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1924

Laws in Volume
Displaying 1 - 100 of 485

Chapter 1

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia relating to the compensation of judges, as amended by Acts 1922, page 5, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith.
Judicial, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 2

An ACT to authorize the mayor and the council of the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, to borrow not exceeding $25,000 and issue bonds therefor for the purpose of erecting and equipping a school building in said town.
Bonds, Budget, Education

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow the quali-
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 4

An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to issue bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 5

An ACT to authorize the county school board of Pittsylvania county to borrow the sum of two hundred thousand dollars and to issue county bonds therefor, and providing for the collection of a tax for the payment thereof, and validating all proceedings heretofore had and declaring an omer
Budget, Bonds, Education, Taxation

Chapter 6

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Parksley in the county of Accomac to levy a capitation tax for school purposes.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 7

An ACT declaring that filled milk, as defined in this act, is an adulterated article of food, injurious to the public health, and that its sale constitutes a fraud upon the public; and prohibiting the manufacture, sale or exchange of any filled milk and its possession with intent to sell or exchange the wt
Business

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 217 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 9

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of counties and the councils of cities and towns, and the officers of counties, cities and towns who are empowered to purchase supplies for local public use, to seek the aid and co-operation of the State purchasing agent in purchasing such supplies; and to make it the duty of the State purchasing agent to encourage the seeking of such aid and co-operation, and to render the same when sought.
Public expenditures, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 10

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5420 and 5423 of the Code of Virginia.
Inheritance and succession, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 11

An ACT to give preference to claims of the Commonwealth of Virginia and her political subdivisions for taxes, levies and fees, together with penal- ties and interest thereon.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Debt

Chapter 12

An ACT to provide for the drainage of low lands in the county of Norfolk.
Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 13

An ACT to authorize counties to establish county free libraries and reading rooms, and to provide for their operation and maintenance.
Libraries

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4482 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Libraries, Education, Property

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 939, 940, 942, 943, 945 and 946 of the Code of Virginia of 1919.
Education, Amendments, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 16

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Edinburg and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the town of Edinburg and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid.
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Fire fighters, Pensions, Charity

Chapter 17

An ACT to establish the office of county road engineer for the county of Southampton; to provide for his appointment, compensation, and removal and to prescribe his powers and duties.
Transportation

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, approved March 16, 1920.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Education, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3181 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Fishing

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to invest in boards of supervisors of counties adjoining and abutting a city with a population of 125,000 or more inhabitants, as shown by United States census, the Same powers and authority now vested or hereafter conferred upon common councils of cities and towns, approved March 4, 1920.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 21

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of muskrat in Essex, Charles City, James City, New Kent, York and Warwick counties, approved March 24, 1920; and requiring the game wardens to enforce the provisions of this act, approved March 16, 1923.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 22

An ACT to provide libraries in the public schools and to repeal sections seven hundred and fifty-four, seven hundred and fifty-five and seven hundred and fifty-six of the Code of Virginia of nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Education, Libraries, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1797 of the Code of Virginia
Employment and labor, Industry, Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 24

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

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3463 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 26

An ACT to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of the several counties and the councils or other governing bodies of the several cities to enter into binding contracts for the maintenance of the poor.
Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 27

An ACT to require the State accountant to prepare and cause to be published annually a statement showing in detail the comparative cost of local government as among counties and cities of the State and the per capita cost thereof.
Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Parksley, in the county of Accomac, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of Parksley, Virginia, approved March 12, 1904, approved Marea ie 1916.
Municipal charters, Business, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to constitute the town of Leesburg and adjoining territory a separate school district, and to authorize the council of said town to appoint or elect the school trustees for said district, approved February 11, 1896, as amended February 17, 1922, and March 24, 1922.
Education, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 30

An ACT authorizing the county school board of James City county to borrow money, not in excess of fifty thousand ($50,000.00) dollars, and to issue its bonds therefor, for the purpose of repairing, altering, equipping, enlarging and adding to the school buildings and facilities for transportation of pupils, and for furnishing schoolhouses and buildings in Jamestown, Powhatan and Stonehouse districts and requiring the board of supervisors of said county annually to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Education, Public expenditures, Taxation, Bonds

