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1934

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 406

Chapter 203

An ACT to provide for the protection of foxes in the county of Franklin, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Hunting

Chapter 204

An ACT to repeal section 4988-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to removals to court in misdemeanor cases triable by a justice of the peace.
Repeal of legislation, Judicial

Chapter 205

An ACT to authorize and empower the town of Norton, to convey to Dave Doby and Ada Doby all its right, title and interest in a certain part of the land included in the old High Knob road, in exchange for a certain part of their land located in said town, and, to convey to T. P. Ford and Annie S. Ford all its right, title and interest in a certain alley located in block 30, plat No. 1, of said town, in exchange for a certain part of their land known as lot 30 in block 36 of said town.
Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 206

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Quantico in the county of Prince William.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Business, Taxation, Property, Public officers, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Healthcare, Amendments, Death and burial, Amusement, Marriage, Judicial

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the General Assembly entitled an act to provide for closing the registration books fifteen days before any special or primary election in cities of not less than 100,000, having a general registrar, approved March 23, 1923, so as to make it apply to cities of not less than 50,000 population, approved February 21, 1928.
Voting

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 209

An ACT to provide for the fixing of maximum weights of motor vehicles or combination of vehicles by the State Highway Commission; to provide for the establishment and posting of signs on highways, public bridges, causeways and viaducts; and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Transportation

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 7 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 March 24, 1922, as heretofore amended and re-enacted as to section 7 by an act approved March 21, 1924, and by an act approved April 11, 1927.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 142 thereof a new section numbered 3615-a, providing that certificates to pilots issued by the Board of Pilot Commissioners shall expire on the 31st day of December, 1934, and on the 31st day of December of each year thereafter, and providing for proration of license taxes.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 212

An ACT to validate the sale or lease by the county court, or court of monthly session, of any county, prior to the year 1860, of any land or building then owned by such county, where the consideration therefor was fully paid and possession thereof has been continuously held by the purchaser or those claiming through or under him.
Property

Chapter 213

An ACT to permit certain co-operative associations to give deeds of trust or chattel mortgages on rotating stocks of goods to secure loans from banks for co-operatives organized under the Federal Farm Credit Act of 1933
Agriculture, Business, Debt, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 214

An ACT authorizing and requiring counties having a population greater than seven hundred and fifty (750) inhabitants per square mile, as shown by the last preceding United States census, and towns lying wholly or partly within such counties under certain conditions to co-operate in the construction, maintenance, and care of a sewerage system or systems within the two jurisdictions; to prohibit the duplication of taxation for such purposes within the two areas; and to require the circuit court of such county to fix the term and conditions of such joint use, in the event of failure of the two jurisdictions to agree upon such terms and conditions.
Utilities

Chapter 215

An ACT to permit snaring certain kinds of fish in certain waters in the county of Rockingham.
Fishing

Chapter 216

An ACT to authorize the town of Lebanon to acquire for a public park and playground, a certain parcel of land lying within the corporate limits of the town and owned by Russell County Livestock and Agricultural Association, and to that end, to acquire the capital stock of said association as a step towards acquiring the legal title to said property.
Agriculture, Public spaces, Recreation, Municipal charters

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the circuit cour 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 person: appointed as such special police force, approved March 16, 1920.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 5, and section 2 of chapter 10, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended, relating to the civil justice and justices of the peace for said city.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4 and 8 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Coeburn in Wise county, Virginia, approved February 23, 1894, as heretofore amended, relating to the officers of the oe
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 220

An ACT for the relief of Agnes J. Johnston and A. J. Whalen.
Property, Taxation, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 221

An ACT for the relief of Norella J. Wood, Mary Norella Wood, James Newton Wood and John Edwin Wood.
Employment and labor, Death and burial, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 222

An ACT for the relief of J. T. Pleasants.
Alcohol, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 223

An ACT to reimburse Jessie L. Randolph for money illegally paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth of Virginia on account of erroneous or illegal assessment of taxes against her for the years nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.
Taxation, Marriage, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 224

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Mecklenburg to levy and collect district school taxes in South Hill district of the county, for the payment of existing district indebtedness, at a rate, or rates, necessary to produce funds sufficient for such purposes.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 225

An ACT to incorporate the town of Independence, in the county of Grayson.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget, Law Enforcement, Vagrancy

Chapter 226

An ACT to authorize the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to sell and convey certain portions of a tract of land in Roanoke county, known as the Fort Lewis mountain haven refuge.
Property, Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 227

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Scott county to levy a district tax of not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all the property subject to local taxation in Taylor magisterial district of said county, for the purpose of repaying money borrowed from the literary fund to build certain schools in said district.
Education, Taxation

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act requiring persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used as common carriers for the transportation of persons and/or property for compensation on the public highways of this State to obtain registration plates or markers, and prescribing and imposing certain taxes and/or license fees and/or charges and providing for the collection, payment and disposition of the same, and providing for the enforcement of this act and for punishment of violations thereof, approved March 26, 1932.
Transportation, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Waynesboro, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith
Education, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1908, providing a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 71-A, relating to the appointment of the coroner for the said city, and providing his duties and compensation.
Amendments, Coroner, Public officers

