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1944

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Chapter 303

An ACT to provide for the establishment, maintenance and administration of a system of pensions and retirements for the benefit of the personnel of police departments of any county adjoining a county having a population greater than a certain number of inhabitants a square mile.
Pensions, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 11, 12-a and 12-b of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926, as amended, relating to sanitary districts in certain counties, so as to include additional counties within the provisions of the chapter, to permit investments of sinking funds in certain bonds, to authorize bond issues by small districts within any such sanitary district, and to prescribe the rights of certain persons whose property is taken or used for improvements in sanitary districts and to further amend such chapter by adding thereto a new section numbered 3-a conferring additional powers as to such districts on boards of supervisors.
Amendments, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 305

An ACT to authorize the governing body of certain counties to levy assessments upon property owners in sanitary districts in such counties for the cost of certain public improvements, to prescribe procedure for the assessment and collection of the costs so assessed, and to confer certain powers upon the governing bodies of such counties in connection with the improvements and the assessments so made.
Public expenditures, Utilities, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 306

An ACT to provide for the appointment of general registrars for certain counties and to prescribe the duties of such general registrars.
Voting, Public officers

Chapter 307

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as amended, of Chapter 527 of the Acts of Assembly of 1891-92, approved March 1, 1892, which provided a charter for the Town of Gate City (formerly Estillville), in the County of Scott, Section 11 relating to levying taxes.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 308

An ACT to provide a new Charter for the Town of McKenney, in the County of Dinwiddie, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Utilities, Vagrancy, Incorporation, Segregation

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 58 of Chapter 34 of the Acts of 1918, entitled “An act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 13, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk.”, approved the 7th day of February, 1918, relating to the Department of Public Welfare of the city of Norfolk.
Amendments, Charity, Healthcare, Recreation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 79 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved February 25, 1922, which provided an additional corporation court for the City of Norfolk, the section relating to the title of the court and related matters.
Judicial

Chapter 311

An ACT to amend Article 2 of an act entitled 'An Act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City County.'
Municipal charters, Budget, Taxation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 32 of Chapter 288 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, which provides a new charter for the town of Salem, the section relating to appropriation ordinance and levy; and to repeal Section 28 of that chapter, which section relates to an annual budget.
Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 313

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 56 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the location of cemeteries, to provide that the prohibitions and restrictions as to location or establishment of cemeteries shall not apply to the Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg nor to any residence in Norfolk County separated from the proposed cemetery by a State highway, river, creek, tributary branch or marsh lands, if such residence is not less than two hundred fifty feet therefrom at its closest point.
Cemeteries, Property, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 351 of the Code of Virginia (as it amended former Section 360 of the Code), relating to The Library Board, appointment, terms, certain powers and duties, and so forth.
Libraries, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 350 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 31, 1942, providing for State aid in the development of public library services, so as to authorize the State Library Board to grant from appropriations made for this purpose funds for aiding certain libraries and library systems, peroutarly in 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 funds appropriated for such State aid.
Education, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 316

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 653-a 2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school districts and special school districts, and school boards.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 317

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1887-h of the Code of Virginia relating to Division of Mines, and to duties of the mine inspector as inspector of weights and measures for certain purposes.
Amendments, Industry, Labor, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 319

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section
Taxation, Property

Chapter 320

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2698-a relating to surety bonds of public officials.
Bonds, Judicial, Property, Public officers

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3457, 3458, 3459, 3460, 3461, and 3462 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to compensation of certain officers and employees of the General Assembly ; and to repeal Chapter 196 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 14, 1928, relating to the same subject.
Amendments, Public officers, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4676 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to keeping gaming tables, et cetera, and for forfeiture thereof, to provide that the court may award certain tables and other paraphernalia to charitable organizations or war recreation centers.
Gambling, Charity, Amendments, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4902, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, providing when juries shall not be kept together, and when and under what conditions they may be permitted to separate.
Judicial, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4928 and 6007 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the pay and mileage of jurors.
Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 326

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-f 1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of trial justices.
Judicial, Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-m, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees taxable by trial justices, so as to provide for taxing Commonwealth’s attorney’s fees in criminal and juvenile and domestic relations cases.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4895 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to venire facias in felony cases and trial of persons jointly indicted for a felony.
Judicial, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5167 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to deeds of trust.
Amendments, Debt, Property, Business

