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1942

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Chapter 303

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 357 of the Tax Code of Virginia, prescribing the time within which certain warrants on county treasurers may be paid.

Taxation

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 167, as amended, of the Acts Of 1938, approved March 17, 1938, which made certain special provisions as to certain kinds of dogs in certain named counties, imposed certain prohibitions relative thereto, prescribed certain license fees, and imposed certain penalties:

Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 28 of Chapter 159 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1928, approved March 10, 1928, relating to discontinuance of gates across public roads; and to repeal Section 27 of said chapter, relating to the same matter.

Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 879 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the inspection of certain plants and the issuance of certain inspection certificates, so as, among other things, to authorize, under certain conditions, certain plants to be shipped into Virginia under certificates not issued in Virginia and to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to seize, treat or otherwise safely to dispose of, or to cause to be so seized, treated or disposed of, certain infected or infested plants and materials; and further to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections, numbered 870-a and 882-a, defining the terms “nursery” and “nursery stock”, heretofore defined by Rules and Regulations, and authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to enter into certain reciprocal agreements.

Agriculture, Business, Public officers

Chapter 307

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 238 of the Act: of the General Assembly of 1940, approved March 27, 1940, relating to fishin; on Sunday in certain counties.

Fishing, Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 308

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1945 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to appointment of judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts, to provide that in any city having a population of more than 25,000 and lying wholly within a county having a population of more than 58,000, according to the last preceding United States census, the judge of such court need not be a person licensed to practice law.

Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Lawyers, Municipal charters

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6167 of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedure where death or other fact is relied on in abatement in the appellate court.

Amendments, Death and burial, Marriage, Judicial

Chapter 310

An ACT to provide that certain corporations which were chartered to transact fire insurance on the mutual plan, and which have issued no capital stock although authorized by their charter so to do, shall be deemed fire insurance companies operating on the assessment plan and shall be assessed for taxation on the same basis as corporations without capital stock.

Taxation, Business

Chapter 311

An ACT to provide for the supervision, regulation and control of rents and rental agreements in certain areas of the State affected by the war and defense program; to authorize the Governor, under certain conditions, to appoint local emergency rent boards for Certain areas, and to prescribe the powers, duties, and functions of such boards, and of the Governor in connection therewith; to prohibit recovery of possession by landlords in certain instances ; and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.

Civil Rights

Chapter 312

An ACT to create a sanitary district in Chesterfield County; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such county as to such district; to provide for the construction, acquisition, maintenance, and operation of certain public utilities and services in such district; and to provide that the said board of supervisors shall, with respect to such district, have all such powers and duties as are imposed upon the boards of supervisors with respect to sanitary districts by general law.

Healthcare

Chapter 313

An ACT for the relief of Fannie Bass.

Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Charity, Death and burial

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 374-b, to authorize the Attorney General to investigate complaints of violations of Chapter 441 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, and therein designated as the “Unfair Sales Act”, or cause such complaints to be investigated ; to provide for instituting and conducting proceed-ings against violators; and to provide for publishing and circulating the provisions of said Act, and the Attorney General’s interpretation thereof.

Business, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 315

An ACT to relieve the owners and operators of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers used for agricultural or horticultural purposes from certain requirements of law with respect to registering and licensing such vehicles, under certain conditions, to prescribe the rights and duties of the owners, lessees and operators of such vehicles with respect to fuel tax refunds, and to repeal provisions of law inconsistent with this act.

Agriculture, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 316

An ACT to define and regulate the sale of used and second-hand watches, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act.

Business, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 317

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, and 16 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-37, approved December 18, 1936, as heretofore amended, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act, said sections relating to definitions, benefits, benefit eligibility conditions, disqualification for benefits, claims for benefits, contributions, employment service, collection of contributions, and penalties, so as, among other purposes, to make certain changes therein, especially with respect to definitions of employment, and to provide for the protection of benefit rights of persons in the military service of the United States, to change the minimum benefits payable, to provide for a Board of Review, to provide for appeals to the Supreme Court of Appeals in certain cases, to add a new provision relating to determination of liability, to provide for adjustments in rate of contributions in case of certain amendments to the Federal statutes relating to unemployment compensation tax, and to repeal the provision requiring the Commissioner of Labor shall be chief executive of the Virginia State Employment Service.

