An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
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Chap. 421.—An ACT to amerd the act approved January 26, 1882,
entitled an act to provide for the more ethcient collection of the
revenue, &c.
Approved March 13, 1ss4.
1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to provide for the more eflicient collee-
tion of the revenue to support government, maintain the
public schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, ap-
proved January twenty-sixth, cighteen hundred and vighty-
two. be amended by the addition of the following sections:
§2. Whenever any papers purporting to be coupons cut
from bonds of this state, shall be tendered to the collecting
officer in payment of any taxes duc to the state by any p: arty
desiring to bring a suit under this statute, it shall be the
duty ot the collecting officer to place the coupons so tendered,
in an envelope; to seal the said envelope, write his name
across the seal thereof, endorse it with the numbers of the
coupons enclosed, and return it to the tax-payer. Upon the
trial of any proceeding under this act, the said coupons
enclosed in the said envelope so sealed and cndorsed, must
be produced in evidence to prove the tender. If the court
shall certify that the money paid under protest ought to be
refunded, the said coupons shall be delivered to the auditor
of public accounts, to be cancelled simultaneously with the
issue of his warrant.
§ 3. No action of trespass. or trespass on the case, shall be
brought or maintained against any collecting officer ‘for levy-
ing upon the property ‘of any tux- pay er who may have ten-
dered in payment, in whole or in part, any coupons or paper
purporting to be a coupon, cut from bonds of this state for
such taxes, and who shall retuse to pay his taxes in gold,
silver , United States treasury notes, or national bank notes.
The suit contemplated by tnis act shall be commenced by :
petition filed at rules, upon which a summons shall be issued
to the collecting officer; and the said suit shall be regularly
matured like other actions at law, and the coupons tendered
shall be filed with said petition.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.