Chapter 31

An ACT to authorize and empower the councils of the cities and towns of the State to appropriate money for advertising their resources.
Budget, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1625, 1626, 1629, 1630, i. and 1632 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Healthcare, Employment and labor, Business, Public officers

Chapter 33

An ACT authoniding the city of Norfolk, in addition to its present powers, to fix and determine pierhead and bulkhead lines in waters within the territorial limits of the city of Norfolk, in which the Federal government. ¢ does not exercise jurisdiction.
Municipal charters, Property, Transportation

Chapter 34

An ACT to provide for the recordation of marketing contracts or agreements entered into by agricultural producers and co-operative corporations and co-operative marketing associations and their members; and to prescribe the effect of such recordations.
Agriculture

Chapter 35

An ACT authorizing cities, towns and counties to establish and conduct systems of public recreation and playgrounds.
Public spaces, Recreation, Taxation

Chapter 36

An ACT to authorize, and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the Justice ¢ of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county.
Judicial, Salaries, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 37

An ACT authorizing the county school board of Norfolk county to borrow money, not in excess of $250,000.00, and to issue its bonds therefor, for school improvements in said county; and requiring the board of supervisors of said county annually to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Education, Budget, Property

Chapter 38

An ACT to continue the salaries of the judges of the first and tenth judicial circuits.
Judicial, Salaries

Chapter 39

An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of Norton school district, Wise county, Virginia, to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding $75,000.00 for the purpose of funding the floating indebtedness of Norton school district of Wise county, for funding certain bonded indebtedness of said district and for the purpose of acquiring additional school property in said district; and to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920.
Judicial

Chapter 41

An ACT to authorize and empower the county school board of Wise county to issue and sell bonds to an amount not exceeding $35,000.00, for the
Bonds, Education, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 42

An ACT to repeal section five, chapter sixty-seven, acts of the general assembly, 1916, approved February 26, 1916, relating to that part of B and magisterial district, Prince George county, known as Hopewell.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the use, so far as practicable, of the convict road force in the construction and maintenance of the State highway system
Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Prisons, Transportation

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 889 of the Code of ‘s err
Agriculture

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1923, relating to the clerk of the circuit court of the city of Lynchburg.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 46

An ACT to prohibit the taking, catching or killing of fish in the waters of the Dan river or its tributaries or any lake or pond formed thereby or the backwaters thereof in any manner, except angling, within Pittsylvania county and the corporate limits of the city of Danville, during the spawning season, from March first to June fifteenth, inclusive, and to provide penalties for the violation hereof.
Fishing

Chapter 47

An ACT to prohibit the killing of ring-necked pheasants in the counties of Frederick and Clarke, for a period of four years, and providing Meee ment for violations.
Hunting

Chapter 48

An ACT designating that part of primary road number 17 of the State highway system from Gordonsville to Harrisonburg as The ‘Spotswood Trail.”
Transportation

Chapter 49

An ACT to validate, approve and confirm the transfer and conveyance from the county of Clarke to the Commonwealth of Virginia, heretofore made by resolutions of the board of supervisors of Clarke county, of the bridge over the Shenandoah river at Castleman’s ferry
Transportation

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3329 of the Code of Virginia in relation to hunting licenses.
Hunting

Chapter 51

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to issue time warrants for an amount not exceeding $20,000.00, for a period of not exceeding four years.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 52

An ACT to permit the board of visitors of the Virginia school for the deaf and the blind to sell and convey an easement or right of way for electric transmission lines, including a telephone line, over and across certain lands belonging to said school.
Utilities, Education

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22 and 25 of an act entitled,‘‘An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town (now the city) of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, approved March 24 1920,’’ approved March 4, 1922.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 54

An ACT to prohibit the killing of pheasants and Hungarian partridge in Sussex, Surry, Prince George and Greensville counties, Virginia, and providing punishment for violations.
Hunting

Chapter 55

An ACT authorizing the city of Fredericksburg to issue bonds to redeem what are known as her high school bonds.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 56

