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1920

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 507

Chapter 201

An ACT to repeal an act to authorize the city of Bristol to lease or sell the Gauthier property in said city
Property

Chapter 202

An ACT to prevent the trapping of foxes in the counties of Albemarle, Nelson and Amherst.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 203

An ACT to amend and re-enact section two thousand seven hundred and two of the Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 204

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk, in its discretion, to borrow the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars and issue bonds therefor, for road and bridge purposes.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2137 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 206

An ACT concerning depositories for the funds of Culpeper county and the interest on such funds.
Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 207

An ACT to prohibit the removal and carrying away of sand or gravel from the fast land, beach or bluff abutting upon any of the rivers, streams or other waters within the jurisdiction of ‘this Commonwealth or from the beds of any such waters, or from land lying between high and low water-mark of any such waters, and to repeal an act entitled an act to punish stealing and taking away sand within this Commonwealth, on the banks of the Potomac river, approved March 8, 1894.
Property, Public spaces

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 3, 1900, and in force from its passage, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith; and also to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Charlottesville, approved March 14, 1908.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Property, Taxation, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 209

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge, and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors.
Cemeteries, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4200 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 212

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3857 of the Code of Virginia.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize the county of Louisa to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00)
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 215

An ACT to validate certain allowances made to petit jurors by the circuit court of Washington county.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Jails, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 216

An ACT to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of towns located partially in one county and partially in another.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact section nine of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State, and repealing all acts in so far as the same are in conflict herewith, approved September 5, 1919, in relation to King William county.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3393 of the Code of Virginia.
Property, Bonds, Marriage

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2385 of the Code ~ Virginia.
Taxation

Chapter 221

An ACT endorsing the erection of a statute of brotherhood, at Fort Wool, otherwise called the “Rip Raps” in Hampton Roads.
Monuments and memorials, Armed forces, Civil Rights

Chapter 222

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4154 of the Code of Virginia.
Business

Chapter 223

An ACT to provide for a portrait of the late Senator Thomas S. Martin, and to make appropriation therefor out of the public Emde
Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 224

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2543 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 225

An ACT to make an appropriation for the purpose of making such changes in the Confederate memorial institute as will be necessary to provide for housing the paintings presented to the State of Virginia by Honorable John Barton Payne.
Amendments, Confederate, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 54 and 70 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry, approved March 3, 1892, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 227

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Patrick county to borrow money for the purpose of road construction, improvement and maintenance in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, not exceeding $50,000.00 in amount.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 228

An ACT concerning the commissions of the treasurer of the county of Stafford
Bonds, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 229

An ACT to ratify, confirm and validate all elections, proceedings, acts or things heretofore held, done and performed in the city of Norfolk in reference to authorizing and issuing by the city of Norfolk, pursuant to chapter 122 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, of thirty-year, five per cent bonds of the city of Norfolk for the aggregate principal amount of six million dollars, for the purpose of enlarging and improving the water supply system of the city of Norfolk.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 230

An ACT to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof...
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Legislative Amendments, Property, Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 231

An ACT prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 232

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Smyth county to invest the sinking fund of said county in bonds.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 233

An ACT providing for the appointment of a commission on the development of Hampton Roads.
Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 234

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 235

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6452 of the Code of Virginia, 1919.
Agriculture, Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 236

An ACT to validate all acts of notaries public, commissioners in chancery and commissioners of accounts who, since January 13, 1920, may have held certain other offices.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4549 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Education, Judicial

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2389 of the Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 239

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5412 of the Code in reference to books and stationery furnished commissioners and how paid for.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2854 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Budget, Civil Rights, Judicial, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 241

An ACT to change the name of Alexandria county to Arlington county.
Municipal charters

Chapter 242

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Prince Edward county to levy a capitation tax for school and road purposes.
Taxation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 243

An ACT to authorize the school board of Newsoms school district No. 8, the county of Southampton, Virginia, to issue bonds of the school district for the purpose of erecting a public high school building at Newsoms, Virginia, for the said district.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 244

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Dinwiddie to levy a special tax in Westboro and Darville precincts in said county for road improvements in said precincts.
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 245

An ACT to provide a road commission for Eastville magisterial district, in Northumberland: county, and to repeal previous acts.
Transportation

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Botetourt county, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt county, approved March 4, 1896, and an act amendatory thereof, approved February 14, 1901, approved March 15, 1906, as heretofore amended.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 247

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Washington county to build bridges, and to lay tax levies to pay therefor, and to issue certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of such tax collections.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 248

An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Prince George county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint a special police force for said county, and to provide for the compensation of persons appointed as such special police force.
Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2430 and 2431 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 10 and 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mesienburg Ses Virginia, approved February 16, 1901, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 251

An ACT to provide for relief from employment on Sundays of certain employees of the State and the departments thereof.
Employment and labor, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 4 of an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing the disbursement of the county road fund, approved March 4, 1914.
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, approved March 11, 1916, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Salaries

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2052 of the Code of Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 255

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2591 and 2601 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the settlement of the public debt, and to authorize the board of sinking fund commissioners to fund certain bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, of the face value of $6,500.00.
Amendments, Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures, Utilities, Business

Chapter 256

An ACT to provide for the payment of small amounts into court, and then to the parties entitled to receive the same, without the intervention of any administrator, guardian or committee.
Property, Judicial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 257

An ACT to regulate the sizes of type to be used in certain contracts,.and to prescribe the effect of the use of sizes of type other than those required.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 340 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 259

