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1952

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Chapter 602

An Act to authorize the governing bodies of the several counties to adopt ordinances prohibiting certain persons from parking in the streets and highways, and to provide a penalty.
Transportation

Chapter 603

An Act to amend and reenact § 65-42 of the Code of Virginia, relating to definitions of occupational diseases.
Employment and labor

Chapter 604

An Act to amend Chapter 180 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 9, 1942, relating to the creation of the Elizabeth River Tunnel District, by adding thereto a section numbered 18-a, so as to authorize the forming of certain agreements and to ratify certain ll ae
Transportation

Chapter 605

An Act to amend and reenact § 27-65 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the definition of “public building’ under Fire Hazards Law.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 606

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 22-166.2 and 22-166.8 of the Code of Virginia, relating to duties of State Board of Education in relation to preparation of plans, specifications and sketches for school construction so as to impose additional duties in relation thereto upon the Board; to require certain conferences; and to provide for the membership of a research committee; and to appropriate ha 3)
Education

Chapter 607

An Act to provide a new charter for the Town of Coeburn, in the county of Wise; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present Council and Government while in office, inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts, in conflict with this act.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Utilities, Public officers, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Education, Cemeteries, Labor, Business, Children -- Institutional care, Amusement, Transportation, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Pensions

Chapter 608

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 29 new sections numbered 29-2.1, 29-84.1, 29-84.2, 29-114.1 and 29-189.1, relating to the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Laws of Virginia, and to amend and reenact §§ 29-8, 29-5, 29-27, 29-28, 29-56, 29-125, 29-126, 29-128 and 29-144 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject.
Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife, Property, Law Enforcement

Chapter 609

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55-286.1, relating to disclaimer and renunciation of powers of appointment.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 610

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-858.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certification of certain accounts for payment.
Budget, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 611

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15-854.1, providing for the creation in certain counties of a department of real estate assessments, the method of appointment and compensation of officers and employees therein, their powers and duties and other matters in relation to the foregoing; to provide for a board of equalization of real estate assessments; and to provide for a referendum and the effect thereof.
Amendments, Business, Property, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 612

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 5904-a and 5904-b, as amended, of the Code of 1919, which were continued in effect by § 16-50 of the Code of Virginia, and §§ 5904-e and 5904-h, as amended, of the Code of 1919, which was incorporated by reference by § 16-50.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to county courts in certain counties.
Judicial, Amendments, Municipal charters, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 613

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by inserting in Title 56 a new section numbered § 56-51.1, to authorize the donation of the entire capital stock of turnpike corporations to the State Highway Commission or to the political subdivisions in which the turnpike is located; and to authorize the acceptance of such donations without obligation or liability by such Commission or said political subdivisions.
Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 614

An Act to repeal §§ 68-48 and 68-49 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain duties of Commissioner of Welfare in relation to register of feeble-minded persons and protection of such persons.
Amendments, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 615

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22-48.4, relating to a certain special school district so as to provide for the abolishment thereof.
Education, Municipal charters, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 616

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-198, relating to recovery of costs in certain cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 617

An Act to amend and renact § 8-310 of the Code of Virginia, relating to taking and preserving oral evidence in chancery causes, so as to provide certain notices and to provide for certain procedures as to motions to strike out all the evidence in chancery causes.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 618

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-106 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when certain officers may take charge of certain animals.
Public officers

Chapter 619

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-129.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginea, relating to regulations concerning the taking of fish and game.
Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 620

An Act to limit the period for introduction of certain bills for consideration by the General Assembly of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 621

An Act to amend and reenact § 8 of Chapter 528 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, approved April 5, 1948, creating Weber City Sanitation District in Estillville Magisterial District of Scott County, Virginia, so as to extend and enlarge the boundaries of said district to embrace certain territory adjacent to the district.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 622

An Act to amend and reenact § 8 of Chapter 206 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, being the charter of the town of Dungannon, in Scott County, the section relating to town officers, the composition of council and terms of office.
Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 623

An Act to amend Chapter 48 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 21, 1928, which provided a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, by adding a section numbered 64-a, prescribing the effect of certain provisions of the charter as to tax sales and aeons.
Amendments, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 624

An Act to define the correct boundaries of territory annexed to the city of Fredericksburg by order of the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania County entered December 21, 1950, in the case of city of Fredericksburg v. county of Spotsylvania.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 625