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5276 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to renunciation of wills and its effect, so as to conform to Section 5273 as to adopted children.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 331

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

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5866 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to terms and sessions of the Supreme Court of Appeals, to eliminate the holding of sessions at one of the places now fixed by law, and to provide when this act shall become effective.
Judicial

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5904-a, and Sections 5904-c, 5904-e, and 5904-f, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the county court in certain counties.
Judicial, Employment and labor, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 334

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6543 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when homestead exemption may be set apart.
Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 335

An ACT to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, who may act through the State Entomologist, to inspect, treat, remove or destroy trees having Dutch elm disease, which is declared to be a public nuisance; to make it the duty of the owner of the land on which such diseased trees are found to treat or to destroy them; to make it a misdemeanor for any person to interfere with or hinder the persons making such inspection, or treating, removing or destroying the diseased trees; and to require the owner thereof to pay the expense of their removal, treatment or destruction, and to provide for appeal from orders of officer.
Agriculture, Alcohol, Public expenditures

Chapter 337

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to classification for purposes of advisory compensation of sheriffs and sergeants, to make certain change or changes.
Law Enforcement, Salaries

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to the payment of salaries of 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, etc., so as to provide for mileage to police officers in certain counties when the police officer acts in place of the sheriff.
Law Enforcement, Salaries, Budget

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to classification for purposes of advisory compensation of sheriffs and sergeants, so as to make certain change or changes.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Salaries, Employment and labor

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 4, 11 and 13, as amended, of Chapter 214 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 19, 1926, relating to the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and other State farms, so as to permit persons confined in local jails to be transferred to and maintained at such farm or farms, to provide a per diem allowance for certain prisoners confined at State farms, and to prescribe the daily per capita allowance for maintaining prisoners at the State Farm for Defective Misdemeanants and other State farms.
Amendments, Jails, Prisons, Labor, Public expenditures, Debt

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 49, Acts 1932, entitled “An act to provide quarters for veterans’ organizations.”
Armed forces

Chapter 342

An ACT to authorize the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Delegates, with the approval of the Attorney General, to enter into a contract on behalf of the Commonwealth with Charles F. Thompson or his assigns with respect to the voting machine systems of the House of Delegates and the Senate, and the machines, tools, dies, and other property used in the construction and building thereof.
Voting

Chapter 343

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 395 of the Code of Virginia
Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend Chapter 325 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1942, approved March 31, 1942, relating to the establishment of a contributory retirement system for certain State employees and for public school teachers and certain other employees of local public school boards, by inserting a new section numbered 24-a, providing for the voluntary participation in such system of such political subdivisions of the Commonwealth as shall elect to have their employees covered by such system, the expense on account thereof being’ paid by the political subdivisions so electing.
Pensions, Employment and labor, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1579 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the fees of local registrars of vital statistics.
Public expenditures, Healthcare, Registration of births, etc.

Chapter 346

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 10, 13 as amended, 23, 33, 40 43 as amended, 53 and 71 of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, short title of which is “Virginia Public ‘Assistance Act of 1938” to allow reciprocal interstate agreements regarding residence of applicants, to give the local welfare boards complete discretion in the determination of awards, to simplify the procedures regarding fair hearings and to change the short title.
Healthcare

Chapter 347

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

Chapter 348

An ACT to provide for the trapping and shooting of foxes in certain named county or counties and for penalties for violation of certain provisions thereof; and to repeal Chapter 202, Acts 1920, approved March 16, 1920, and all acts amendatory thereof.
Hunting

Chapter 349

An ACT to repeal Chapter 167 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved March 9, 1940, and all acts amendatory of same or any section or sections thereof, relating to boards of supervisors of the counties of Alleghany, Botetourt and Highland fixing open and closed seasons for hunting and trapping foxes and bear.
Hunting

Chapter 350

An ACT to repeal Chapter 43 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved February 26, 1926, relating to fishing in Alleghany and Craig counties and all amendments thereto.
Fishing, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 351

An ACT to repeal Chapter 175 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved March 12, 1940, relating to gigging certain non-game fish in the waters of Clinch River and Russell County.
Fishing

Chapter 352

An ACT to repeal Chapter 77 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, relating to foxes in Shenandoah County.
Hunting

