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1928

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 400 of 521

Chapter 307

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to enact an ordinance requiring building permits for the construction, repair or improvement of certain buildings located in subdivisions of land, and to prescribe penalties.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 308

An ACT for the protection of all fur-bearing animals in the county of Halifax
Wildlife, Hunting, Amendments, Property

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered section 36a, in relation to personal exemptions allowed under the income tax law.
Taxation

Chapter 310

An ACT to prohibit the killing of ring-necked pheasants in the counties of Frederick and Clarke for a period of five years and providing punishment for violations.
Hunting, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 312

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Franklin county to appoint special policemen for said county; to prescribe their compensation, and terms of office, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, insofar as they apply to the county of Franklin.
Law Enforcement, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 313

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3067, 3070 and 3071 of the Code of Virginia, relating to assessments for local improvements.
Amendments, Budget, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 314

An ACT to provide for levying and collecting a special school tax in Wythe and Chesapeake magisterial districts in the county of Elizabeth City, after the same shall have been authorized by the people, by an election to be held for the purpose and to prescribe how the funds raised by such tax shall be used and expended.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 315

An ACT to authorize payment of bill for lighting equipment installed in the hall of the house of delegates and the senate chamber, in the capitol building.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 316

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19, 20, 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk, and to repeal the existing charter of sail city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14 908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 13, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, March 25, 1914, February §, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk, approved February 7, 1918.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 317

An ACT to authorize the town of Ashland, Virginia, to issue bonds
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 318

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 188a, in relation to merchants’ licenses.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 319

An ACT to provide under what circumstances the council of the city of Danville shall sell, lease or grant and convey the electric, gas or water works or plants with their distributing systems and their necessarily appurtenant franchises and rights, which are the property of the city.
Utilities

Chapter 320

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to levy additional taxes for the benefit of the public schools in said county, the several magisterial districts and incorporated towns therein, and authorizing the school board to borrow money for saicd* purpose.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 321

An ACT to provide for a special police force for the county of Fairfax, appointment and compensation.
Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Employment and labor

Chapter 322

An ACT fixing the annual compensation of the board of supervisors
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 324

An ACT to repeal chapter 252 of the acts of assembly of 1884, entitled ‘an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland,” and all acts amendatory thereof, in so far as the same applies to the county of Powhatan, the same not to become effec- tive until approved by the people in an election to be held for the purpose.
Repeal of legislation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 325

An ACT to provide for the payment of four hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents ($412.50) to Mary A. Sullivan to reimburse her for
Property

Chapter 326

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fredericksburg.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 327

An ACT to authorize a school census in the city of Hopewell, Virginia, to be in lieu of the regular quinquennial census taken in said city in 1925.
Education

Chapter 328

An ACT to authorize the granting of an easement to the Virginia Public Service Company over certain lands of the Commonwealth in Albemarle county.
Utilities

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact article 3 of section 3, and section 6, and article 8 of section 8, and articles 1, 2, 5, 9, 10 and 13 of section 9 and article 11 of section 10 and article 13 of section 11 of an act entitled an act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town sof Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers, approved March 24, 1920.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 330

An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Stafford county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint a resident of the city of Fredericksburg as commissioner in chancery for the circuit court of Stafford county.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly approved April 11, 1927, entitled an act to provide for the relief of volunteer firemen killed or injured while engaged in fighting fires or in going to or returning therefrom in Arlington county and the city of Alexandria.
Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 31 of the acts of the general
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 and section 47 of an act entitled, 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, approved March 22, 1924, subsection 10 of section two of which as amended, and subsection 11 of section two of which, as amended.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Death and burial, Debt, Education, Healthcare, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 334

An ACT to regulate setting of water fowl blinds in the waters of the counties of King George, Stafford, Prince William and Fairfax
Hunting

Chapter 335

An ACT to authorize the chairman of the special board of directors of the Western State Hospital to convey to the city of Staunton certain lands for street purposes.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Healthcare, Municipal charters

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 12, 19c, 19e, 62, 64, 65 and 78 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Rich-
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Utilities, Property, Legislative Amendments, Cemeteries, Transportation, Business

Chapter 337

An ACT to amend and re-enact the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section 18514, relating to license tax on dealers in carload lots of horses.
Agriculture, Taxation, Business

Chapter 338

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Luray, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Budget, Property, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 339

An ACT to designate the commencement of the terms of court of the twenty-third judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 340

An ACT to grant the James River Bridge Corporation the right to open a temporary construction channel across the shoals on the north and south sides of the main ship channel, of James river, near its mouth, to facilitate the construction of its bridge, authority for which was granted by the general assembly of Virginia by its act, approved April 8, 1927.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 303 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to permit females to qualify, give bond, and act as deputy clerks, in all the courts of this Commonwealth; and to validate certain acts heretofore performed by females acting as such deputy clerks,” approved March 19, 1920.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Employment and labor