An ACT to release unto G. B. Morehead all the right, title and interest of the public in certain real estate in the town of Wytheville.
Property, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2403 of the Code of Meares
Taxation, Property

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5343 of the Code of YS S133
Children -- Institutional care, Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Property

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act approved March 20, 1923, entitled ‘‘An act to authorize, empower, and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk to borrow money, by the issuance of bonds, a sum not to exceed seven hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing, building, and improving roads and bridges in said county; to sell said bonds; to provide for their payment, and to authorize the commission of roads and bridges for said county to dispense the funds so obtained.”’
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6020 of the Code of vee.
Judicial, Business, Public officers

Chapter 61

An ACT to validate certain certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken by commissioners of deeds appointed by Governors of States other than the Governor of the State of Virginia.
Property

Chapter 62

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109, chapter 11, of the mode of Virginia.
Amendments, Voting, Public officers, Equality before the law

Chapter 63

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5321 of the Code of Virginia
Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5161 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1923.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Property, Judicial

Chapter 65

An ACT to amend section 780 of the Code of Virginia.
Education

Chapter 66

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4362, chapter 176 of the Code of Virginia of 1919 in reference to the exercise of the power of eminent eels
Property, Utilities

Chapter 67

An ACT to amend and re-enact clause or sub-section (f) of section 6253 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6252 of the Code of Virginia of 1919
Judicial

Chapter 69

An ACT designating that part of route number 12 of the State highway system from Portsmouth to North Carolina line as ‘‘George Washington highway.”’
Transportation, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 70

An ACT to confer upon the State corporation commission jurisdiction and to impose upon it the duty to prescribe and enforce rates of pilotage and other charges to be observed in the business of pilotage and to prem the procedure.
Business, Transportation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 71

An ACT sathorting te town of Colonial Beach in Westmoreland county to convey to Frank Blackistone upon certain conditions a certain street within its corporate limits.
Property

Chapter 72

An ACT to legalize, validate and confirm a certain ordinance of the city of Charlottesville enacted March 5, 1923, and a certain election held in the said city of Charlottesville, April 10, 1923, both of which relate to the negotiation of a city loan not exceeding three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars ($315,000.00) and to the issuance by the city of coupon bonds therefor and to legalize, validate and confirm all other proceedings of the said city, its officials and agents, relating to said loan and to said bond issue and to authorize the mayor and council of the city to proceed to issue and to sell such bonds to the amount of three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars ($315,000.00), for the following municipal purposes: Two hundred and ninety thousand dollars ($290,000.00) for public school expansion and improvement and twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) for the improvement of the armory; and to declare said bonds, when executed, valid and binding obligations of the city of Charlottesville.
Bonds, Budget, Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 73

An ACT to amend and re-enact, and to change the numerical order of sections 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45 of an act approved March 10, 1908, providing a charter for the city of Portsmouth, and the acts amendatory thereof, relating to the lien of the city for taxes assessed on real estate, can to the sale thereof for the non-payment of taxes.
Amendments, Property, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 74

An ACT to provide for the holding of elections in the school districts of Henrico county, Virginia, on the question of the issuance of bonds for the purpose of acquiring buildings and building sites, and erecting or repairing and furnishing school buildings in such districts; to provide for the issuance and sale of said bonds in accordance with said elections; and to provide for the levying of a tax for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof at ears
Budget, Education, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 75

An ACT to provide for the holding of an election in the county of Craig, on the question of the issuance of bonds not in excess of $25,000.00 for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, improving and furnishing school buildings and for acquiring sites for school buildings in such county; to provide for the issuance and sale of said bonds in accordance with said election; and to provide for levying a tax for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal at maturity.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 76

An ACT to validate the issuance of $14,500 of road and street improvement bonds of the town of Clarksville, Virginia.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 77

An ACT to provide for the issuance of bonds aby Henrico county for the purpose of opening, widening, ving the publi re-constructing, macadamizing, or otherwise permanently improving the public roads and penigea in the magis-
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Voting

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18-a, 19, 19-k, 19-n and 37, of the charter of the city of Richmond, as the same may have been heretofore amended.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers, Pensions, Agriculture