Chapter 353

An ACT to repeal Chapter 319 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 26, 1936, relating to dogs chasing or tracking deer in certain counties.
Hunting

Chapter 354

An ACT to make it lawful to trap, hunt and kill mink and foxes at any time in certain county or counties.
Hunting

Chapter 355

An ACT authorizing the killing of deer found to be damaging crops in certain counties.
Hunting

Chapter 356

An ACT for the relief of H. Elmer Kiser.
Hunting, Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 357

An ACT to require a special license to hunt deer or bear in Wise and Buchanan counties, and to provide that fees collected for the license shall be used for the payment of damages to crops and livestock by deer or bear in the several counties.
Hunting, Wildlife, Agriculture

Chapter 358

An ACT to prescribe a continuous open season for the hunting and shooting of foxes in Wythe, Washington and Scott counties.
Hunting

Chapter 359

An ACT to amend the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, by adding one new section numbered 36-b, relating to killing or attempting to kill deer at night, and providing for certain forfeitures of property under certain circumstances.
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 360

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 36 and 37 as amended, and 40 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, approved March 24, 1930, relating respectively to hunting, trapping and fishing, and fixing certain season and bag limits.
Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 361

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 40 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to bass fishing in Virginia.
Fishing

Chapter 362

An ACT to amend Section 19 of an Act designated as Chapter 33 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1927, as amended by Chapter 390 of the Acts of 1942, so as to clarify the respective powers of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Executive Director of said Commission.
Amendments, Public officers, Wildlife

Chapter 363

An ACT to authorize and empower the Governor to execute in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia a deed conveying, subject to the jurisdictional and other limitations and reservations contained in Section 19-a and Section 19-b of the Code of Virginia, to the United States of America, six parcels of vacant and unappropriated land containing a total of two hundred and thirteen and eight-tenths acres situate in Bedford and Botetourt Counties.
Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 364

An ACT to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission to use for repurchase from the United States the lands formerly a part of the Seashore State Park such sum as may be received from the United States as a result of the condemnation of certain lands in the Seashore State Park for use as a part of Fort Story, in Princess Anne County, Virginia, and to appropriate to said Commission, to be used for such purposes, any moneys received for said lands so condemned.
Public spaces, Property, Wildlife

Chapter 365

An ACT to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission to accept from the Trustees of the Slemp Foundation, created by the will of the late C. Bascom Slemp, a collection of books, printings, and museum pieces, to be known as the “Southwest Virginia Museum”; to operate the same with funds donated by the said Trustees, or others, for that purpose; to enter into agreements with the State Library Board for joint operation of said museum and a public library, and to appropriate money for the purchase of a building in which to house said museum and carry on said activities.
Education, Public expenditures, Charity, Public spaces, Libraries

Chapter 366

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3775-a, 3775-b, 3775-g, and 3775-h of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal Sections 3775-c, 3775-d, and 3775-£ relating to the regulation of airports and aircraft and the Federal licensing of aircraft and airmen and operation of nonresidents of aircraft for hire, and to add new sections 3775-w, 3775-x, and 3775-y to provide for license for airports and fee; for the regulation of rates, fees and charges for use of airports, and the disposition of fees under this act.
Transportation

Chapter 367

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3809; 3810 as amended (as Section 3810 and two new sections numbered 3810-a and 3810-b); 3811 as amended; 3822 as amended (as Section 3822 and a new section numbered 3822-a); 3830; 3836; 3851 as amended; 3857 as amended; 3857-a (by transposing part of Section 3857 as being amended into Section 3857-a); 3859; 3866 (as Section 3866 and a new section numbered 3866-a); and 3868, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain kinds of domestic corporations, so as to make explicit therein, in order to avoid confusion, certain amendments indirectly effected by Section 3 (c) of Chapter 33, Acts 1927, approved April 18, 1927, commonly known as the Reorganization of Government Act, as it was amended by Chapter 71, Acts 1930, approved February 27, 1930, which acts transferred certain duties and functions theretofore imposed upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the State Corporation Commission: so as, for future convenience, to subdivide Section 3810 into three sections (the two additional being numbered 3810-a and 3810-b); Section 3822 into two sections (the additional section being numbered 3822-a); Section 3866 into two sections (the additional section being numbered 3866-a): so as to transpose a portion of Section 3857 as being amended to Section 3857-a: and so as to make other purely verbal, formal, and conforming changes for purposes of clarification, brevity, or convenience.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Property, Utilities

