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
Volume | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 863 |
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Chap. 863.—An ACT to provide for a Bureau of labor and industrial statistics and
for defining the duties of said bureau.
Approved March 3, 1898.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a bureau of
labor and industrial statistics of the state of Virginia is hereby estab-
lished.
2. It shall be the duty of said bureau to collect, assort, systematize,
and present in annual reports to the governor, to be by him biennially
transmitted to the legislature, statistical details relating to all depart-
ments of labor, penal institutions, and industrial pursuits in the state,
especially in their relation to the commercial, industrial, social, educa-
tional and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the perma-
nent prosperity of the productive industries of the state.
3. The governor shall appoint, by and with the consent of the senate,
some suitable person who 1s identified with the labor interests of the
state, who shall be designated commissioner of labor statistics, and who
shall, upon the request of the governor, furnish such information as he
may require.
4. The commissioner shall have power to take and preserve testimony,
examine witnesses under oath and administer the same; and in the dis-
charge of his duties may, under proper restrictions, enter any public
institution of the state, and any factory, workshop or mine. The com-
missioner may also furnish and deliver a written or printed list of inter-
rogations to any person, company, or the proper officer of any corpora-
tion, and require full and complete answers to be made thereto and
returned under oath within thirty days of receipt of said list of ques-
tions; and if any pe rson who may be sworn to give testimony shall wil-
fully fail or refuse to answer any question propounded to him concerning
the subject of such examination, as provided in this act: or if any person
to whom a written or printed list of interrogations has been furnished by
said commissioner shall neglect or refuse to fully answer and return the
same under oath, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, before a court of competent jurisdiction,
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than
twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding
ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment.
5. All state, county, township and city oflicers are hereby directed to
furnish said commissioner, upon his request, all statistical information
in reference to labor which shall be in their possession as such officers.
6. The sum of two thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropri-
ated out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated,
eight hundred dollars of which is to be used as salary of the said com-
missioner, and the balance to be used to meet contingent expenses, and
su forth.
7. This act shall be in force from its passage.