer, except with two prongs on one horn, in the counties west of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Hunting

Chapter 365

An ACT to add a new section to Chapter Twenty-one of the Code of Virginia, to be numbered 322-b, which new section relates to the powers of the Governor to remove restrictions and penalties and to re-instate licenses and certificates of attorneys at law.
Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 366

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to persons incompetent to serve as jurors at more than one term during any one year period, and where persons may not be compelled to serve.
Judicial, Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 367

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Cape Charles, Northampton county, 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; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Cape Charles.
Municipal charters, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Recreation, Education, Healthcare, Utilities, Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Civil Rights, Children -- Institutional care, Death and burial, Charity, Cemeteries, Judicial, Voting, Incorporation, Amendments

Chapter 368

An ACT to provide for the creation of a division of the State Corporation Commission, to be known as Division of Aeronautics, as a means for the administration, by the State Corporation Commission, of the functions hereby, heretofore, or which may hereafter be, conferred upon the commission for the licensing of airports, air pilots, et cetera, and for the promotion of aviation in the public interest; to impose taxes upon gasoline purchased in the State and used for propelling airplanes and other aircraft operated intrastate; to provide for payment into a special fund of all gasoline taxes, to the extent of the tax imposed by this law, collected under the general gasoline tax by the Motor Vehicle Division, which under the present, or any future, law would be refundable to the operators of airplanes and other aircraft if demand were made therefor; to provide for the expenditure of the special fund so accumulated by the State Corporation Commission for the administration by the commission, through the said division, of the laws pertaining to aviation as now or as may be hereafter enacted and jurisdiction for the administration thereof conferred on the said commission; to provide for the expenditure by the said State Corporation Commission of the surplus of the fund so created, left after the expenses of administration, for the construction, maintenance and improvement of air-ports and landing fields, to which the public shall have access, with she cooperation of the State Highway Department, or otherwise as may be determined, and for the promotion of aviation in the interest of operators and in the interest of the public; and to appropriate funds for the aforesaid purposes.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 369

An ACT to amend chapter 67 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1607-a, providing for the inspection under the applicable provisions of said chapter, of all tourist camps, and all filling stations and other premises in connection with which shall be maintained water closets or rest-rooms for the convenience of the traveling public, and for punishment for obstructing officers.
Public spaces, Transportation, Business

Chapter 370

An ACT to provide for the payment to the counties of Albemarle and Nelson their respective shares of the principal of a certain fund known as the Dawson fund, and to prescribe how such funds and securities shall be used.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 371

An ACT to give certain persons, firms, associations and corporations a lien for the amount of their charges for cleaning, laundering, dyeing and pressing clothing and other fabrics, and to prescribe how such lien may be enforced.
Business

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 109-a thereof a new section numbered 2773-f 1, providing that in any county operating under the county manager plan provided for in Sections 2773-a to 2773-n, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, for the election of members of the county board of said county and the filling of vacancies on the said board, if and when approved by the qualified voters of the county voting at an election called for such purpose, in a manner and for terms different from that otherwise provided for under the said county manager plan.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 373

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1494 of the Code of Virginia, relating to rules and regulations of boards of health.
Healthcare, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 374

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to create a lien in favor of hospitals for its reasonable charges for caring for persons injured in accidents, the giving of notice of such lien, the effect thereof and to provide for the adjudication of the claims made by hospitals against persons injured in accidents”
Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 375

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1662, as amended, 1060, and 1664, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, and to add thereto the following new sections; section 1663-a, defining adulterated cosmetics; section 1664-a, defining misbranded cosmetics; section 1664-b, defining false advertisement; section 1664-c, prohibiting the dissemination of false advertisement and the introduction and delivery into commerce of adulterated or misbranded drugs or cosmetics; section 1664-d, providing for the seizure and forfeiture of adulterated and misbranded drugs and cosmetics; and section 1664-e, providing for injunctive relief in certain cases.
Business, Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 376

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax”
Boundaries, Business, Budget, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Utilities, Voting, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments, Healthcare, Civil Rights, Pensions, Amendments, Recreation, Salaries, Education, Alcohol, Transportation

Chapter 377

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 378

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 660 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the duties of school board as to school laws and rules and regulations; employment of teachers; restrictions; penalties.
Education, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 379

An ACT to provide for financial aid and assistance to and for certain needy persons in need of public aid or assistance; to that end, to provide for the administration of the provisions of this act, and for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, expenses, powers and duties of the officers, agents and employees, charged with the administration of the provisions of this act; to provide for State and local welfare administrative agencies; to impose certain duties upon the governing bodies of counties and cities; to appropriate money for, and in aid of, the purposes of this act; to impose penalties for violations of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 380

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2850 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of notaries public, their residence, terms and bonds, their removal by the Governor for cause, and the certification of their commissions.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 381

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1021 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to fees and costs of commissions on question: of insanity, inebriacy, feeble-mindedness and epilepsy.
Healthcare, Judicial, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 382

An ACT to regulate the distribution and sale of milk and cream, to define and fix standards for said milk and cream, to provide for bio-assays of certain milk, and to provide for the payment for such assays, and for the disposition of funds collected.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 383

An ACT to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a police communication system under the supervision of the Division of Motor Vehicles, and making an appropriation therefor.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 384

