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1940

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An Act to require the sheriff and his deputies and all other officers of the county of Buchanan, authorized to make arrests, to wear uniforms or some insignia of office, while in performance of their duties, and to provide for forfeiture of office for failure to comply with such requirement.”
Law Enforcement

Chapter 203

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 thousand dollars ($20,000.00) for the purpose of constructing and providing a Sewer System for the Town of Halifax, 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

Chapter 204

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4694 of the Code of Virginia, relating to forfeiture of money and things of value drawn or received or proposed to be drawn in a lottery, so as to include money and personal property used in connection with the promotion, operation and conduct of a lottery or attempted lottery.
Gambling, Public expenditures, Property, Law Enforcement

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of an act entitled ‘‘An act creating a sanitary district in Henrico County, Virginia, to provide for the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation by said district of water supply, sewerage, light and power and gas systems by such district; to provide for the issuance of county bonds on behalf of such district for said purposes, and to provide funds for establishing and operating such public utilities therein.”
Bonds, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 206

An ACT to authorize the boards of county supervisors of certain counties to invest sinking funds in bonds of the United States, the State of Virginia, or of any county, city, town or district in the State of Virginia.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 207

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled "An Act to provide for the regulation of public dance halls located in counties adjoining cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or more and in counties having a density of population of more than three hundred per square mile according to the last United States census," approved March 9, 1926, as amended, so as to make it apply to public dance halls in all the counties in the State, and to authorize the boards of supervisors or other governing bodies to impose license taxes on the operators of such public dance halls.
Amusement, Charity

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘‘An act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.”
Transportation

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new Section numbered 2769, fixing the compensation and mileage of members of boards of supervisors of counties, and to repeal Section 2769-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject.
Budget, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 210

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clinchport, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Budget, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1110, 1111, 1112 and 1120 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the registration, branding, analysis and sale of fertilizers, and penalties for violations.
Agriculture

Chapter 212

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 350 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to county finance board and depositories for county funds.
Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 213

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5964 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the places for holding circuit and corporation courts, so as to authorize the judge of the circuit court of any county or city to enter certain orders and decrees at any place within his circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2715 of the Code of Virginia, relating to calling special meetings of boards of SOEL TOE and matters which may be considered at such meetings.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 215

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2457, 2458, 2464, 2471, 2472, 2477, 2479, 2480, 2481, 2482, 2487, 2489, 2490, 2491, 2493, 2495, 2500, 2501, 2502, 2503, 6267, and 6268 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to repeal Sections 2451, 2452, 2453, 2467, and 2473 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal Sections 274 and 391 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to delinquent lands and lots.
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 216

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections.353, 354. and.355 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the deposit of certain public records in the State Library
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5078 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to issuance of marriage licenses for certain persons under twenty-one years of age.
Marriage, Custody of children, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4776 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conviction of persons accused of felonies.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 219

An ACT to prohibit the State Highway Commission and the State Highway Commissioner from planting or causing to be planted certain plants or weeds on State highway rights of way, to require the said Commission to cause such of said plants or weeds as have been heretofore so planted or caused to be planted to be destroyed, and to authorize certain landowners to destroy or cause to be destroyed certain plants and weeds growing on State highway rights of way.
Agriculture, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 33 thereof a new section numbered 698, providing for the levying of taxes and appropriating money in counties, cities and towns for public school purposes, and to repeal Section 698-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 221

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 527-a, authorizing the Virginia Conservation Commission to require permits to be purchased by persons who hunt and trap in certain State forests, to prescribe the form of such permits and the manner of issuance, and to impose certain restrictions and conditions upon hunting and trapping in the State forests; requiring the clerks of certain courts to issue such permits; establishing a special fund of the proceeds derived from the sale thereof, providing for the expenditure of the said fund and making certain appropriations for such purpose; authorizing the Virginia Conservation Commission to enter into certain agreements for game management in the said State forests; and prescribing certain penalties. [SB 41
Hunting

Chapter 222

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

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6152 of the Code of Virginia, relating to trial of claim of third party, to property distrained or evied ons 71
Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 224

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, and known, designated and cited as the ‘‘Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act’, said section relating to taxes.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Taxation

Chapter 225

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county having an area of more than forty and less than fifty-five square miles of high land, or land above low water line or mark, to create the office of general registrar; to provide for the appointment of general registrars, fix their qualifications, compensation and duties; and to provide for abolishing the office of registrar for the several election districts in such county, upon the appointment of such general registrar.
Voting