An ACT to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies other than life, providing a penalty for any violation hereof and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Business, Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 885 of the Code of Virginia.
Agriculture

Chapter 261

An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $90,000.00 and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in Wilson, Elk Creek and Old Town magisterial districts of said county; to provide for the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issue; to authorize the purchase of machinery and tools necessary therefor; to authorize the employment of civil engineers, road builders and labor; to specify the roads and parts thereof to be constructed and the amounts to be expended thereon; to provide for imposing a tax on all property, county and district, including property in any incorporated town situated within the above named districts, for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of such debt; to do all things necessary, needful or incidental to the main purposes of this act; and to declare an emergency.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Utilities

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1004, 1005, 1019, 1021, 1022, 1024, 1027, 1047, 1050, 1063, 1066, 1067, 1076, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1085, and 1089 of title 12, chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Charity, Judicial

Chapter 263

An ACT for the relief of the family of J. C. Shelhorse.
Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Death and burial, Children -- Institutional care, Law Enforcement

Chapter 264

An ACT to provide for the inspection by the office of the State accountant of the accounts of city and county officials handling Ta ae
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 200 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 266

An ACT to provide for the completion of the publication, binding and distribution of the Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 267

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on medical education in Virginia; to define its powers and duties; to provide how the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Virginia may be consolidated and prescribing the effect thereof.
Healthcare, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 268

An ACT establishing the Virginia truck experiment station; providing for the appointment of a board of directors thereof, and prescribing the powers and duties of the said board; also providing for the control and maintenance of the Eastern Shore experiment station located near Onley.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 269

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on the fee system in Virginia, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said commission.
Public officers, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 270

An ACT to authorize the exchange and conveyance of a lot not exceeding eleven acres of land, part of State penitentiary. farm.
Prisons, Property, Public officers

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend section 582 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Public spaces, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 272

An ACT to provide for a preliminary survey of the State highway system of roads, and certain other surveys.
Transportation

Chapter 273

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5019 of the Code of Virginia.
Jails, Judicial, Prisons, Amendments

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of Franklin county, except with hook and line, approved September 4, 1919.
Fishing

Chapter 275

An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton, and State of Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the enlargement, extension, repair, improvement and maintenance of the water and sewer systems of the said town.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 306 of the Code of Virginia.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 277

An ACT to authorize the town council of Blackstone, in the county of Nottoway, to levy a special tax to equip and maintain a fire net ae
Fire fighters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to erect and maintain toll gates on the macadamized roads of said county, approved March 24, 1914.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands, and other property, belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and, Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and for other purposes, passed January 25, 1814.
Education, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 280

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5189 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919, [H B 203]
Business, Debt, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 281

An ACT for the protection of persons employed in the construction or repair of railroad cars or car trucks or similar equipment.
Employment and labor, Industry, Labor, Public officers

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of an act entitled an act ‘to provide a new charter for the town of Gretna, Pittsylvania county, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 17, 1916.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of the road law of Montgomery county, as approved March 24, 1910.
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 284

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2252 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia (1887), as heretofore amended, in relation to commissioners of revenue
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 285

An ACT to provide for the protection of the wild life in the county of Clarke.
Wildlife, Hunting, Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 286

An ACT authorizing the boards of supervisors of Carroll and Grayson counties to enter into a contract in relation to the erection and maintenance of a certain bridge in Grayson county, 2nd authorizing the board of supervisors of Carroll county to appropriate money for the erection and maintenance of such bridge.
Transportation

Chapter 287

An ACT to authorize the chairman of the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county, who may be in office when this act takes effect, to sign certain minutes of the said board.
Municipal charters

Chapter 288

An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg to sell and make conveyance of certain lots of land owned by the said city.
Property, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 289

An ACT to validate acknowledgements heretofore taken by justices of the peace, and mayors of cities or towns or police justices who by virtue of their offices had the powers and authority of justices of the peace, where such justices or mayors, or police justices are designated in the perieneaes of acknowledgement as police justices.
Public officers, Judicial, Property

Chapter 290

An ACT requiring certain State institutions to purchase only pure bred cattle, sheep and hogs.
Agriculture

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3194 of the Code of Virginia.
Fishing, Wildlife, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 292

An ACT to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to borrow money, issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of completing a public school building, and providing for submission of the issuance of bonds for this purpose to the qualified voters of the said city.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 293

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3173 of the Code of Virginia.
Fishing, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 294

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3330 of the Code of Virginia.
Hunting

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3716 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Segregation, Transportation

Chapter 296

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3885 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing the procedure and conditions under which a public service corporation, if it becomes necessary in the construction of its work, or in changing its grade, or in double tracking the same, may cross any State or county road.
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 298

An ACT to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Public officers, Judicial, Wards

Chapter 299

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 16, 17 and 18 of an act entitled an act to regulate the business of making small loans, by requiring persons charging directly or indirectly a greater rate of compensation than the conventional legal interest rate per annum on loans not exceeding three hundred ($300) dollars, to any person, to obtain a license; by prescribing the maximum amount of compensation which licensees may charge; by regulating assignments to licensees of salaries or wages earned, or to be earned by prohibiting false or deceptive advertising concerning such loans; by fixing penalties for violation of certain provisions of this act; by prescribing certain duties of the chief examiners of banking division of the corporation commission in respect to licensees; repealing section 81 of the revenue act and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1918.
Amendments, Business, Debt, Employment and labor

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6348 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 6349 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appeals and writs of error.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments
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