An ACT to provide minimum standards for plumbing and plumbing materials; to define plumbing and plumbing materials as used in this act; to provide for inspection and tests; to prescribe penalties.
Business, Utilities, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 385

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of this State, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors.
Confederate, Cemeteries, Charity, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 386

An ACT to amend Chapter 49 of the Code of Virginia by amending and re-enacting Sections 1110 and 1111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to registration and branding of fertilizers and to further amend said Chapter 49 of the Code of Virginia relating to the duties of the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration with reference to fertilizers and lime and products of that nature by adding a new section to said Chapter 49 of the Code of Virginia numbered 1137-1, authorizing the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration to mine, dig and grind marl in the counties of tidewater Virginia and to sell the same.
Agriculture

Chapter 387

An ACT to authorize the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Commission of Fisheries to establish boundaries between waters over which each has jurisdiction and control.
Fishing, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 388

An ACT to release and transfer to the United States all rights and authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia, concerning wild life, except fish and oysters, within a certain area of 8,950 acres, more or less, in the county of Princess Anne, subject to certain limitations and reset
Wildlife, Agriculture

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2 and 6 of an act entitled an act to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to acquire, by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, scenic easements, or in lieu thereof parcels of land, on either side or both sides of the roadway or highway from a point at or near Jarman’s Gap and extending generally in a southwesterly direction to the North Carolina line, which roadway or highway the State Highway Commissioner has been heretofore authorized to convey to the United States, and which has been set apart and designated by the United States as the proposed Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway; and to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to transfer, assign and convey to the United States said scenic easements, or land, so acquired, approved March 12, 1936, said Section 2 defining scenic easement and designating said roadway as the Blue Ridge Parkway, and Section 6 vesting the Highway Commissioner with the power of eminent domain; to change the section number of said Section 6 to Section 5 and to prescribe the procedure in condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of the roadway or parkway and lands or scenic easements adjacent thereto.
Transportation, Pensions, Public spaces, Public officers, Property

Chapter 390

An ACT to provide for the inspection of sweet cream and ice cream mix imported into the State of Virginia.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3193, 3199, 3208, 3210, 3216, 3223, and 3244 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Commission of Fisheries, the Commissioner of Fisheries, fish, fishing and shellfish; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 3151-a, authorizing the Commission of Fisheries to destroy duplicate and triplicate sets of licenses, and duplicate or triplicate vouchers and invoices, and 3244-a, making returns of employees of the Commission of Fisheries as to posting certain notices conclusive evidence of such posting.
Amendments, Fishing, Healthcare, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 392

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2621 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commissioners of the sinking fund.
Budget

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 581 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the establishment of the art commission, so as to provide for an additional member of such commission.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 394

An ACT to declare the necessity of creating governmental subdivisions of the State, to be known as “soil conservation districts’, to engage in conserving soil resources and preventing and controlling soil erosion; to establish the State Soil Conservation Committee, and to define its powers and duties; to provide for the creation of soil conservation districts; to define the powers and duties of soil conservation districts, and to provide for the exercise of such powers, including the power to acquire property by purchase, gift, and otherwise; to empower such districts to adopt programs and regulations for the discontinuance of land-use practices contributing to soil wastage and soil erosion, and the adoption and carrying out of soil-conserving land-use practices, and to provide for the enforcement of such programs and regulations; to provide for establishing boards of adjustment in connection with land-use regulations, and to define their functions and powers; to provide for the discontinuance of such soil conservation districts; to provide for financial assistance to such soil conservation districts; to appropriate funds for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of this act; and for other purposes.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Property, Wildlife

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5120 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jointure in bar of dower and effect of conveyance or devise.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Marriage, Property

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3085 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to preparation of ballots and method of voting on questions of bond issues.
Amendments, Bonds, Voting

Chapter 397

An ACT to enact a uniform law to secure the attendance of witnesses from without a state in criminal proceedings.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 398

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4998 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appointment of committees for persons convicted of felony.
Judicial, Property, Noncitizens

Chapter 399

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5191-a, providing that re-possession and sale without legal process of personal property sold under a contract whereby the title thereto or a lien thereon is reserved to secure unpaid purchase money, shall operate to cancel and discharge the amount secured by such contract, including ail unpaid purchase money, and providing that said new section shall not affect
Property, Debt, Business, Amendments

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1726-d relating to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors of Virginia and placing a limitation on the time within which a license without examination may be granted a funeral director.
Death and burial, Healthcare

Chapter 401

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5365 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the distribution of estates of, and sale of property descending or passing from, persons presumed to be dead.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 402

An ACT to authorize the Governor of Virginia to convey to the City of Richmond for the purpose of widening Belvidere Street, a certain strip or parcel of land adjacent thereto, now being a part of the State Penitentiary property, in return or exchange for two other parcels of land contiguous to the Penitentiary property, to be conveyed to the Commonwealth, and to authorize the State Prison Board to use and utilize said last mentioned two parcels in connection with the Penitentiary and remove from the first mentioned strip or parcel of land all buildings, structures, and walls now situated thereon and reconstruct same.
Property, Public spaces, Municipal charters, Prisons, Transportation

Chapter 403

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1215 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to ice cream and other frozen products.
Agriculture, Business
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