Chapter 368

An ACT to authorize and regulate the use of trust receipts and pledges of personal property unaccompanied by possession in the pledgee, and to enact a law with respect thereto which shall be uniform with those of other States.
Business, Property, Debt, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 369

An ACT to authorize the establishment and maintenance by banks of separate trust funds for the collective investment of funds held in a fiduciary capacity; to be known as “Common Trust Funds’, and to provide how such funds shall be established and administered.
Business

Chapter 370

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new title numbered 37A, entitled "Loan and Financing Organizations", and a new chapter therein numbered 166A 1, entitled "Virginia Small Loan Law", consisting of sixty-one new sections, numbered 4168-a 1 through 4168-a 61, to provide for the regulation of the business of making loans not in excess of a certain small amount...
Business, Debt

Chapter 371

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thence a new section numbered 4219-a, protecting the rights, title, interests and property of beneficiaries under certain policies of life insurance and supplemental contracts.
Amendments, Property, Debt

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4227-b of the Code of Virginia, relating to forms of policies to be used in writing certain kinds of insurance, and to penalties for violation of the provisions thereof, to make certain changes in the authority of the State Corporation Commission relative to use of certain standard forms, and to revise the section generally and to amend an act entitled an act to authorize and regulate the exchange of certain classes of reciprocal and inter-insurance contracts among individuals, partnerships and corporations, empowering corporations generally to make such contracts, regulating process in suits on such contracts, and prescribing certain fees, taxes and licenses, and penalty for violation, approved March 20, 1918, as last amended by an act approved March 29, 1934, by adding thereto a new section numbered 12 giving the State Corporation Commission certain authority relative to the establishment of standard forms of policies to be used by reciprocal or inter-insurance exchanges in writing certain kinds of insurance, and to penalties for violation of the provisions thereof.
Business

Chapter 373

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4258-h, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, defining group life insurance.
Employment and labor, Business, Public officers

Chapter 374

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as amended, of Chapter 129 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 9, 1936, known as the Motor Vehicle Carriers Act, relating to certain exemptions from operation of act.
Transportation, Education, Agriculture, Business, Public officers

Chapter 375

An ACT requiring certain corporations and companies of other states to appoint the Secretary of the Commonwealth its attorney for certain purposes, to provide that transacting certain business or soliciting, making or delivering certain contracts in Virginia shall be deemed to be an appointment oi the Secretary of the Commonwealth as attorney for certain purposes, and to prescribe the duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth when notice or process is served upon him in such cases and the effect of such service.
Business, Incorporation, Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 376

An ACT to require and to provide for the effectuation and maintenance of certain public liability and property damage insurance on vehicles engaging in transportation of school pupils and personnel to and from schools.
Transportation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 377

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 377 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, relating to the support and maintenance of public free schools, the apportionment of State appropriations among the counties and cities, the groups of pupils in average daily attendance, and the number of teacher units, to provide how the same shall be handled during the present war emergency, and to make an appropriation therefor.
Education

Chapter 378

An ACT to authorize the Medical College of Virginia to issue and sell certificates of indebtedness to meet certain existing indebtedness, to prescribe how such certificates shall be secured, issued, sold, or otherwise disposed of, and to provide a sinking fund to retire such certificates at maturity,
Budget, Business, Education, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 379

To authorize the sale, lease or rental of the timber or mineral rights of certain property owned by the State Teachers College at Radford.
Education, Property, Budget, Business

Chapter 380

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation land, easements, rights of way or ether interest in land adjacent to or near land needed for any highway project and to convey the same to public utility companies to be used by them in lieu of other land, easements, rights of way or other interest in land owned by them but needed for such highway project; to give the State Highway Commissioner certain powers with respect to such property.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 381

An ACT to amend Chapter 380 of the Acts of the Assembly of 1940, as amended, relating to the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the State Highway Commissioner, so as to add a new section thereto, designated as Section 7, providing certain remedies to landowners whose property has been entered upon by the State Highway Commissioner under Section 4 and Section 6 of Chapter 380 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, as amended.
Property, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 382