Chapter 342

An ACT to validate the issuance of twenty-five thousand dollars of bonds for the installation of a water supply system in the town of Stephens City, Virginia.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 343

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Judicial, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public spaces, Healthcare, Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law), Education, Cemeteries, Recreation

Chapter 344

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Scott county to issue bonds of Scott county to refund outstanding bonds of said county issued on behalf of Estillville magisterial district, and to authorize the levy of a tax for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, and to validate said outstanding bonds.
Bonds, Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 345

An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money, not in excess of $60,000.00, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, for the purpose of surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges, and for the completion of certain contracts for the surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges in Sulphur Springs magisterial district of said county, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 346

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, to borrow a sum of money, not in excess of $40,000.00, and to issue bonds of said town therefor, for the purpose of acquiring property, if necessary, and constructing a water system or sewerage system, or both; and to provide for the payment of the interest on said bonds, and the redemption of the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Voting

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Shenandoah, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, approved March 17, 1926, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 5a.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 348

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Fluvanna county to levy an additional capitation tax, which shall be applied in aid of the public schools of the said county, or for such other county purposes as the said board shall determine.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 349

An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to borrow a sum of money not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) and issue bonds therefor, to cover the cost of addition to the high school building in said city.
Bonds, Education, Budget

Chapter 350

An ACT to provide for placing ferries across New river, in the counties of Grayson and Carroll, which are parts of public county roads, under the supervision and control of the boards of supervisors of said counties, and to provide penalties for failure to comply with the orders of said boards with reference thereto.
Transportation

Chapter 351

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Grayson to borrow a sum of money, not in excess of $6,000.00, in behalf of Wilson magisterial district, and to issue bonds of said county therefor, for the purpose of constructing the road in Wilson magisterial district recently surveyed from White Top to connect with route No. 12, at a point near Grant, via Cabin Creek, Helton and Rugby, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 352

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $39,000.00, and to issue bonds therefor for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in Elk Creek and Providence magisterial districts of said county; to provide for the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issues; to employ a competent road engineer, whose selection shall be approved by the chairman of the State highway commission, to make plans and specifications of all roads and bridges thereon, to be built or permanently improved from the proceeds of such bond issues, and to supervise the building of same; to employ and pay for the labor for construction of the roads mentioned; 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 purpose of this act; and to declare an emergency.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 353

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money, not in excess of $75,000.00, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, for the purpose of surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges, for Piper's Gap magisterial district of said county, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 412 of the acts of the general assembly of 1922, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock 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 Woodstock and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid, approved March 24, 1922, relating to the public schools of said town, as amended.
Amendments, Budget, Education, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property, Utilities, Taxation, Salaries, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Labor, Civil Rights, Voting, Death and burial

Chapter 355

An ACT to declare the lot of land on which is located the courthouse of Surry county, in the village of Surry, a part of each of the three magisterial districts of said county of Surry.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 356

An ACT to authorize the school board of Loudoun county, with the approval of the board of supervisors of Loudoun county, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $55,400.00, on account of Mercer, Leesburg and Mt. Gilead school districts of said county, and to issue bonds theretor, and provicie for the levying of a tax to pay the interest. and te create a sinking tund for the redemption of the principal of said bonds at their maturity.
Budget, Bonds, Education, Taxation, Property

Chapter 357

An ACT to authorize the clerk of the State corporation commission to collect, receive and receipt for all charter fees required of domestic corporations and all entrance fees required of foreign corporations, and to make and file a duplicate copy of such receipt in lieu of any certificate now required to be made as to such payments.
Business

Chapter 358

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money, not in excess of $75,000.00, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, for the purpose of surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges, for Laurel Fork magisterial district of said county, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 359

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to borrow money, not in excess of $15,000.00, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, for the purpose of surveying, constructing, repairing and improving certain roads and bridges, for Fancy Gap magisterial district of said county, and to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 360

An ACT to provide for submitting to the qualified voters of the town of Potomac, in Arlington county, the question of annulling the charter of said town by repealing an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Potomac, in the county of Alexandria; and to annul and repeal said charter upon a majority vote declaring against said charter, and for the assumption of all the obligations of the town of Potomac, by Jefferson magisterial district of said county.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 361

An ACT to authorize and empower Henrico Lumber Company, Incorporated, to construct a temporary bridge across the Pamunkey river, between the counties of King William and Hanover, for private use between the lands of John W. Atkinson and George P. Haw.
Transportation, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 362