An Act to authorize and empower the governing board of Radford College, Woman’s Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, to grant to the Appalachian Electric Power Company certain easements of right of way on and across certain property of Radford College, Woman’s Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Utilities, Property, Public officers

Chapter 626

An Act to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to provide for the transfer of certain sanitary districts to certain towns and to authorize such towns to acquire and operate the same.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities

Chapter 627

An Act to authorize the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary to sell certain airport property; to provide for the conveyance thereof; and to appropriate the proceeds therefrom.
Property, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 628

An Act to authorize, subject to certain conditions, the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to sell and convey certain property in Orange County.
Property, Wildlife, Public expenditures

Chapter 629

An Act to appropriate funds for the salary of a judge of the Corporation Court for the city of South Norfolk.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 630

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-942 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation for the citizen member of certain county finance boards.
Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 631

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 632

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by inserting, in Title 56, a chapter numbered 12.2, containing Sections numbered 56-838.19 through 56-838.39, so as to provide for the regulation, supervision, and control by the State Corporation Commission of 'Petroleum Tank Truck Carriers'; to make applicable to such carriers certain provisions of the Motor Vehicle Carrier Laws of Virginia; to prohibit unfair discrimination; and to provide for the enforcement of this Chapter and penalties for the violation thereof.
Transportation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 633

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-731, 58-782, 58-734, 58-7385, 58-735.1, 58-785.2, 58-786, 58-737, 58-7389, 58-740, 58-741, 58-742, 58-748, 58-744, 58-746, 58-747, 58-748, 58-749, 58-750, 58-751, 58-752, 58-7538 and 58-755 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding sections numbered 58-739.1, 58-739.2, 58-739.3, 58-748.1, 58-749.1, 58-749.2, 58-753.1, 58-753.2 and 58-754.1, the amended and new sections relating to taxes on combustible gases and fuels as heavy as or heavier than kerosene used in certain internal combustion engines, so as to provide for a change in the method of collection of such taxes; and to repeal § 58-745, relating to certain sales of such fuels.
Taxation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 634

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-208 of the Code of Virginia, relating to contracts between school boards and teachers, so as to prescribe the duties of the State Board of Education in connection therewith.
Education, Employment and labor

Chapter 635

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 58-776.5, relating to the reassessment of real estate in certain cities so as to permit a general reassesment in certain years.
Amendments, Property

Chapter 636

An Act to repeal Chapter 211 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved March 14, 1944, as amended, which authorized the governing bodies of certain cities to provide for the annual assessment and reassessment of real estate.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 637

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 1-15 and 15-24.8 of the Code of Virginia relating respectively to standard eastern time and daylight saving time.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 638

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered § 28-98.2 relating to the closing of areas of a certain river to oystering for restorative purposes and to provide penalties for violations.
Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 639

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-316 of the Code of Virginia, relating to apportionment of State funds for purchase of textbooks.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 640

An Act to authorize the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to convey certain property upon certain conditions.
Education, Property

Chapter 641

An Act to amend and reenact 8§ 23-35.1, 23-35.8, 23-35.4 and 238-85.5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to scholarships at certain institutions, so as to provide for the awarding of scholarships to medical and dental students under certain conditions; and to appropriate funds.
Education, Healthcare, Employment and labor, Armed forces

Chapter 642

An Act to provide for the recording of the evidence in certain cases and the payment of the costs thereof and to provide for the costs of transcripts.
Judicial

Chapter 643

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-158, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to dredging of oyster planting ground.
Agriculture, Fishing, Business, Property

Chapter 644

An Act to amend and reenact § 63-298 of the Code of Virginia, relating to per diem cost of maintenance of children by the Board of Welfare and Institutions.
Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 645

An Act for the relief of W. C. McCormack and others.
Death and burial, Judicial, Wards

Chapter 646

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-187.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to an additional judge for the corporation court in certain cities.
Judicial

Chapter 647

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-70 of the Code of Virginia, relating to trawling.
Fishing, Amendments

Chapter 648

An Act to require the setting aside of oyster shell; to provide for the disposition thereof; and to provide for the payment therefor.
Agriculture, Fishing

Chapter 649

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 28-88 and 28-89 of the Code of Virginia, relating to collection of sums for licenses, rentals, and fines due Commission of Fisheries; and the venue for certain trials.
Fishing, Industry, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 650

