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1924

Laws in Volume
Displaying 401 - 485 of 485

Chapter 401

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 4 and 7 of section 3299 of the Code of Virginia, sub-section 4 of which was amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1922, which section is in chapter 129 of the said Code on the subject of Potomac river statutes.
Fishing

Chapter 402

An ACT to reimburse George W. Richardson for a certain sum improperly paid into the treasury of the State of Virginia.
Public expenditures, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 403

An ACT for the protection ot black bass in the county of Frederick.
Fishing

Chapter 404

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3292 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 15, 1922.
Fishing

Chapter 405

An ACT to create a war memorial commission; to prescribe the powers and duties of the commission; to provide tor the erection of a memorial of a monumental or non-utilitarian type to the patriotism and valor of the soldiers, sailors, marines, and women from Virginia who served in the World War; and to appropriate moneys to carry out the provisions of this SB 03
Monuments and memorials, Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 406

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2248, 2249, 2254, 2265, 2271, 2285 and 2337 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, and to repeal Code sections 2299 and 2340 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended with regard to duties of local boards of review.
Amendments, Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 407

An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search there- for and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to make it an offense to operate an automobile, engine, or other motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of liquor, and to prescribe penalties therefor; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 345 of acts of assembly, 1922, approved March 23, 1922, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
Alcohol, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 408

An ACT making it larceny to receive money or other thing of value with intent to injure or defraud, from anv person engaged in the cultivation of the soil, under a contract of employment for personal service, and fraudu-<br />lently refuse or fail to perform such service or refund such money or other thing of value so received.
Agriculture, Employment and labor

Chapter 409

An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising
Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 410

An ACT to establish and maintain a free employment bureau
Employment and labor, Business, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 411

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4781 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 412

An ACT allowing cash deposits in lieu of recognizances with surety
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 413

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6443 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 414

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4828 of the Code of Yep orl
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 415

An ACT relating to the practice of law, and preventing persons, firms and corporations, not practicing attorneys, from appearing before any magistrate, civil or police justice, civil justice court, or any other court, to represent any claim or cause of any person, firm or corporation, unless the person, firm or corporation has a property interest in said claim or cause; preventing evasions of this act and crexeribing penalties.
Lawyers, Judicial, Business, Civil Rights

Chapter 416

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2757 of the Code of Virginia.
Public expenditures, Utilities, Property

Chapter 417

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3813 of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Judicial, Bonds

Chapter 418

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5986 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of jury commissioners.
Judicial

Chapter 419

An ACT to establish a school for the blind white children of Virginia of school age, whose parents or guardians are citizens of Virginia, to be known as the Virginia School for the Blind.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Civil Rights

Chapter 420

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 203 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 15, 1920, and March 28, 1922, and sections 205 to 210, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 421

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2995, 2998 and 2999 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Public officers

Chapter 422

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more, approved March 2, 1922, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 29, 1923.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 423

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 154, 236 and 238 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 424

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 158 of the Code of Virginia, with reference to the duties of the electoral board, its seal, and the stamping and delivery of the ballots.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 425

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 202, of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, which section is in chapter 14 of the said Code relating to absent voters.
Voting

Chapter 426

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties, and for the regulation of traffic thereon.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Employment and labor, Wildlife, Healthcare, Agriculture, Education, Civil Rights, Cemeteries, Public spaces, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Pensions, Recreation, Taxation, Property

Chapter 427

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 148 of the Code of Virginia.
Voting, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 428

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to ballots.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 429

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 892 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 10, 1922.
Agriculture, Property, Taxation

Chapter 430

An ACT to simplify and prevent duplication of work and to reduce the cost of the preparation of a transcript of the record and proceedings to accompany a petition for a writ of error or appeal or supersedeas from or to the supreme court of appeals to or from any judgment, decree, or order of any court of record, and to provide for payment therefor.
Judicial

Chapter 431

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2146 of the Code. of Virginia as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Property, Judicial

Chapter 432

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1822 of the Code of Virginia,
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 433

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia
Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 434