An ACT to validate certain judgments rendered upon pleadings which failed to contain certain allegations as to the assessment for taxation, of the bonds, notes and other evidences of debt sued on; and to protect the title to lands sold under deeds of trust, where the holder of the notes secured by the deed of trust, had not listed same for taxation.
Taxation, Bonds, Debt, Property

Chapter 363

An ACT to provide for a commission to study the condition of the farmers of Virginia, to prescribe the powers and duties of said commission, and to make an appropriation to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
Agriculture

Chapter 364

An ACT to create “the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Norfolk county bridge authority,” and to define the powers and duties of such authority.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 365

An ACT to prohibit hazing at any school, college or university receiving State appropriations in this State, and to provide punishment and civil liability therefor.
Education, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 366

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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, approved March 16, 1920.
Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 367

An ACT to create Arlington sanitary district, which shall include the entire county of Arlington; to create the “Arlington board of public works,” to define the powers and duties of said board; to invest said board with the power of eminent domain; to provide for the division of said sanitary district into zones, or sections; to provide for the purchase, construction, maintenance, operation and control of drainage and sewerage systems and sewerage disposal plants or works: for the construction of sidewalks: for the issuance of bonds to raise funds for such purposes; for the assessment of abutting property owners with certain amounts to be used in the construction and use of sewers and sidewalks; for the fixing and regulation of service and other charges for the connection with and use of sewers; for the pay of members, officers and employees; to prescribe penalties for violations: and to repeal chapter 260 of the acts of assembly of 1922, page 445, and chapter 463 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 754, chapter 315 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 531, and chapter 294 of the acts of assembly of 1926, page 510, in so far as it is applicable to the county of Arlington, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities, Bonds, Public officers, Taxation, Property

Chapter 368

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide whole family protection for members of fraternal benefit societies
Amendments, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Fraternal organizations, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 369

An ACT to provide that the heads of the tax-supported institutions of higher learning shall confer with each other, with the rectors or chairmen of the governing boards of said institutions, with the State superintendent of public instruction and the State board of education under the direction of the governor, for the purpose of preparing a plan eliminating unnecessary duplication, defining the educational scope and activity of each institution and means for future coordination; to provide for the elimination of certain courses and to prevent future duplication.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 370

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.
Public officers, Transportation, Budget, Employment and labor, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 371

An ACT vesting in the State commission on conservation and development power to acquire Jands, in the Blue Ridge area of Virginia, and buildings and other improvements thereon, and any estate or interest therein, for use as a public park or for public park purposes, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, or by gift, devise, purchase or other lawful means for the transfer of title; providing for the conveyance or transfer of title to and jurisdiction over lands thus acquired to the United States of America, upon prescribed terms and conditions, for use as a public park or for public park purposes; and expressly repealing subsections (d), (e) and (f) of section thirteen (13) of an act approved March 17, 1926, entitled an act to create a State commission on conservation and development.
Public spaces

Chapter 372

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind to sell and convey certain land belonging to said school.
Education, Property, Public officers

Chapter 373

An ACT to provide a portrait of former Governor Andrew Jackson Montague to be placed in the State library.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 374

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of chapter 407 of the acts of the general assembly of 1924, page 593, approved March 20, 1924, concerning intoxicating liquors, as amended in chapter 231 of the acts of the general assembly of 1926, page 417, approved March 23, 1926.
Alcohol, Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Property, Gambling

Chapter 375

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $15,000.00 from any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to be used to aid in the construction of a wharf and walk at Jamestown Island.
Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 376

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 Virginia, approved February 26, 1924, so as to include notaries public appointed by the governor of Virginia, approved March 6, 1926, so as to include notaries public of States other than Virginia.
Amendments, Business, Property, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 377

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, Charity, Confederate, Public expenditures, Death and burial

Chapter 378

An ACT to amend, extend and re-enact an act approved March 21. 1924, entitled “an act to validate substitutions of trustees under deeds tecorded 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 of such deeds, and to validate acts done by such substituted trustees.
Property, Amendments

Chapter 379

An ACT to authorize the board of visitors of R. E. Lee Camp, Soldiers Home, to renew a certain note for ten thousand dollars.
Armed forces, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 380

An ACT to appropriate $5,000.00 to defray the cost of publishing the manuscripts edited by the Virginia war history commission and for indexing the same.
Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 381

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6501 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, as heretofore amended, in relation to notice of lien by judgment and to provide for damages for serving notice when no judgment or lien exists.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 382

An ACT to make certain appropriations from the general funds of the State treasury, to the State board of health, to be used at the Medical College of Virginia for the treatment of orthopedic cases.
Healthcare, Budget

Chapter 383

An ACT to provide for the acceptance by the board of the Virginia teachers colleges, of gifts, donations and benefactions offered by any person,
Education, Public officers, Charity