An Act to impose a tax on oysters taken from the public rocks; to provide for the administration of such tax; to prohibit certain acts and to provide penalties for violations; to provide for the disposition of the revenues; and to repeal certain acts.
Taxation, Fishing, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 651

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23-86.2, creating certain nursing scholarships and providing for the administration thereof.
Education, Healthcare, Civil Rights, Charity

Chapter 652

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46-267, 46-269 and 46-271 of the Code of Virginia, relating to lamps and lights on vehicles.
Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 653

An Act to prescribe when licenses issued by the Commission of Fisheries shall terminate and to permit proration of such licenses.
Fishing

Chapter 654

An Act to prohibit the possession of oysters on certain boats and to prescribe penalties for violations.
Fishing

Chapter 655

An Act for the relief of Frank D. Shrader.
Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 656

An Act for the relief of Mrs. Colie Hamlett Harris and others.
Healthcare, Death and burial

Chapter 657

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 4 of Title 10 an article numbered 8 containing sections numbered 10-90.2 to 10-90.9, inclusive, establishing the responsibility of the Department of Conservation and Development, The Division of Forestry thereof, and the State Forester relating to control of certain insects and diseases attacking forest trees; providing for cooperation between certain persons and agencies in carrying out the purposes of the article; providing for appeals; establishing a special fund in the State treasury and directing the payment of certain moneys thereto; and appropriating funds.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Industry

Chapter 658

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-906 and 8-908 of the Code of Virginia, relating to civil liability of persons cutting and taking timber of another.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 659

An Act to amend and reenact § 21-11 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the purchase of machinery and other equipment, so as to provide that the State Soil Conservation Committee may execute certain contracts.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 660

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-876 of the Code of Virginia, relating to expiration and renewal of operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses so as to increase the fee and require certain notices.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 661

An Act for the relief of T. L. Childress
Healthcare, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 662

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 28-196.1, relating to oysters packaged for sale so as to prescribe a maximum proportion of liquid and a method of determining such proportion.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 663

An Act for the relief of James S. Craig, Sr.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 664

An Act for the relief of McKinley Manns.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 665

An Act for the relief of the Crown Savings Bank.
Business, Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 666

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46-212, 46-226, 46-281, 46-288 and 46-878 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the regulation of traffic, and revocation of drivers’ licenses of certain persons by the Division of Motor Vehicles, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto sections numbered 46-195.1, 46-215.1, 46-847.1, 46-847.2 and 46-416.1, relating respectively to surrender of certain licenses of certain persons under certain conditions, revocation of certain licenses of certain persons, providing certain penalties for operating motor vehicles after licenses have been revoked, and to provide certain other revocations of licenses under certain conditions, and to repeal § 46-211. of the Code of Virginia, relating to driving when license suspended.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 667

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 17 of Title $ an article, numbered 9.1 containing sections numbered 8-476.1 through 8-476.8, relating to control of Vitamin A and D fortified skimmed milk with or without added milk solids.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 668

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-288 of the Code of Virginia, relating to organization of cooperatives.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 669

An Act to amend and reenact § 4-112 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sales of certain beverages to minors, and concealment of sales or consumption of beverages, so as to include certain other persons therein.
Alcohol, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 670

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-894 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers and duties of the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles, to provide compulsion of attendance and testimony at hearings by court order.
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 671

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46-208, 46-209, 46-220, 46-222 and 46-256 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and to amend the Code by adding thereto a section numbered 46-220.1, the new and amended sections relating generally to the regulation of traffic on the Mar
Transportation, Public officers, Recreation

Chapter 672

An Act to prohibit the selling or offering for sale of any agricultural implements, farm tractors, farm machinery or equipment, the original serial number of which has been destroyed, removed, altered, covered or defaced, and providing a penalty for violation
Agriculture

Chapter 673

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-240 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of gill nets in the waters of the Potomac River.
Fishing, Amendments, Transportation, Boundaries

Chapter 674

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-64 of the Code of Virginia, relating to picketing.
Labor, Employment and labor, Civil Rights, Public spaces, Judicial

Chapter 675

An Act to require certain tags for placement upon motor vehicles to be supplied certain persons by the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles; to prescribe the fees therefor; and to provide for the disposition of the revenues therefrom.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments, Business

Chapter 676

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-1438 of the Code of Virginia, relating to waters in the State in which certain oysters may be culled
Agriculture, Fishing, Amendments