An ACT relating to deeds of assignment for the benefit of creditors, and prescribing certain requirements to be complied with.
Debt, Business, Property

Chapter 435

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 6429-a, so as to provide, in the mechanics’ lien law, how the owner or general contractor may be made personally liable to subcontractors, laborers, or material men.
Amendments, Labor, Business, Property

Chapter 436

An ACT to validate substitutions of trustees under deeds recorded in Virginia heretofore made in the courts of Virginia without sufficient notice or without any notice to some one or more of the persons interested in the trusts
Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 437

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3106 and 6027 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appeals from justices, the former section having been amended by an act approved March 27, 1922.
Judicial, Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 438

An ACT to prevent and punish fraud in the procurement of a certificate, license, or permit, from a State board, or other body, charged with the duty of examining persons desiring to engage in or practice certain businesses or professions.
Business

Chapter 439

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the completion of the publication, binding and distribution of the Code of Virginia, approved March 19, 1920.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 440

An ACT to require all officers collecting or receiving money to be applied on any execution or other legal process or claim to give notice thereof within thirty days to the person entitled to receive the said money; and to provide penalty for failure to give such notice.
Judicial, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 441

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-nine hundred and fifty-six and section twenty-nine hundred and fifty-seven of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section twenty-nine hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920.
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 442

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5220 of the Code of Tee ea
Amendments, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 443

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4414 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved February 28, 1918.

Chapter 444

An ACT for the protection and promotion of the bee industry; to segregate bees for State taxation only; to levy a tax on bees, and to provide for the disposition of the revenue raised by the same.
Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 445

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3011 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 446

An ACT designating that part of the State highway system from Old Point, through Newport News and Williamsburg, to Richmond, as the ‘Pocahontas Trail.’
Transportation, Indigenous peoples, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 447

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to anticipate by counties or otherwise the construction of the State highway system
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 448

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 5, 7 and 10 of an act entitled an act to create a State highway commission; to provide for a chairman thereof; and to prescribe the powers, duties and the compensation of the commission and chairman; and to provide for a State highway commissioner; to create road construction districts; to provide for the apportionment among them of road construction funds, and to provide for road construction, improvement, maintenance and preservation, also to repeal sections 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1975 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission; to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commission to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906; to provide for the appointment of a commission, and fixing their term of office; to give to said commission the power of eminent domain, the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the traffic and use of the State highway system, not in conflict with the laws of this State and to prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations, approved September 5, 1919, and to repeal all other sections of the Code and acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved Maren 7B Me
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 449

An ACT to authorize the State highway commission to expend, out of the funds allocated for the construction of the State highway system, such sum of money as may be necessary for the purpose of purchasing ferries, equipment and other things necessary for the operation of ferries connecting State highways; and to provide for the collection and disposition of ferriage.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 450

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1984 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the alteration and discontinuance of county roads, and for an appeal.
Transportation

Chapter 451

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2546 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922, and as further amended by act approved March 23, 1923, in relation to official receipts for fines.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Debt

Chapter 452

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended.
Labor, Employment and labor, Pensions, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 453

An ACT to authorize the State highway commission to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or gift, ferries which are connecting links in the State highway system, and to operate or lease the same.
Transportation

Chapter 454

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920, entitled an act to amend section 2726 of the Code of Virginia, and as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922.
Amendments, Public officers, Salaries, Budget

Chapter 455

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2698 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922.
Bonds, Public officers, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 456

An ACT to amend an act entitled an jact to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894, approved February 1, 1915, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-b, and to amend and re-enact section 4 of the said act, as heretofore amended.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 457

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1498 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 63 of the said Code, on the subject of the State board of health and local boards.
Healthcare

Chapter 458

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1922.
Amendments, Budget, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 459

An ACT to provide for the payment of $3,052.00 to C. W. Coleman, judge of the first judicial circuit, for mileage and traveling expenses, as provided by law.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Salaries