Chapter 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6035 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the trial by certain justices, of claims of third parties to property levied on under certain executions or distress warrants, and to money and other personal estate subject to the lien of such executions.
Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 298 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to continuance of cases where an officer or a member of the General Assembly is a party to such case, or attorney for a party thereto.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5962 of the Code of Virginia, relating to recordation of court proceedings and to judges of courts signing court order books, so as to provide how such books may be signed when the judge of a court dies without having signed in the order books, all the orders or decrees endorsed for entry by him, and entered of record in said books.
Judicial

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 75 of Chapter 400 of the Act of the General Assembly of 1918, commonly known as “The Workmen’s Compensation Act”
Amendments, Employment and labor, Taxation

Chapter 230

An ACT to declare policy as to, and to determine the character of, plans, projects, or enterprises for the furnishing of future hospital, medical and/or surgical services
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 19 of the Tax Code of Virginia in relation to warrants for the collection of taxes.
Taxation, Amendments, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 232

An ACT to authorize and empower the State Highway Commission to construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain and repair, as a part of the primary system of State highways, a new section of road running by, around, or partially around, the town of Salem in Roanoke County.
Transportation

Chapter 233

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6 of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to prescribe the method of ascertainment of principal and income and the apportionment of receipts and expenses among tenants and remaindermen, and to make uniform the law with reference thereto’
Amendments, Bonds, Property

Chapter 234

An Act to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 13 and 14 of an act entitled ‘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.’
Amendments, Business, Public spaces, Transportation, Agriculture

Chapter 235

An ACT to prescribe the conditions for and method of abandoning parts of the secondary highway system which it is necessary to flood in impounding the waters of a stream for purposes of a water supply for a municipally owned water works system; to impose on the city or town owning said system the duty of relocating, furnishing the right of way for and constructing a road in lieu of that to be abandoned, all subject to the approval of the State Highway Commission and to provide that title to such relocated highway or road shall vest in the Commonwealth as a part of the secondary highway system, and all public rights in the abandoned road shall vest in said city or town.
Transportation

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered Section 116, making it unlawful, under certain circumstances, for certain persons to pay or offer to pay poll taxes of another person, and providing that any person who shall pay or offer to pay said poll taxes in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Voting, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 237

An ACT to provide a method whereby a board of supervisors may discontinue an old road where a new road has been or is constructed to take its place.
Transportation

Chapter 238

An ACT to make it unlawful to fish on Sunday in any of the waters in Giles, Bland and Tazewell Counties, except Mountain Lake in Giles County; to prescribe certain forfeitures for violations thereof; and to repeal an act entitled 'An Act to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of Giles County except with hook and line, and to prohibit the taking of fish from certain streams in said county, during certain seasons; to prohibit fishing on Sunday; to prohibit the use of fish berries, dynamite and other explosive or chemical substances for the taking, or destruction of fish; and to prescribe the punishment for violations thereof.'
Fishing

Chapter 239

An ACT to authorize and empower the heads of the several administrative departments, divisions, institutions and agencies of the State to cause, with the approval of the Governor, the records and papers of their respective departments, divisions, institutions and agencies to be photographed or micro-photographed and destroyed, under certain conditions to authorize the acquisition and use of certain facilities and equipment relating thereto, and to provide for the admissibility in evidence of such photographs, microphotographs and photographic and photostatic copies thereof.
Public officers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 240

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'An Act to prohibit the importation into, or breeding within, the counties of Rappahannock, Russell and Culpeper, any German or Belgian Shepherd, or any other dog having one-fourth or more of the blood of either of them; to require persons now owning any such dog within said county to procure from the county treasurer a special license therefor; to prescribe the tax on such license; and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act.'
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 241

An ACT to name the bridge across Pigg River in Pittsylvania County on State Highway Route 40 the “Stanhope Hurt Bridge”.
Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 242

An ACT to name the concrete bridge across Clinch River, at St. Paul, Virginia, on State Highway No. 64, the Charles Bickley Memorial Bridge
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 243

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey, under certain circumstances, to the City of Richmond an easement for an alley over the property located on the south side of Broad Street, between Governor and Fourteenth Streets, within the City of Richmond, said property being acquired by the Commonwealth of Virginia for the erection of the Central Highway Office Building.
Utilities

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1017 and 1020, of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to commissions on insanity, epilepsy, and inebriacy, and the commitment and transfer of such persons to certain institutions.
Healthcare, Judicial, Armed forces, Public officers

Chapter 245

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 58-a of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, said section relating to alcoholic beverages under United States customs bonds, so as to provide to what ships the same may be released.
Alcohol

Chapter 246

An ACT to fix the number of terms of the circuit courts of the twenty-fourth judicial circuit, and to designate the days upon which the same shall commence.
Judicial

Chapter 247

An ACT to amend Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, by adding thereto a new section numbered 31-a, authorizing and prescribing the method of contesting local option elections held under the provisions of the said act.
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 248