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act ‘to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30; 1875, as heretofore amended
Incorporation, Boundaries, Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Alcohol, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 80

An ACT authorizing the county school board of Highland county to borrow money for the purpose of paying the existing indebtedness of Monterey school district of said county, and to issue its bonds therefor, and to require the board of supervisors to levy a tax to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Education, Debt, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 81

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Culpeper to employ a superintendent of roads for the districts of Catalpa, Cedar Mountain, Jefferson and Stevensburg, in said county; to prescribe the powers and duties of such superintendent, and to authorize the levy of a tax in said districts to pay the expenses incident to the employment of such superintendent.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter III of an act entitled An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Amendments, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled ‘an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, approved July 9, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 7, 1894.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Business

Chapter 84

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 23-a, empowering the council of the city of Portsmouth to prescribe rules and regulations concerning the rivers in said city, and authorizing the appointment of a harbor master.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 85

An act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled, An act to provide a road commission for Franktown magisterial district, in Northampton county, and to repeal previous acts
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 86

An ACT to authorize the town of Norton to exchange a part of the land covered by Seventh street in said town, with Greever Motor Sales, Incorporated, for apart of its land that is now being occupied by the street and sidewalk on said Seventh street.
Property, Municipal charters, Business

Chapter 87

An ACT to enable the town of Virginia Beach, in Princess Anne county, Virginia, to contract with the city of Norfolk for an adequate water supply authorizing said town and said city to sell water to consumers in the county of Princess Anne, and authorizing the said town to levy a special tax on real estate and personal property for a period of ten years for the purpose of raising funds to pay interest upon the cost of constructing a pipe line from Moore’s bridge, in Princess Anne county, to the corporate limits of the town of Virginia Beach.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, and by an act approved February 11, 1922.
Prisons, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 89

An ACT to repeal section 23. of ‘an ants , entitled an: act to amend. the charter of the town of Big Stone. Gap. anu, to. legalize certain acts of the-town
Municipal charters

Chapter 90

An Act to protect fish in the Tye river and its tributaries and in the Rockfish river and its tributaries in the county of Nelson.
Fishing

Chapter 91

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to issue bonds or other obligations of said county on behalf of Gladeville magisterial district thereof for a sum not exceeding $50,000, for the purpose of providing funds to be loaned the State highway commission of Virginia, to be used in the construction of that section of road in the State highway system extending 1.6 miles westwardly from the town of Norton in said district; and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof at maturity; and to authorize the State highway commission of Virginia to borrow said funds to finance the work aforesaid and to repay the same to said board of supervisors as funds are available
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 92

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads, and changing the location of existing roads
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 93

An ACT to authorize the school boards of the Waynesboro school district and of the Basic City school district in Augusta county to borrow money jointly to pay the balance of the indebtedness contracted in the completion and equipment of the new consolidated high school building, to refund certain district school warrants issued and now outstanding, and to procure funds with which to build and equip a school building for the colonel en children.
Education, Public expenditures, Taxation, Bonds

Chapter 94

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of Rappahannock Fauquier and Loudoun counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 95

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Floyd county to expend any balance remaining unexpended of money derived from the sale of bonds authorized by an act approved March 24, 1920; and to ratify and confirm any expenditures made, or acts performed by said board since the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-three.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 96

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 77 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.
Budget, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 97

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Page county to issue time warrants for a sum not exceeding $10,000, and to provide for the cashing of same.
Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 98

An ACT to prohibit the hunting, shooting or trapping of ring-necked pheasants in Fauquier county between November 1, 1924, and November 1, 1929.
Hunting

Chapter 99

An ACT to create the office of motor vehicle commissioner; to provide for his election, and compensation; and to transfer from the secretary of the Commonwealth to such commissioner all powers and duties heretofore conferred or imposed upon the former by the laws concerning motor vehicles and the taxes on motor vehicle fuels, and to invest the commissioner and his assistants with the powers of a sheriff for the purpose of enforcing EE ni
Transportation, Public officers, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 100

An ACT for the protection of foxes in the counties of Henry, Madison, Orange, Tazewell and Pittsylvania.
Hunting
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