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1920

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5986, 5987, 5988, 5989 and 5990 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3142 of the Code of Virginia, relative to lists of jurors, approved March 16, 1918.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 135 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
Judicial, Salaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5888 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial

Chapter 4

An ACT to provide for the payment of the general and the contingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly and to appropriate money for the same.
Budget, Public expenditures, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5893 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 42 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1402 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 28, 1902, in relation to suits by and against trustees, approved March 15, 1918.
Amendments, Property, Religious Institutions, Public expenditures

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections and authorizing. cemetery companies and trutsees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift.
Cemeteries, Property, Death and burial, Charity

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1636 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 9

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 122 of the Code of Virginia
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 10

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2094 of the Code of Virginia.
Jails, Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 11

An ACT to provide for the issuing of bonds of Fauquier county for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the said county.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Civil Rights, Property, Utilities

Chapter 12

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pittsylvania county to borrow the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars to be used for general county purposes, including public schools and public roads and to issue notes or bonds therefor.
Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Transportation

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2449 of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 14

An ACT to repeal section 2466 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 15

An ACT to repeal section 3009 of the Code of Virginia.
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3852 of the Code of eS
Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3897 of the Code of Ms
Debt, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3935 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4125 of the Code of Virginia
Inheritance and succession, Dead bodies (Law)

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4180 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend section 4354 of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 22

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4813 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial, Coroner, Law Enforcement

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend section 4895 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5388 and 5389 of the Code
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5787 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5790 of the Code of Pen ae
Amendments, Judicial, Death and burial

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend section 6105 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 28

An ACT to repeal section 6441 of the Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 29

An ACT providing when an action of account may be re
Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 13 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 31

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 598 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894, entitled an act in relation to working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Alexandria county, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1896, approved February 11, 1898.
Transportation

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act entitled an act to amend sections 16, 21, 23, 26 and 28, of the charter of Suffolk, approved February 3, 1888.
Budget, Public officers, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 33

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Prince George county to lease such part of the courthouse green of the said county as may not be necessary for county purposes.
Municipal charters

Chapter 34

An ACT for the protection of deer in the counties of Bath and Highland.
Hunting

Chapter 35

An ACT to empower the council of the town of Wakxefieid, in the county of Sussex, to issue and sell bonds to the amount of and not exceeding $20,000.00, for the purpose of borrowing money to erect, equip and operate a plant for the manufacture, distribution and sale of electricity, or to contract for the manufacture of same; provided, that the question of such bond issue for the purpose named be first submitted to the qualified voters of said town, and to authorize said council to call an election for the submission of the same to the voters.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 133 of the acts of assembly of 1918, approved March 13, 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg
Municipal charters, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 37

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the pro-
Hunting

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Wakefield, approved April 2, 1902.
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 39

An ACT to authorize Amelia county to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to build a court-house.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2244 of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 41

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fauquier county to erect a county building to contain the offices of the treasurer and clerk, and other county officers; and to contract a loan and issue bonds for said purpose upon the approval of the judge of the circuit court for said county ; and to levy an annual tax to pay interest on said bonds and to create a sinking fund for their payment at maturity or before.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and kcening in repair of public roads in the counties of Alleghanv, Bath and Highland
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 43

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Brunswick county to distribute certain portions of the general county levy funds among the various districts for road purposes.
Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2233 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the appointment of assessors of lands and lots, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 437 of the Code of Virginia (1887) as heretofore amended, approved September 9, 1919.
Amendments, Property, Public officers

Chapter 45

An ACT to authorize the county of Albemarle to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 46

An ACT to prohibit the obstructing of Pole Cat creek, Caroline county.
Property, Public spaces

Chapter 47

An ACT to authorize the town council of the town of Lawrenceville, Brunswick county, Virginia, to issue and sell bonds of the said town to an amount not in excess of twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising money to repair, extend, enlarge and improve, the municipal light, water and sewerage system of said town.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4, sub-section 1, of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, as amended by an act approved HeUruany, 1918.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 49

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bath county to condemn land and material in Highland county, under certain conditions, for road purposes.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 50

An ACT to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in Giles county, other than such as are included in the State highway system, and to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the construction, reconstruction and permanent improvement of the roads and bridges embraced in the county highway system.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 51

An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Warren county to issue bonds of the said county not in excess of fifteen thousand dollars ($15 00000) to bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; to pay for the completion of the road leading from Browntown to Bentonville, in South River district in said county; and to levy a tax on the taxable property of said district to pay the interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund for their redemption.
Bonds, Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20, 1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties, as amended by act approved February 9, 1916, so as to provide how the board of supervisors of Buchanan county may establish, change and relocate roads in that county and contract for the construction of same, on terms and conditions
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 53

An ACT to authorize the State highway commissioner to sell the houses and lands appurtenant thereto on the Valley turnpike conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia under the act approved March 20, ae .
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 54

An ACT to authorize the school board of Fairfield school district No. 3 of Henrico county to borrow money to retire outstanding bonds and pay off present indebtedness.
Budget, Bonds, Education

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that purpose, approved March 6, 1900, approved March 15, 1910.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 56