An ACT designating the open season for hunting, killing and capturing deer in King George County and prescribing penalties.
Hunting

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘An Act to prescribe the times for holding the regular terms of the circuit courts in the twenty-seventh judicial circuit.’
Judicial

Chapter 250

An ACT to prescribe a continuous open season for the hunting and shooting of foxes in Rockbridge County.
Hunting

Chapter 251

An ACT to amend Chapter 88, Acts 1932, relating to the taking of fish in Sussex and Greensville Counties so as to include the county of Brunswick.
Fishing

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2688 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the rearrangement, increase and diminution, and the change of names, of magisterial districts in counties.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Boundaries

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6427 of the Code of Virginia relating to the recordation of memoranda of mechanic’s liens, and Section 6469 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the recordation and release of notices of lis pendens and attachment, so as to provide for the recordation of certain such memoranda and notices in the clerk’s office of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, Part II. [S B 34]
Business, Property, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 254

An ACT for the relief of I. J. Smith
Charity, Healthcare, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 255

An ACT to authorize the use of an outline map of the State of Virginia on agricultural and other food products; to prescribe its use; to vest certain powers with reference thereto in the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration and the Director of the Division of Markets; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 256

An ACT to add to the primary system of State Highways, Chesapeake Avenue, from LaSalle Avenue to Pear Avenue, in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, being a part of Route No. 1510, and to name said highway the Merrimac-Monitor Memorial Highway.
Transportation, Public spaces, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 257

An ACT to provide for the creation of produce market authorities in certain cities; to prescribe the rights, powers, functions and duties of such authorities and of the officers, agents and employees of such authorities; to prescribe with reference to such authorities certain exceptions and limitations with respect to licenses and taxes; and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain officers with respect to such authorities.
Agriculture, Business, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 258

An ACT to add to the primary system of State highways one mile of road extending from Bloxoms Corner to Route 168 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, being a part of Route 616 and, to transfer from the primary system of State highway three miles of road extending from Bloxoms Corner to Grand View in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, being a part of Route 167.
Transportation

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the supervision, regulation and control of the production, processing, transportation, storage, distribution, and sale of milk and cream; to create a Milk Commission and local milk boards and to define and provide for the functions, duties and powers thereof; to provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, and expenses of such commission and boards and the members, officers, agents and employees thereof; to provide for licensing processors, bottlers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers of milk and cream, or either; to provide for the raising of funds for the administration of this act and to provide for the disposition of revenue collected hereunder and to impose penalties for violations of the provisions of this act,’ approved March 29, 1934, relating to the appointment, qualifications, compensation and functions of the Milk Commission.
Agriculture

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 108-b of the Code of Virginia, relating to the registration of voters in certain cities, so as to make the provisions thereof applicable to all counties and towns.
Voting

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 32 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 violation thereof,
Business, Property, Public officers

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4978 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to forfeited recognizances and proceedings thereon.
Judicial

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact former 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, Property

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 267 of the Tax Code of Virginia
Taxation, Property, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the adoption of minor children.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children

Chapter 266

An ACT to define utility assets, utility securities and public utilities; to regulate the acquisition and disposition of such utility assets and utility securities by such public utilities; to prescribe the powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission with reference thereto; and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Utilities, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 267

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2737 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the board of supervisors compromising judgments of claims against county treasurers and ex-treasurers and their sureties
Amendments, Debt, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 268

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia, 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, Monuments and memorials, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 269

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6 of an act entitled ‘An act tc provide for the supervision, regulation and control of the production, processing transportation, storage, distribution, and sale of milk and cream; to create a Milk Commission and local milk boards and to define and provide for the functions, duties and powers thereof: to provide for the appointment, suspension. removal, compensation, costs, and expenses of such commission and boards and the members, officers, agents and employees thereof; to provide for licensing processors, bottlers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers of milk and cream, or either; to provide for the raising of funds for the administration of this act and to provide for the disposition of revenue collected hereunder and to impose penalties for violations of the provisions of this act,' approved March 29, 1934, so as to provide for appeals to certain courts of the Commonwealth from the orders and decisions of the Milk Commission in certain cases, and to prescribe the procedure therefor and the incidents thereof.
Agriculture, Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘An act to authorize boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to enter into certain agreements for the purpose of providing for their respective counties, cities and towns paintings, carvings, sculpture and other works of art; and for such purposes to authorize such boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies to furnish materials, services and supplies and to appropriate and expend money,
Amendments, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘An act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.'
Transportation

Chapter 272

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to construct, maintain and repair a certain road in the town of Halifax, county of Halifax, as a part of the primary system of State highways, and to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of said county to convey the necessary right of way for the said road.
Transportation