Chapter 677

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 58-404.01, relating to the license taxation of livestock dealers.
Agriculture, Business, Taxation

Chapter 678

An Act to authorize the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration to convey to the city of Harrisonburg a certain strip of land.
Agriculture, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 679

An Act relating to the taxation of certain poultry and livestock producers.
Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 680

An Act to give the assent of the State to a certain federal statute and to confer certain powers upon the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries in connection therewith.
Fishing, Wildlife, Public expenditures

Chapter 681

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-67.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to service on Commissioner of Motor Vehicles as agent and attorney of the nonresident motor vehicle operator and of the personal representative of such nonresident.
Transportation, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 682

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 46-105.2, relating to use of dealer’s license plates on newly purchased motor vehicles.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 683

An Act to require county agents in certain counties to perform certain duties in relation to the prevention, abatement and control of certain diseases of livestock and poultry; to confer certain powers; and to require certain officers to assist in the enforcement of this act; and to repeal Chapter 166 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 11, 1946, relating to the foregoing.
Agriculture

Chapter 684

An Act to provide for the transfer of possession of real estate between agencies of the Commonwealth.
Property

Chapter 685

An Act to amend and reenact Chapter 202 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, relating to the season in which squirrels may be lawfully taken in certain counties, and providing penalties for violations, so as to provide when squirrels may be taken in certain other counties.
Hunting

Chapter 686

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 38 an article numbered 10 containing section numbered 88-256 so as to confer certain powers upon cities and towns with respect to charging or collecting tolls for transit over certain streets, roads, bridges or tunnels within the corporate limits thereof.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 687

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-298 of the Code of Virginia, relating to brokers and commission merchants so as to prohibit the terms of the section from being construed as applying to certain Be eG) 4)
Business, Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 688

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-825 of the Code of Virginia, relating to boards of zoning appeals in cities and towns.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 689

An Act for the relief of Mrs. Rosa Crawley Richardson.
Death and burial, Employment and labor, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 690

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-276.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the employment of unlicensed practitioners as internes or residents in hospitals, so as to extend the period of employment in certain cases and under certain conditions.
Healthcare

Chapter 691

An Act to amend and reenact § 37-231, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sexual sterilization of certain mentally ill, mentally deficient and epileptic persons, and to amend the Code by adding a section numbered § 37-231.1 relating to the same matters.
Amendments, Healthcare, Reformatories, Custody of children

Chapter 692

An Act to amend and reenact § 20-72 of the Code of Virginia, relating to suspending of sentence and release on probation, of defendants in desertion and nonsupport cases, so as to remove one class of persons from those to whom the court may direct certain payments to be made.
Amendments, Divorce, Custody of children, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement

Chapter 693

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-290 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the keeping and exhibition for sale or use of punch boards, slot machines and certain other devices.
Gambling

Chapter 694

An Act to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to adopt ordinances regulating the keeping of animals therein.
Agriculture, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 695

An Act to amend and reenact § 33-119 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the erection and maintenance of gates across private roads by landowners and providing for relief in certain cases of hardship.
Property, Amendments

Chapter 696

An Act to prevent interruption or suspensions in the operation of certain public utilities
Utilities, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 697

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding six new sections numbered §8§ 40-75.1 through 40-75.6, to designate the Department of Labor and Industry as the State agency established to mediate and conciliate labor disputes, to require notice of labor disputes between certain public utilities and their employees and to impose on the Commissioner of Labor, or his designated agent, certain duties in connection therewith; and to repeal §§ 40-75 through 40-95, relating to labor disputes affecting operation of certain public utilities.
Labor, Employment and labor, Utilities, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 698

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 54-806.1, relating to when certain persons may take certain examinations.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Armed forces, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 699

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-485 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain estate of debtor.
Debt, Judicial, Business

Chapter 700

An Act to amend Title 87 of the Code of Virginia, relating to insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate persons and drug addicts, by adding thereto a new section numbered 87-61.2 so as to provide for the appointment of special justices to perform the duties of the justice or trial justice under the title, and to amend and reenact § 87-62 of the Code of Virginia, concerning duties of the judges, trial justices and special justices in dealing with such persons and addicts.
Amendments, Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 701

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-187 of the Code of Virginia, relating to allowances to certain witnesses.
Judicial
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