An ACT to authorize and empower the city of Norfolk to make or cause to be made surveys, borings, studies, estimates and other necessary preliminary investigations, including the preparation of plans and specifications, to determine the practicability and feasibility of constructing a tunnel or tunnels under the Elizabeth River, or any of its branches, and/or a bridge or bridges over the Elizabeth River or any of its branches, to provide a vehicular connection between the city of Norfolk and the city of Portsmouth, and to appropriate the necessary funds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $100,000
Transportation

Chapter 383

An ACT for the relief of George P. Browning et als.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 384

An ACT to regulate the operation in certain respects of certain automotive vehicles under certain circumstances with a view to promotion of the greater safety of life, limb and property: and to such end, to provide for the administration and enforcement of the provisions thereof; to confer certain powers and to impose certain duties upon certain public officials and agencies ; to provide for the suspension and revocation of licenses, registrations and license plates under certain circumstances; to provide for the making of rules and regulations by certain public officials and agencies within the guiding principles prescribed thereby in connection with the administration and enforcement thereof; to provide for furnishing of certain security under certain circumstances on the part of persons involved in automotive vehicle accidents ; to provide for furnishing proof of financial responsibility as to the future under certain circumstances on the part of persons involved in automotive vehicle accidents; to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which requisite security or proof may be supplied by bond, deposit or insurance policies ; to provide for assignment of risks amongst insurance carriers under certain circumstances ; to prescribe certain penalties; to repeal expressly certain specified act or acts: to repeal generally all inconsistent acts or parts of acts; to make certain appropriations ; and to prescribe certain effective date or dates.
Transportation, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 385

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 18 as amended, 25 and 28 as amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, known as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia”
Amendments, Armed forces, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 386

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5, as amended, of Chap 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, and designated as the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act, relating to persons to whom a license shall not be issued.
Amendments, Business, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Judicial, Voting, Transportation

Chapter 387

An ACT to amend Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, known as The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, by adding a new section numbered 2l-a, relating to license plates for motor vehicles.
Amendments, Transportation

Chapter 388

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 79 of the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia concerning the use of highways and streets by pedestrians and permitting cities of more than sixty-five thousand population to adopt ordinances regulating the use of certain highways and streets by pedestrians.
Transportation, Public spaces, Recreation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 84 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 390

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 89 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to compensation of members of electoral boards.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 98 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to duties of registrars and their pay.
Voting, Registration of births, etc., Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 392

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 107 of the Code of Virginia, providing how the registration books of election precincts may be purged.
Amendments, Voting

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 108-c, relating to registration of voters in certain cites.
Voting, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 144 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to increasing, diminishing and abolishing voting districts.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Boundaries, Public officers

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 154 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to filing notice of candidacy in elections, so as to clarify the provisions of the section with respect to party nominations.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 203 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to absent voters.
Voting

Chapter 397

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to different rates of levy on certain kinds of property, so as to authorize the governing bodies of counties to make certain other classification of certain kinds of property and to impose different rates of levy thereon.
Taxation, Agriculture, Business

Chapter 398

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 24 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the definition of gross income.
Taxation, Armed forces, Inheritance and succession, Employment and labor

Chapter 399

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 23, 39 and 40 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to income taxes.
Taxation

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 69-a so as to validate certain judgments rendered upon pleadings which failed to contain certain allegations as to the assessment for taxation, of the bonds, notes, and other evidences of debts sued on; and to protect the title to lands sold under deeds of trust, where the holder of the notes secured by
Taxation

Chapter 401

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 242-a, prescribing how real estate assessments may be changed in counties where general reassessments are not made.
Taxation

Chapter 402

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 344 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to boards of equalization of real estate assessments.
Taxation, Public officers, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 403

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 372, as amended, of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to when taxes and levies may be paid without penalty, and other related matters.
Taxation

Chapter 404

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 as amended, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15-a as amended, of Chapter 431, Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, relating to the establishment of a State Registration Board for Contractors, defining its powers and duties, providing for certificates of registration, fees, distribution of moneys, suspension and cancellation of certificates, prescribing punishment for violations, all as to the conduct of the business of contracting, in order to make certain changes in the scope and applicability of certain provisions of the act.
Business, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 405

An ACT to permit members of the governing body of certain counties
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Public officers, Charity
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