Amendments, Employment and labor, Labor, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 318

An ACT to promote, protect and develop the livestock industry in this State, to prescribe that the standards prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture for the inspection and grading of beef be adopted by the State of Virginia; to provide that all beef requisitioned by the institutions or instrumentalities of the State shall be on United States Government grades; to provide for an inspector or grader of such beef and for payment of his compensation and expenses; to provide for payment of fees for such inspection or grading and to require certain reports.

Agriculture

Chapter 319

An ACT to regulate the acquisition of motor vehicle tires, and to prescribe penalties.

Business, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 320

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3875, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedure for amendment of charter of a non-stock corporation, so as to provide for amendment changing principal office without vote of members having voting powers ; to conform the section to certain changes made in other, or by previous, legislation; to make certain formal changes ; and to provide for recordation of amendments as in case of stock corporations.

Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the department of law enforcement in counties having the county executive form of government.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers, Prisons

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5433 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disbursement of certain funds by certain fiduciaries.

Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, approved

Alcohol

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4827-a, authorizing certain officers to make arrests without warrants in certain cases and prescribing the procedure in such cases.

Law Enforcement

Chapter 325

An ACT to establish a contributory retirement system for certain State employees, and for public school teachers and certain other employees of local public school boards; and to repeal Chapter 36 and Sections 787 to 805, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the retirement of teachers.

Education, Employment and labor, Public officers, Pensions, Healthcare

Chapter 326

An ACT to permit the use and leasing of school buildings and grounds in Scott County for fairs, carnivals and similar exhibitions; to prescribe the terms upon which buildings and grounds may be so used and leased; to provide for the disposition of rents received therefrom; and to repeal Chapter 361, Acts of 1936.

Amusement, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 49, as amended, of the Game Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to hunting, trapping and fishing on the property of another.

Hunting, Fishing

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend “The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act”, which was approved March 7, 1934, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section numbered 18-c, prohibiting the sale of certain alcoholic beverages except at

Alcohol

Chapter 329

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Prince William county to refund to C. C. Lynn certain taxes erroneously assessed against, and paid by him on, a certain tract of land in said county, for the years 1929 to 1936 inclusive.

Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 330

An ACT to provide that service in the armed forces of the United States shall be a discharge of the obligation of any person to render certain services in consideration of any State scholarship awarded to or received by such person as a student in certain institutions of higher learning.

Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5827, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to limitations on enforcement of deeds of trust, mortgages and certain other liens.

Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 332

An ACT to create the Negro Memorial Commission and prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the appointment of the members of such commission; to authorize the said commission to erect a suitable memorial of the landing of the first permanent group of African Negroes in Virginia; and to appropriate funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

Monuments and memorials, Civil Rights

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1080-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the appointment of guardians and committees in certain cases.

Wards, Judicial

Chapter 334

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 126 of the Code of Virginia, relating to surveyors and superintendents of the poor, and Section 127 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to election and term of office of certain district officers, to omit provisions therefrom as to superintendents, and overseers, of the poor.

Amendments, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 335

An ACT concerning arrests of peace officers, providing for the questioning and detention of suspects, searching suspects for weapons, the force permissible in making and resisting arrests, arrests without a warrant, the release and detention of persons arrested and the identification of witnesses, and prescribing penalties and making uniform the law relating thereto.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Civil Rights, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend Section 253 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the furnishing of lists of expenses by candidates, so as to require to be included any payments of money or consideration given or promised to the publisher of any periodical ; and to repeal Section 232 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to statement of expenditures by candidates in primaries.

Legislative Amendments

Chapter 337

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 246 of the Code of Virginia, so as to permit any candidate, even though declared a nominee, to have his name printed on the ticket.

Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 338

An ACT to provide that any person born in this State prior to June 14, 1912, may, under certain circumstances, have the date and place of his birth established by a court order, and certified to the Registrar of Vital Statistics, upon which record, the Registrar may issue a birth certificate to such person.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new Section numbered 1515-b, to prohibit the removal of cases of infectious, contagious, communicable or dangerous diseases from one health jurisdiction to another except with the permission of the health officers of both jurisdictions, and to prescribe penalty for failure to comply therewith.

Healthcare

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1515-a, requiring certain persons to report certain information concerning communicable diseases, and imposing penalty for failure so to do.

