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1950

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Chapter 301

AN ACT to provide for the installation in the circuit court clerk's office of each county a book to be provided by the Department of Highways and known as “State Highway Plat Book’, provide for the clerk’s fee for filing highway plats therein iad not to mention the numbers of the State Highway Plat Book and page wherein such plats are filed; and validating plats heretofore filed.
Transportation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 302

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 22-175 of the Code of 1950 relating to bond issues for construction of public school buildings.
Bonds, Budget, Education

Chapter 303

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-407, of the Code of 1950 relating to signs at railway crossings so as to change the form required.
Transportation, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 304

An Act to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 13-96.1 so as to permit the use of facsimile signatures and seal on bonds and debentures issued by a corporation.
Amendments, Bonds, Business

Chapter 305

AN ACT to authorize the Director of Conservation and Development, with the approval of the Governor, to convey to the United States certain lands or interests therein, within or appurtenant to Fairy Stone State Park.
Public spaces, Transportation, Pensions, Property, Utilities

Chapter 306

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 59-101.1, prohibiting the use of the word “cord” to denote other than standard cords in connection with purchases or sales of certain forest products, and regulating the use of other units of measurement in connection with such purchases or sales.
Business

Chapter 307

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-827 of the Code of 1950, relating to maximum permissive height for vehicles.
Transportation

Chapter 308

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-282 of the Code of 1950, relating to definition of public utility so as to broaden the
Utilities

Chapter 309

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Treasurer of the State of Virginia to pay unused amounts of a special bear and deer stamp to the treasurer of certain counties for deposit in a special fund subject to the order of the local governing body of the county, less deduction of a percentage of the gross amount on account of costs of administering this fund, for the benefit of wild life in the county.
Wildlife, Hunting, Public expenditures

Chapter 310

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 § 7-21 and § 7-25 of the Code of Virginia of 1950, to the United States of America, a certain parcel of land located at Dam Neck Mills, Princess Anne County, Virginia.
Property, Public officers, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 311

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 18-160 of the Code of 1950, relating to burglary and punishment therefor.
Amendments, Armed forces, Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 312

An Act to permit the use of standard cattle guards along secondary highways in certain counties.
Agriculture

Chapter 313

AN ACT to amend § 82-3387 of the Code of 1950 and to reenact same in the form of four sections, with amendments, numbered 32-837, 32-887.1, 32-887.2 and 32-8337.3, to provide for the issuance of a short form of birth certificate and imposing limitations on the issuance of full birth certificates.
Death and burial, Healthcare, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 314

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 22-151.1 providing that the governing bodies of certain counties at the request of the county school board may provide for the construction and maintenance of school buildings and maintenance of school buses by the Department of Public Works of such county; and validating certain acts of the governing bodies of such counties.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 315

AN ACT to provide the effect of certain references in statutes
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 316

AN ACT to authorize the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia to grant and convey, in exchange for such consideration and under such terms and conditions as the Board of Visitors may determine, certain property now owned by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, and to provide for an emergency.
Property, Education, Public officers

Chapter 317

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-900 of the Code of 1950, relating to municipal planning and planning commissions.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 318

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 15-824 and 15-825 of the Code relating to appointment of zoning commissions and boards of zoning appeals.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 319

AN ACT to provide that certain counties shall require water companies laying pipes or mains on highway rights of way to furnish water supply and hydrant connections adequate for fire protection.
Utilities, Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 320

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-64 of the Code of 1950 relating to pay of commissioners to rearrange magisterial districts.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 321

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 22-67 of the Code of 1950, relating to compensation of members of school boards so as to increase the same in certain counties.
Education, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 322

An Act providing for the acquisition, construction, improvement, operation and maintenance of a turnpike to facilitate vehicular traffic between Virginia Beach and points on the coast of North Carolina; creating for said purpose the Coastal Turnpike Authority; conferring powers and imposing duties on said Authority; authorizing the issuance by said Authority of turnpike revenue bonds of said Authority, payable solely from earnings of said turnpike, to pay the cost of said turnpike and improvements thereof; providing that no debt of said Authority, of the State of Virginia, or of any county, city, district, or political subdivision thereof, shall be incurred in the exercise of any of the powers granted by this Act; providing for the collection of tolls for the payment of said bonds and for the cost of maintenance, operation and repair of said turnpike; providing for the execution of a trust indenture; to secure the payment of said bonds without mortgaging or encumbering said turnpike; authorizing the issuance of revenue refunding bonds; prescribing conditions upon which said turnpike shall become free from tolls; making such turnpike and such bonds exempt from taxation; providing for condemnation; and prohibiting, under certain conditions, the construction or maintenance of competing means of transit between Virginia Beach and points on the coast of North Carolina.
Transportation, Utilities, Taxation