A JOINT RESOLUTION rejecting the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States on woman suffrage.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Voting

Chapter 57

An ACT to authorize the governor of Virginia to accept, in the name of the Commonwealth, gifts of works of art.
Public expenditures

Chapter 58

An ACT to extend the time within which a person to whom license had been issued prior to March 14, 1918, to practice law in Virgniia, but who had been prevented from qualifying and commencing said practice within two years after the granting of said license by his entry into the military or naval service of the United States may qualify and commence said practice without further examination.
Lawyers, Armed forces, Judicial

Chapter 59

An ACT to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by city, county and town treasurers, and not returned delinquent.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four and acts antencolayy Bee
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 61

An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Page county to levy a sufficient tax in addition to the levy authorized by law, to be laid for general district school purposes, to pay the interest on and principal of certain bonds as the same shall become due.
Education, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 62

An ACT to authorize increase of pay to the clerks of Page and Rappahannock counties, for services as clerk of the board of supervisors.
Public officers, Budget, Amendments

Chapter 63

An ACT to prohibit any officer in administering an oath from requiring or requesting the person taking the oath to kiss the Holy Bible, or any book or books thereof.
Civil Rights, Religious Institutions

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Virgilina, in the county of Halifax
Incorporation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 65

An ACT to amend section 3876 of chapter 151 of the Code of 1919, so as to allow members of any such corporations as are referred to in said section, when physically or otherwise disabled from being present in person at any meeting called or held for any of the purposes referred to in said section, to vote by proxy.
Amendments, Business, Voting

Chapter 66

An ACT to enlarge and define the power and the jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 67

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Carroll county to levy a capitation tax for schools or other county purposes.
Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 15, 1904, authorizing the board of supervisors of Patrick and Grayson counties to levy a capitation tax for school or other county purposes.
Amendments, Education, Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 882 of the Code of Virginia
Agriculture

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend section 719 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Segregation, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5276 of the Code of Virginia
Inheritance and succession, Marriage

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend section 703 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal sections 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717 and 718 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend section 615 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 74

An ACT to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security and at low rate of interest.
Business, Employment and labor, Taxation

Chapter 75

An ACT to provide for the conveyance by the Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls of its property, real and personal to the Commonwealth of Virginia; that the Commonwealth will assume control, operation and management of the same.
Children -- Institutional care, Education, Charity, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the conveyance by the Prison Association of Virginia-of the Laurel Industrial School, its property, real and personal, located in the county of Henrico and the State of Virginia; that the State will assume the control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the charter of the said association, approved March 16, 1918.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Reformatories

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3408 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing who may practice law in this State.
Amendments, Lawyers, Judicial, Civil Rights, Equality before the law

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2551 of the Code oT en
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 79

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate annually from the general county levy fund a sufficient amount of money for the construction and maintenance of public roads, in any and all the districts of said county, and to borrow money at any time not to exceed $25,000.00 annually, for the construction and maintenance of said roads.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2250 of the Code of Virginia
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 81

An ACT concerning the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls.
Children -- Institutional care, Education, Public officers

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend section 669 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 83

An ACT validating certificates of acknowledgment taken by notaries public who served in the army, navy, or marine corps of the United States during the late war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Armed forces, Judicial

Chapter 84

An ACT to amend section 786 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Public officers, Public spaces, Children -- Institutional care, Charity

Chapter 85

An ACT to amend sections 653 and 654 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 86

An ACT to provide that the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and the several State normal schools for women shall be placed on the year-round basis of instruction as soon as their financial resources will warrant
Education, Agriculture

Chapter 87

An ACT to repeal sections 693 and 722 of the Code of Virginia
Repeal of legislation

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend section 741 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 89

An ACT to expedite the collection of taxes and levies on lands and lots, which have not been paid prior to the report of delinquents for any year, by county and city treasurers; defining certain duties of such treasurers and making compensation therefor.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 91

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the shooting, for sale, of rabbits in Madison county, approved March 13, 1918.
Hunting, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 92

An ACT to authorize the school board of Pleasant Grove magisterial district, No. 3, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $50,000.00 in amount.
Education, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 93

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5917 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement

Chapter 94

An ACT to authorize the school board of Butts road magisteria district, No. 4, of the county of Norfolk, to borrow money for the purpos of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $50,000.00 in amount.
Education, Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 95

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose ef completing the Nortk Landing road in Kempsville magisterial dis- trict from the village of Kempsville to Salem church.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 96

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Nelson county to issue bonds, not exceeding in amount $15,000.00, for road and bridge purposes in Massie’s Mill magisterial district.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 10, 1902, entitled an act prescribing the manner of working and keeping in repair the public roads, and the manner of opening and constructing new roads and bridges and discontinuing public roads in Alleghany county, Virginia.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 98

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908 as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary public
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 99

An ACT to authorize the city of Suffolk to issue bonds to redeem bonds maturing during the years nineteen hundred and twenty and nineteen hundred and twenty-one.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 100

An ACT to authorize the school board of Luray corporation school district, No. 5, of the county of Page, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor for the purpose of enlarging school buildings, etc., etc.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures
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