Healthcare

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend 'The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act', Chapter 94, Acts 1934, approved March 7, 1934, as amended, by adding a new section numbered 28-a, providing for refunds, under certain circumstances, of certain excise taxes collected on beer during the two years beginning July 1, 1940, and thereafter.

Alcohol

Chapter 342

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4235 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the licensing of certain insurance agents, agencies and company representatives, to the revocation thereof under certain conditions, and to provide penalties.

Business, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 343

An ACT to — and re-enact Section 519 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the publication of notice of suits to residuum of a decedent’s estate, belonging to the Commonwealth, and any other property derelict or having no rightful owner.

Inheritance and succession, Property, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 33 of Chapter 94, Acts, 1934, approved March 7, 1934, short title of which is ‘““The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act”, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by druggists upon prescriptions,

Alcohol, Business, Healthcare, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 345

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county adjoining any city in this State having a population of more than one hundred and ninety thousand, according to the latest preceding United States census, or any county which has an area of less than seventy square miles of highland, to provide for the annual assessment of the real estate in such county,

Taxation, Property

Chapter 346

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 20 of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, of which the short title is 'Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938.'

Inheritance and succession, Death and burial, Healthcare

Chapter 347

An ACT to repeal Chapter 116, Acts 1930, approved March 10, 1930, relating to building and loan associations.

Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 348

An ACT to authorize patent attorneys to practice patent law in Virginia so long as the U. S. Patent Office, or any part thereof, is located in Virginia, without being licensed as attorneys at law in Virginia, under certain conditions; and to require a license of and impose a license tax upon any such attorney who maintains an office in this State.

Business, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Lawyers, Public expenditures

Chapter 349

An ACT for the relief of the Cavalier Distributing coat

Alcohol

Chapter 350

An ACT to appropriate certain funds for State aid in the development of certain public library services, particularly for rural communities, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the State Library Board and of certain other persons with respect to the expenditure of such funds and of similar future appropriations.

Education, Public expenditures, Libraries

Chapter 351

An ACT to authorize the Governor to accept, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a Conveyance from the Tidewater Tuberculosis Hospital Association of certain property in Princess Anne County; to authorize the State Board of Health when such conveyance is made, to control, maintain, operate and use such property in connection with its work in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis.

Healthcare

Chapter 352

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 3 of the Acts of Assembly, Extra Session 1933, known as the 3.2 Beverage Act, as heretofore amended, in relation to excise taxes.

Alcohol, Taxation, Budget, Armed forces

Chapter 353

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 27 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, approved March 7, 1934, as heretofore amended, in relation to excise taxes.

Alcohol, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 354

An ACT to authorize the Medical College of Virginia and the University of Virginia severally to establish certain medical scholarships, to prescribe the conditions and restrictions under which such scholarships may be awarded and paid, to provide for repayment by the recipients of such scholarships under certain conditions, to establish a special fund of any money so repaid, and to appropriate funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

Education

Chapter 355

An ACT to continue the Division of Aeronautics in the Department o!

Public expenditures, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 356

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4830 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to bail by bail commissioners and clerks of courts.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 357

An ACT to provide for compensation of ex-judges of circuit or city courts which have been abolished, who have attained the age of seventy years, and who served as judge of any such court for not less than fifteen years.

Judicial, Pensions

Chapter 358

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 225 and 227 of the Tax Code of Virginia, the latter as heretofore amended, relating to telegraph and telephone companies and operators.

Taxation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 359

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 78 of the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, prescribing the duty of drivers of other vehicles with respect to police and fire department vehicles.

Law Enforcement, Public officers, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 360

An ACT relating to the payment of money and delivery of intangible personal property belonging to non-resident decedents.

Inheritance and succession

Chapter 361

An ACT to repeal Section 249 of the Code of Virginia.

Repeal of legislation

Chapter 362

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

Amendments, Gambling, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 363

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4234 of the Code of Virginia, relating to enforcement of penalties against insurance companies, and appeal.

Business, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 364

An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Kenbridge, in the County of Lunenburg, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.

Municipal charters, Boundaries, Pensions, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Taxation, Utilities, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Recreation, Public spaces, Business, Amendments, Healthcare, Jails, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Transportation

Chapter 365

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 18, 20, 21, 26, 28, 29, 38, 43 and 113 of the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the definition of certain terms, to the registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, to title certificates, registration certificates and license plates, and to the powers, rights and duties of the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles and of certain other persons with respect to motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, to encumbrances thereon, and to the ownership, transfer, operation and weights thereof, and defining certain offenses.