Chapter 323

AN ACT to provide a charter for the city of Falls Church, and to repeal Chapter 878 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946 entitled “‘An Act to provide a new charter for the Town of Falls Church in the county of Fairfax’’, as amended.
Incorporation, Boundaries, Budget, Business, Voting, Wards, Charity, Education, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments, Pensions, Civil Rights, Cemeteries, Marriage, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 324

AN ACT providing for the formation of nonprofit corporations to be known as Telephone Cooperatives, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the fullest possible use of telephone service in this State by making such service available at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and prudent management of such cooperatives; prescribing the rights, powers and duties of such cooperatives; authorizing and regulating the issuance of bonds and other obligations by such cooperatives, and providing for the payment of such obligations and the rights of the holders thereof; and providing when the State Corporation Commission may require public telephone companies to make telephone service available to communities not now served.
Business, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 325

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Chapter 189 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 15, 1946, which is continued in force by § 58-769 of the Code of 1950 the sections and chapter relating to real estate assessments in certain counties, so as to make changes in the board charged therewith and to transfer certain duties.
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 326

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 58-1118, 58-1130, 58-1131 and 58-1132 of the Code of 1950 relating to correction of erroneous assessments of State tares and computation of time so as to extend the period for correction thereof.
Taxation

Chapter 327

AN ACT to require public utilities to secure certificates of convenience and necessity in certain cases and to prescribe the powers of the State Corporation Commission in that regard.
Utilities, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 328

AN ACT for the relief of O. R. Williams.
Prisons, Judicial, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 329

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 35-62.1 authorizing the governing bodies of certain counties to impose a license tax upon certain trailers and, so as to enforce the same, to require certain reports and provide penalties for violation.
Taxation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 330

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 32-293.1 and 32-294 of the Code relating to contracts for hospitalization of the medically indigent and eligibility for such hospitalization.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity

Chapter 331

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 1 and 4 of Chapter 177 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 11, 1942, and continued in effect by § 15-705 of the Code of 1950, so as to enlarge the class of counties affected.
Public spaces, Recreation, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 332

AN ACT to provide for the admissibility in evidence of certain photostatic or photographic reproductions, and the effect thereof.
Business, Judicial

Chapter 333

AN ACT for the relief of Patricia D. Parrott
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 334

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 64-173 of the Code of 1950 relating to when purchasers of real estate not subject to certain claims so as to provide when certain claims shall not be allowed; and to validate certain conveyances.
Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 335

AN ACT to establish and continue the Commission on Veterans’ Affairs; to provide for the appointment of members thereof; to prescribe its powers and duties; and to make appropriation
Armed forces, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 336

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 Confederate cemeteries and graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors not otherwise cared for in cemeteries, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors.
Confederate, Cemeteries, Monuments and memorials, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 337

AN ACT for the relief of the Commercial Credit Corporation.
Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 338

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-78 of the Code of 1950, relating to flight, pursuit, and arrest of an accused, so as to extend the section to cover certain additional situations.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 339

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-61 of the Code of 1950, relating to desertion and nonsupport, so as to raise the amount of forfeiture in such cases.
Divorce, Custody of children, Employment and labor

Chapter 340

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-123 of the Code of 1950 relating to fees charged by clerks of courts.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Marriage, Divorce, Taxation, Employment and labor

Chapter 341

AN ACT to provide the regular terms of the circutt court of Dickenson county; and to repeal acts in conflict therewith.
Judicial

Chapter 342

AN ACT to authorize the governing bodies of counties to prohibit the possession, sale, storage, or use of certain fireworks, and to provide penalties for violations,
Amendments, Amusement, Public officers

Chapter 343

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-52 of the Code of 1950, relating to exemptions from license requirements for hunting, fishing and trapping so as to extend such exemptions.
Hunting, Fishing, Property

Chapter 344

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-67.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to service on Commissioner of Motor Vehicles as agent of nonresident motor vehicle operator.
Transportation, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 345

AN ACT to amend and reenact Section 46-155 of the Code of 1950 relating to fecs imposed on certain motor vehicles.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 346