Chapter 273

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 70 of the Tax Code of Virginia relating to the taxation of money.
Taxation

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 53, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934 and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
Alcohol

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to limitation of actions when prosecution of action obstructed by defendant in certain cases, and to limitation of actions on foreign contracts.
Judicial, Debt

Chapter 276

An ACT to fix the number of terms of the circuit courts of the Thirty-third judicial circuit, and to authorize the judge of such courts to fix the days for the commencement of the said terms.
Judicial, Business, Healthcare, Agriculture

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1207 and 1208 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the inspection of milk and cream, so as to require license for sampling and weighing milk or cream as a basis of determining the value of same in buying or selling.
Agriculture

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 10 of an act entitled ‘An act to define the terms ‘milk’ and ‘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 1211-1, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.’
Agriculture

Chapter 280

An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘An act to revise, simplify, arrange and consolidate into one act the general game, inland fish and dog statutes of Virginia, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as ‘The Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia’.’
Wildlife, Fishing, Amendments

Chapter 281

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 265 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to assessment of land divided among joint owners.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 282

An ACT to provide for the sterilization of all bottles, jugs, cans, barrels and containers used in the packing, bottling, storage, distribution and sale of non-alcoholic beverage and drink products
Business, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered 5139-b, to provide how curtesy may be barred.
Inheritance and succession, Marriage

Chapter 284

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1173 of the Code of Virginia, relating to licenses for and records and reports of certain creameries, cheese plants, condensed milk plants, ice cream plants, milk distributing plants, and milk and cream buying stations, so as to provide for revocation of licenses for certain violations of the provisions of this section.
Agriculture

Chapter 285

An ACT to provide for the regulation and control of the manufacture, sale, advertising of and traffic in certain foods; to define adulterated or misbranded food, and to prohibit the manufacture and sale of and traffic in such food; to confer upon the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration and the Board of Agriculture and Immigration certain powers and duties with respect to certain foods, and to authorize certain injunctive relief to restrain, and to provide penalties for, violations of certain provisions of this act.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 322 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 287

An ACT to authorize and direct the State Highway Commission to accept a ferry across the James River at Hatton in Albemarle County, and to maintain and operate such ferry as a connecting link in the State system of highways.
Transportation

Chapter 288

An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Section 9 of an Act Relating to the Maintenance and Improvement of Certain Roads, and to Add a New Section Numbered 11-b Authorizing the Transfer of Roads from the Secondary System to the Primary System of State Highways
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 289

An ACT to fix the salaries of the members of the board of commissioners, or of the county board, as the case may be, in counties which adopt certain optional forms of county organization and government.
Salaries, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 290

An ACT to make it unlawful to fish with nets or seines in Falling River or its tributaries, vu the county of Campbell, and to pr 2scribe penalties for violations.
Fishing

Chapter 291

An ACT to name the bridge across the Chickahominy River at Barretts Ferry, connecting Charles City and James City counties, the ‘‘Chickahominy Bridge.”’
Transportation

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1830, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to safety appliances and to the powers of the Commissioner of Labor with reference thereto.
Employment and labor

Chapter 293

An ACT to provide for service of process, or notice, in proceedings before, and render binding the actions of, the State Corporation Commission, in its administration of the provisions of Chapter 433, Acts of the General Assembly, 1928, pertaining to rates, etc., of fire insurance underwriters doing business in Virginia, as same has been, or shall be, amended, and otherwise pertaining to procedure in the administration of said Act.
Business, Public officers

Chapter 294

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used by the Virginia Conservation Commission in connection with the proposed establishment by the United States in Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia of the ‘Cumberland Gap National Historical Park’, and to confer upon the said commission certain powers in connection with such proposed park.
Budget, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5553 of the Code of Virginia, relating to loans by, and the rate of interest allowed to bankers, brokers and certain other corporations and associations.
Amendments, Business, Debt, Agriculture

Chapter 296

An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 7 of the Act to Provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission
Amusement, Business, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3210 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to licenses to take or catch oysters, clams and scallops.
Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 298

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4226-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the collection of insurance premiums, to the allowance of commissions thereon in certain cases, and to the licensing and regulation of non-resident insurance brokers.
Business

Chapter 299

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘“‘An act to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security and at a low rate of interest.”’
Business, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufacturies of iron and steel, and all other manufacturies, and railroad clerks the payment of wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States approved May 23rd, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912.”
Employment and labor, Business, Industry

Chapter 301

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 306 and 307 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the duties of the Clerk of the House of Delegates.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 302

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act requiring assistants and officers appointed by the motor vehicle commissioner and engaged in the enforcement of the laws concerning the operation of motor vehicles to give bond for the lawful and faithful discharge of their duties”
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures
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