Transportation

Chapter 366

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2704-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to residence requirements of certain county officers.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 367

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, Section 6 as heretofore amended, and Section 10 of an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the town of Boone Mill, in the County of Franklin, Virginia.”

Municipal charters, Property, Public officers

Chapter 368

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5978-b, to provide for retirement and compensation of judges under certain circumstances.

Judicial, Pensions

Chapter 369

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county adjoining any city within or without this State having a population of more than 125,000, according to the last preceding United States Census, to construct, reconstruct, maintain, alter, improve, add to and operate water supply systems; to acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease or otherwise, water supply system or systems; to furnish water from any such system to any sanitary district, village, town, community, individuals, firm, corporation or partnership; to make such charge for the supply of water herein authorized as the board may from time to time determine upon; to lay a levy for the purpose of raising funds for the construction, maintenance, operation, improvement and reconstruction of any such water system or systems or to appropriate from the general county fund for such purposes; to contract for a loan and to issue bonds for the purpose of construction, acquisition, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance and operation of any such water system on the credit of the county provided that such borrowing power shall not exist, and the loan shall not be contracted for or bonds issued unless and until the action of the board of supervisors determining to construct, maintain and operate or acquire, reconstruct, improve such water system shall be certified to the judge of the circuit court of said county and petitioning the said judge to call an election for the purpose of obtaining the approval of such loan and bond issue by the qualified voters of the county, and prescribing the duties of the judge of the said circuit court of said county; prescribing the duties of the regular election officers, and prescribing the duties and powers of the board of supervisors; and to repeal Chapter 141 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1940, approved March 6, 1940.

Utilities, Public expenditures, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 370

An ACT to establish a system of personnel administration for the Commonwealth, to prescribe with reference to such system the powers and duties of the Governor and other officers and employees of the Commonwealth, to appropriate and provide for the disbursement of funds for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, and to repeal acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

Employment and labor, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 371

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-b of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to substitute trial justices, to provide for appointment of assistant substitute trial justices under certain circumstances.

Judicial, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Chapter 36 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1940, approved March 30, 1940, relating to police departments and police forces in certain counties.

Law Enforcement

Chapter 373

An ACT to transfer certain appropriations to the State Board of Corrections, and to appropriate to the State Board of Corrections certain funds in addition thereto, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of certain acts providing for and relating to the Department of Corrections, and the State Board of Corrections, and to provide for the payment and disbursement of such funds.

Public expenditures, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 374

An ACT for the relief of I. J. Smith.

Charity, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 375

An ACT to authorize housing authorities to undertake the development or administration of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national-defense activities who would not otherwise be able to secure such dwellings within the vicinity thereof

Bonds

Chapter 376

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4987-a as amended, 4987-b as amended, 4987-c, 4987-e, 4987-g as amended, 4987-1 and 4987-m, of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide for the fixing of the salaries of trial justices and their associates, substitutes, clerks, deputy clerks and clerical assistants, by a committee of judges of circuit courts; to provide for the appointment of such committee; to provide that such salaries shall be paid wholly by the State; and to provide for the disposition of fees and fines collected by the trial justices.

Judicial, Salaries, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 377

An ACT to revise and clarify certain provisions of law relating to the registration, taxing and licensing of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, and to arrange such provisions in orderly sequence; to provide a system of registering, taxing and licensing motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers not designed and used for the transportation of passengers, based on the gross weight of such vehicles when loaded; to impose a road tax on the gross receipts of persons operating certain motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers for compensation, under certain conditions and with certain exemptions; to provide a system for the registration of certain motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers not otherwise required by law to be registered in Virginia.

Transportation, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 378

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 109 thereof two new Sections numbered 2726 and 2726-a

Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 379

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1258 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to commission merchants.

Business, Agriculture, Amendments

Chapter 380

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 4, 4-a and 8 of Chapter 335 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, and known, designated and cited as the “Sanitation Districts Law of nineteen hundred and thirty-eight” in relation to the establishment of sanitation districts and the creation thereof as bodies corporate and politic styled as sanitation district commissions, to withdrawals therefrom, and with regard to the corporate powers and duties of such sanitation district commissions. and the management and control thereof, and the exemptions from taxation appertaining thereto.