Chapter 384

An ACT to provide for the relief of volunteer firemen killed or injured while engaged in fighting fires or in going to or returning i’ 343
Fire fighters, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 385

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3777 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of corporations, as amended by an act, approved March 27, 1922.
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 386

An ACT to authorize the registration of bonds by counties and cities, and to provide for the delivery of such bonds when the officers signing the same are no longer in office.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 387

An ACT to provide for the erection of a monument to commemorate the distinguished service of the Major General Fitzhugh Lee to the United States, the Confederate States, the Republic of Cuba and the State of Virginia.
Monuments and memorials, Confederate, Public expenditures

Chapter 388

An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of chapter 407 of the acts
Alcohol, Healthcare, Education, Employment and labor

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be designated as section 1050a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of trustees for ex-service persons found
Armed forces, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 390

An ACT to provide for the appointment of an official reporter for the thirty-first judicial circuit and prescribing his powers and duties.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph fourth of section 3195 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unlawful fishing.
Fishing

Chapter 392

An ACT to provide for the protection of wild water fowl in the public waters of Back bay and its tributaries and North Landing river, and along the shores thereof, in the county of Princess Anne, by prescribing the manner in which same may be killed; by regulating the number of batteries, sink boxes, mat blind rigs and other kindred devices which may be used on said waters and along the shores thereof in hunting said water fowl; by providing for the licensing of said batteries, sink boxes, mat blind rigs and other kindred devices; and by providing for the licensing of certain blinds on shore, at the option of the owners thereof.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5281 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to partitions.
Property, Judicial, Amendments, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6020 of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide that proceedings before justices, including civil justices, civil and police justices, trial justices and judges of mayoralty courts, in civil cases, may also be by notice and motion.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights, Property

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and ney 165
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4830, 4831, 4833, and 4834 of the Code of Virginia, and section 4835 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 231 of the acts of assembly of 1922, page 417, all relating to bail and authorizing clerks of courts of record to admit to bail.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 397

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 202, 203, 205 and 208 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to absent voters.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 398

An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraphs third and sixth of section 3356 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unlawful hunting and possession of game and other birds and animals.
Hunting, Wildlife, Transportation

Chapter 399

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 17, 18, 21, 25, 34, 39, 42, 56%2, and 73 of chapter 474 of the acts of 1926, entitled an act to regulate the operation of vehicles on, public highways, to govern and protect pedestrians while using such highways, to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, approved March 25, 1926, and to repeal section 57 of said chapter 474 of the acts of 1926, approved March 25, 1926.
Amendments, Transportation, Public spaces, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 413 of the acts of 1926, entitled an act to prescribe the open and closed seasons for partridge and deer in the county of Dinwiddie
Hunting

Chapter 401

An ACT declaring it larceny for any maker or drawer, with intent to defraud, to make or draw or utter or deliver any check, draft, or order, when such person has not sufficient funds in, or credit with the depository upon which the same is drawn; prescribing penalties for the violation thereof; and making certain provisions in relation to the admissibility of evidence in civil cases respecting collateral agreements, statements or representations as to said draft, check or order, growing out of arrest under this act, to repeal an act entitled an act to make it larceny to obtain, with fraudulent intent money or other property or credit by means of a check, draft or order, and to make a failure to have on deposit, or to the credit of the maker or drawer thereof with the bank, person, firm or corporation on which such check, draft or order is drawn, sufficient funds to pay the same in full when presented prima facie evidence of fraudulent intent, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and an act entitled an act declaring it a misdemeanor for any maker or drawer, with intent to defraud, to make or draw or utter or deliver any check, draft, or order, when such person has not sufficient funds in, or credit with the depository upon which the same is drawn, and making certain provisions in relation to the admissibility of evidence in civil cases respecting collateral agreements, statements, or representations as to draft, check or order, growing out of arrest under this act, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.
Business, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 402

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4818 of the Code of Virginia, relating to coroners’ and constables’ fees.
Coroner, Dead bodies (Law), Judicial

Chapter 403

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dams, et cetera; to be provided with suitable fishway.
Fishing, Property, Wildlife

Chapter 404

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 434 of the acts of 1922, providing for exceptions from jury service.
Judicial, Labor, Employment and labor

Chapter 405

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the compensation of judges.
Judicial, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 406

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. T. FE. Allen and Miss Clara Allen.
Alcohol, Public expenditures, Taxation, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 410

An ACT providing the form and mode of procedure, and furnishing a system of procedure for the condemnation of lands and buildings and other improvements thereon, or of any estate or interest therein, for use as a public park or for public park purposes
Property, Public spaces, Cemeteries, Public expenditures

Chapter 411

An ACT to amend chapter 248 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 5960-a relating to the authority of the court of appeals to prescribe forms and regulate the practice of the courts.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments
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