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-165 of the Code of 1950 relating to the time an indictment for a felony must be tried.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 347

An Act to repeal Chapter 509 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, provisions for killing deer in the county of
Hunting, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 348

An Act to amend the charter of the city of South Norfolk, relating to the issuance of bonds and creating a sinking fund.
Bonds, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 349

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 63-119 of the Code of 1950 relating to old age assistance grants.
Public expenditures, Healthcare, Charity

Chapter 350

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-168 of the Code of 1950 to empower the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue appropriately designated tags for certain motor vehicles.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 351

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-160 of the Code of 1950 as to empower the Commissioner to issue appropriately designated tags for certain vehicles.
Transportation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 352

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-138 of the Code of 1950 to place upon the State Corporation Commission the duty of furnishing appropriately designated tags or markers for property-carrying vehicles for hire, and relieving the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles of the responsibility of so doing.
Transportation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 353

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a new section numbered 68-856.1 to provide for the adoption by a spouse of a natural parent of infant children without going through all the details of procedure.
Marriage, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 354

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-52 of the Code of 1950 relating to exemptions from hunting, fishing and trapping license requirements.
Hunting, Fishing

Chapter 355

AN ACT for the relief of J. W. Huff.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 356

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-47 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, to require any proposed toll road or turnpike company to obtain from the State Highway Commission a certificate of approval certifying that its operation will not injure the State highway system.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 357

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 56-834 of the Code of 1950, relating to the enforcement of laws governing operation of motor vehicle carriers.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 358

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 57-5 of the Code of 1950 which continued in force certain statutes applicable to R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, as to impose certain duties upon the Director of the Division of the Budget.
Confederate, Amendments, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 359

AN ACT to authorize the Treasurer to dispose of certain obligations and property and to prescribe how the proceeds therefrom shall be deposited and held.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 360

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 16-70 of the Code of 1950, relating to attachment proceedings in trial justice courts so as to dispense with orders of publication and publication thereunder.
Amendments, Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 361

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 68-878 of the Code of 1950, relating to transfer of juveniles from industrial schools to the Virginia Industrial Farm for Women.
Children -- Institutional care, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 362

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-121 of the Code of 1950, relating to merger of decrees for divorce from bed and board with decree for divorce from bond of matrimony.
Divorce

Chapter 363

An Act to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 58-10.1, so as to classify for purposes of taxation certain activities to which admission is charged.
Taxation, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 364

AN ACT to provide for the reduction and elimination of occupational disease, and to this end to confer certain powers upon the State Health Commissioner concerning the inspection of certain establishments, the making of tests and taking of samples, and to recommend certain practices.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 365

AN ACT to amend chapter 14 of Title 13 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 18-247.1, relating to the taxation of cooperative associations, societies, companies and exchanges, and cooperative marketing associations and corporations.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 366

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-66 of the Code of 1950, relating to salary of attorneys for the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Salaries, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 367

AN ACT to repeal § 28-90.1 of the Code of 1950 prohibiting tak-
Fishing

Chapter 368

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 46-447.1, providing under what circumstances persons involved in motor vehicle accidents shall not be required to file proof of financial responsibility.
Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 369

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-266 of the Code of 1950 relating to when copies of certain records may be admitted in evidence.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 370

AN ACT to validate general reassessments of real estate in certain counties for the year 1948.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 371

AN ACT to require local boards of public welfare to furnish certain information to the governing bodies of their counties and cities; to prescribe the terms and conditions under which such information shall be furnished; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 372

AN ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Blacksburg in the County of Montgomery, and to repeal the existing charter of the Town, and all former charters and amendments thereto.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Utilities, Public spaces, Healthcare, Recreation, Cemeteries

Chapter 373

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 58-14 and 58-16 of the Code of 1950, relating to certain property exempt from State and local taxation and assessment thereof.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures, Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 374

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-28 of the Code of 1950, so as to provide that the State shall pay coroner’s fees in certain cases.
Coroner, Healthcare, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 375

AN ACT to add a section numbered 58-626.1 to the Code of 1950 so as to define the expression “certificated motor vehicle carrier” as used in Article 11 of Chapter 12 of Title 58.
Transportation

Chapter 376

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-158 of the Code of 1950, relating to classification of beneficiaries for inheritance taxes.
Inheritance and succession, Taxation