Amendments, Budget, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 381

An ACT to provide for a temporary addition to the regular cash compensation of State officers and employees, and to prescribe how such additional cash compensation shall be computed and paid; to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act; and to authorize the Governor by executive order to terminate all such payments.

Employment and labor, Public officers, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 382

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to purchase, out of funds apportioned to the Fredericksburg construction district for highway construction purposes, the James Madison Bridge across the Rappahannock River.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 383

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to name any bridge across any stream in any county, town or city and on any State Highway, upon the request of the governing body of such county, town or city, under certain circumstances and upon certain conditions.

Transportation

Chapter 384

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 112, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and therein designated as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, said section relating to trailers and towed vehicles, so as to exempt motorcycles from the requirements of this section, and requiring that a licensed operator shall remain at the controls of the towed vehicle while it is in motion.

Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 385

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 414, as amended, of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the correction of erroneous assessments.

Taxation, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 386

An ACT to provide for the payment of salaries to sheriffs of counties and, with certain exceptions, sergeants of cities, and to their full-time deputies, and for the payment of expenses incurred by such officers: to abolish the fee system as a method of compensating such officers; to provide for payment of the cost of the feeding and clothing of, and medicines and medical attention for, persons confined in jails and on jail farms; to make certain other provisions incident to the abolition of the said fee system; and to repeal certain acts in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Salaries, Law Enforcement, Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 387

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 78 and 79 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, apportioning the State into house and senatorial districts.

Legislative Amendments

Chapter 388

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5790-a, providing how claims to damages for personal injury to infants or insane persons, where death did not ensue, may be compromised.

Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend:and re-enact Chapter 69 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved February 27, 1932, as heretofore amended, conferring certain powers on boards of supervisors of certain counties, so as to confer like powers on boards of supervisors of certain other counties, and to give publicity to ordinances proposed to be enacted under the authority of this act.

Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 390

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 19, 20, 21 of an act entitled "An Act to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency."

Amendments, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Cemeteries

Chapter 391

An ACT to prescribe the respective jurisdiction and authority of the Commission of Fisheries and of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries over the waters of the Rappahannock River.

Fishing

Chapter 392

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of Chapter 385 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, relating to issuing permits and licenses to minors, to drive motor vehicles.

Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Transportation

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4970 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to special prosecuting attorneys, so as to provide for the designation of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for any other county or city, or an attorney at law to act for a Commonwealth’s Attorney who for certain reasons is unable or disqualified to perform the duties of his office, and to authorize the appointment of acting Commonwealth’s Attorneys in certain cases.

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Armed forces, Public officers

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4828, 4829-a (said Section 4829-a being added to the Code of Virginia by Chapter 334 of the Acts of Assembly of 1930) and 4830 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to bail by justices of the peace, police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, civil and police justices, bail commissioners and clerks of courts, so as to enlarge the powers of said officers in admitting persons to bail and to prescribe the powers of trial justices in admitting persons to bail.

Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 395

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 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 6, and 8, as amended, of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, of which the short title is “Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938”, said sections relating, respectively, to definitions, to local boards and to local superintendents and employees.

Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 397

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, designated Section 511l-a, providing that the court may commit persons against whom orders or decrees for support and maintenance are entered to workhouses, city farms, or work squads, under certain conditions.

Amendments, Divorce, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 398

An ACT to repeal Section 17 of Chapter 433, Acts 1928, approved March 26, 1928, relating to the establishment of the insurance rating bureau, which section was added by Chapter 388, Acts 1934.

Repeal of legislation

Chapter 399

An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain cities and counties to provide conditions and procedure under which certain real estate taxes and charges may be compromised and settled.

Taxation

Chapter 400

An ACT to authorize the Governor to execute a certain inter-State compact pursuant to congressional enactments providing for the establishment of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, to provide for the appoint-<br />ment of commissioners to represent the Commonwealth on the said Commission, the Commissioner of Fisheries being designated as one of the same, and to appropriate certain funds for the purposes of this act.

Fishing, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 401

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 238 thereof a new section numbered 5827-a, to prescribe the time within which a suit or action may be brought to subject real estate to the payment of bequests or legacies provided for in the will of any person.

Inheritance and succession

Chapter 402

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 446 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1930, approved March 27, 1930, and designated as the Military Code of Virginia, relating to who shail compose the militia of the State, so as to change the age limits for membership in the militia.

Armed forces, Legislative Amendments