Chapter 460

An ACT to protect the health of the inhabitants of cities and incorporated towns and to protect their property against fire by requiring public service corporations engaged in the business of furnishing water or sewerage facilities to such cities and towns or their inhabitants, to provide at a reasonable charge an adequate supply and service and to make such extensions of service as may be necessary for the protection of the health of such inhabitants and to provide for the enforcement of such public duties where such public service corporations are unable or shall fail or refuse to perform the same.
Utilities

Chapter 461

An ACT to define, regulate, and license real estate brokers and real estate salesmen; to create a State real estate commission; and to provide a penalty for a violation of the provisions hereof.
Business, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 462

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2154 of the Code of Virginia
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 463

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a population of thirty thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices, approved March 24, 1922; and to bring within the terms of the said act all counties of the Commonwealth having a population of 30,000 or more.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 464

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1662, 1664, 1665, 1670, 1673, 1674, 1678, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, and 1687, and to repeal section 1689 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections relate to the practice of arae
Healthcare, Business, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 465

An ACT to regulate the disposal of human waste or excreta within the Commonwealth of Virginia and to provide penalties.
Recreation

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same and to prescribe penalties
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 467

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1738, 1739, 1744, 1752, 1753, 1764, 1771, 1775 and 1778 of the Code of Virginia relating to drain districts,
Amendments, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 468

An ACT to provide for the recordation of plats of subdivision of land located in or within five miles of cities of a population in excess of 150, according to the last United States census, for the vacation thereof, for the construction of public improvements therein and for the rights of such cities in connection therewith.
Property, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 469

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (i) of section 4148 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Property

Chapter 470

An ACT to provide for additional methods for purging the registration
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 471

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2417 of the Code of Virginia
Taxation, Public officers, Budget, Property

Chapter 472

An ACT to provide that in certain cases it shall be prima facie presumed that no minerals, coals, oils, or ores exist in or on certain lands situated in the non-mountainous regions of this Commonwealth, having an elevation not in excess of six hundred feet above sea level, and for the extinguishment in certain cases of the claim to undiscovered or exhausted minerals, coals, oils or ores in such land.
Property, Industry

Chapter 473

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Civil Rights, Judicial, Property, Pensions, Education, Law Enforcement, Utilities, Public spaces

Chapter 474

An ACT to repeal sections 3355, 3357, 3358, 3359, 3360 and 3364 of the Code of Virginia in relation to hunting and trapping game and to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of certain kinds of game birds and to regulate the killing, injuring, destruction and capture of same, approved March 4, 1920, and an act entitled an act to prohibit the baiting of wild turkeys in this State for the purpose of killing or capturing same, approved February 11, 1922, and an act entitled an act to make it unlawful to destroy or disturb the nests of wild turkeys in this Commonwealth, approved March 15, 1922, and an act entitled an act to regulate the shooting of wild waterfowl in this State approved February 11, 1922, and an act entitled an act to prohibit the sale of deer in this State, approved March 27, 1922, and to amend and re-enact section 3356 of the Code of Virginia in relation to hunting game, and to provide a more uniform season therefor.
Hunting, Wildlife, Public expenditures

Chapter 475

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 666 of the Code of Virginia relating to appeals from school boards.
Education, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 476

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1845, 1847, 1872, 1876, 1879, 1882 and 1887 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 477

An ACT to provide for the inspection and to regulate the distribution of gasoline, naphtha, benzine, and other liquids and fluids used, or intended to be used, for power purposes; and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act
Agriculture, Business, Utilities, Property, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 478

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4896 and 5999 of the ER
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 479

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Franklin county to pay to C. P. Guilliams a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars to compensate him for certain losses.
Public expenditures, Property, Judicial

Chapter 480

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4797 and 4800 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are contained in chapter 189 of the said Code, on preventing the commission of crimes.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 481

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3504 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to fees of certain officers.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 482

An ACT to make uniform the law of transfer of shares of stock in corporations.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 483

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 22 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Voting, Civil Rights, Confederate

Chapter 484

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 186 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Taxation, Confederate

Chapter 485

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 170 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Amendments, Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Business
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