Chapter 377

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-202 of the Code of 1950, relating to compensation for property destroyed by dogs.
Property

Chapter 378

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-306 of the Code of 1950, relating to amount of tax on wholesale merchants, to add language inadvertently omitted.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 379

An ACT to amend and reenact § 22-277 of the 1950 Code pertaining to the collection of certain tolls.
Transportation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 380

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2-132 of the Code of 1950 relating to Auditor of Public Accounts so as to impose certain duties upon him and State agencies.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 381

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-288 of the Code of 1950, relating to testimony of husband and wife in criminal cases.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Marriage, Judicial

Chapter 382

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-828 of the Code of 1950 relating to maximum permissible length of certain vehicles and combinations of vehicles.
Transportation

Chapter 383

An Act to provide a State-wide system of juvenile and domestic relations courts with probation officers and juvenile detention facilities, to define their powers and duties and to repeal §§ 116-130-172, inclusive; §§ 63-257 through 63-288 inclusive; §§ 63-294 through 63-307 inclusive of the Code of 1950.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 384

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 46-264 and 46-317 of the Code of 1950, relating, respectively, to requirements for lighting equipment and for inspection, so as to exempt certain vehicles therefrom.
Transportation

Chapter 385

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-210 of the Code of 1950, relating to the penalty for reckless driving.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 386

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2-188 of the Code of 1950 relating to performance of services for counties and cities by Auditor of Public Accounts so as to provide for central system of accounts and accounting.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 387

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-45 of the Code of 1950 relating to exemptions of certain vehicles used for agricultural purposes from requirements applicable to motor vehicles generally, and the conditions of such exemptions.
Agriculture

Chapter 388

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 15-862, 15-870, 15-872, 15-878, and 15-874 of the Code of 1950, relating to the county board form of organization and government, so as to permit the adoption of such form by any county in the State, to define and limit certain duties of the county executive secretary, to prescribe the compensation of certain county officers, to provide alternate methods of furnishing certain health service and to prescribe the composition of the county board of public welfare, and to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 15-882.1, to permit the creation of the office of general registrar in counties adopting such form of organization and government.
Amendments, Business, Education, Healthcare, Public officers, Registration of births, etc., Voting

Chapter 389

AN ACT to validate a lease entered into by the Director of the Department of Welfare and Institutions with Junius D. Updyke on the 22nd day of August, 1949.
Employment and labor, Prisons, Amendments

Chapter 390

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 46-261 and 46-262 of the Code of 1950, relating to signals when vehicles disabled, so as to permit the use of red reflector flares in lieu of lanterns in certain cases.
Transportation

Chapter 391

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 46-297 and 46-298 of the Code of 1950, relating to safety glass in motor vehicles, so as to permit ‘the use of certain other safety glazing materials under certain conditions.
Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 392

An Act to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 29-184.1, authorizing the governing bodies of certain counties to increase license taxes on dogs therein.
Amendments, Taxation

Chapter 393

AN ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain cities to appoint a board of assessors; to provide for the annual assessment of property in such cities; and the manner by which relief from assessments so made may be had, and to provide for an emergency.
Taxation, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 394

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 6-284 of the Code of 1950, relating to annual license taxes on credit unions.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 395

AN ACT to provide for the participation by the Commonwealth of Virginia in the commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia, to create a commission to supervise and carry out such participation, to define the duties and powers of such commission, and to appropriate funds to defray the expenses of the commission and the cost of such participation.
Public expenditures

Chapter 396

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 59-20 and 59-40 of the Code of 1950, relating to the prevention of trusts, combinations and monopolies wnimical to the public welfare; defining same and to repeal § 59-80 of the Code of 1950 so as to remove certain exemptions.
Business, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 397

AN ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Amherst; and to repeal the existing charter and amendments
Municipal charters, Taxation, Budget, Public officers, Utilities, Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 398

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 15-798, 15-808 and 15-814 of the Code of 1950, relating to vacation of certain plats, so as to provide that the methods of vacation therein provided for shall not be exclusive.
Property

Chapter 399

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 26-59 of the Code of 1950, relating to when a nonresident fiduciary must have a resident cofiduciary.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Noncitizens

Chapter 400

AN ACT to repeal §§ 38-156, 33-157 and 83-158 of the Code of 1950, relating to the discontinuance of certain roads or landings and appeals to the Circuit Court in connection therewith.
Repeal of legislation, Transportation
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