Chapter 231

An ACT to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to make loans from the literary fund to counties, cities and towns, and to authorize and empower boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies of counties, cities and towns for and on behalf of such counties, cities and towns to borrow such moneys from the State Board of Education, for the purpose of maintaining and operating the public free schools in such counties, cities and towns for terms of eight months; to provide for making such loans, the payment of the principal of and interest on the same, and the pledging of certain unpaid local levies to secure such payment; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 232

An ACT for the relief of H. B. Wilkins.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 233

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 196 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the annual State license tax on real estate agents.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 234

An ACT for the relief of W. H. Williams and Company, Incorporated, W. H. Harris Grocery Company, Incorporated, Nelson Canning Company, C. G. Reaburn, Staples Grocery Company, Incorporated, Phillips-Lewis Company, Incorporated, Curtice Brothers Company, Barrow, Penn and Company, Banner Fuel Corporation and Smokeless Fuel Corporation.
Business, Public expenditures, Agriculture, Judicial

Chapter 235

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to license provisions.
Hunting, Fishing

Chapter 236

An ACT to permit the shooting of certain kinds of fish in certain waters in the counties of Scott and Russell, during certain times, and the gigging for said fish in certain waters in Scott and Russell counties during the open season.
Fishing

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 169 thereof a new section, numbered 4248-a, prohibiting misrepresentations by insurance companies and officers, directors and agents thereof and others, and providing penalties for violations.
Business, Judicial

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections to be designated as section 3109-a and section 3118-a, providing respectively for the appointment of clerks of civil and police justices courts and for the appointment of bailiffs of civil justices courts, prescribing their duties and providing for their compensation; and to repeal section 3110 of the Code of Virginia relating to bailiffs for civil and police justices courts.
Judicial, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 239

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Staunton.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 378 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the collection of taxes and levies.
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 11, 1916, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 242

An ACT to define the rights of riparian owners, their lessees and licensees, in tiie counties of Westmoreland, Richmond, Lancaster, Northumberland and Prince George in the matter of the selection of positions for blinds from which to shoot ducks, to provide for the protection of such rights; to prescribe the distances at which such blinds may, and may not, be located from the shore line in the different waters of the Commonwealth and from the property line of other persons, the depth of water in which such blinds may be located, and the distances between blinds; to make it unlawful to erect or maintain blinds at certain places in certain waters; to provide for the issuing of licenses to erect and maintain such blinds, and to prescribe the fees to be paid therefor; and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Fishing, Hunting, Property, Public expenditures, Wildlife

Chapter 243

An ACT to amend section 3106 of the Code of Virginia, which said section is in chapter 124 of the said Code, on the subject of civil and police justices and civil justices.
Judicial, Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 244

An ACT to create the Hampton Roads Sewage Disposal Commission
Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 245

An ACT to prohibit the pollution of certain shellfish areas in the counties of Accomac and Northampton and the pollution of the waters of Chuckatuck creek in the counties of Nansemond and Isle of Wight, Urbanna creek in the county of Middlesex, Bennett creek in Nansemond county, Carter’s creek in Lancaster county, and Milford haven and its tributaries in the county of Mathews; to provide penalties for violations of the provisions of this act:
Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by enacting and incorporating therein a new section to be designated as section 4071-a, authorizing the State Corporation Commission, under certain conditions, to order a temporary reduction or increase of the rates of any public utility company doing business in this State.
Business, Noncitizens, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 248

An ACT to make it unlawful to catch crabs on trot-lines in the west branch of Wormley’s creek in York county and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Fishing

Chapter 249

An ACT to make it unlawful for any person, in the county of Halifax, to knowingly or intentionally go, or allow his dogs to go, upon any other person’s private gamne preserve, containing more than 5,000 acres, while hunting or chasing any fox or deer, without permission, and to prescribe penal- ties for violations thereof.
Hunting, Property

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties
Judicial, Children -- Institutional care, Marriage, Custody of children, Public officers

Chapter 251

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 298 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to continuances to which members and officers of the General Assembly are entitled.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6552 of the Code of Virginia, relating to articles which a householder may hold exempt from levy or distress.
Property, Debt, Death and burial, Cemeteries, Agriculture

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3222, 3223 as heretofore amended, and 3226 of the Code of Virginia, relating to oyster inspectors and assignment of planting grounds.
Agriculture, Business, Fishing

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public holidays.
Legislative Amendments, Labor, Civil Rights

Chapter 255

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to answers of guardians ad litem and infants in certain cases.
Children -- Institutional care, Judicial

Chapter 256

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on redistricting judicial circuits in Virginia; to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and to appropriate funds for certain expense of said commission.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 257

An ACT to prohibit sheriffs, sergeants, constables and high constables or any of their deputies from purchasing effects sold by them under writs and to prohibit any such officers from acting as an auctioneer or common crier unless he first obtains a license to act as such.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Business, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2773-n 40 of the Code of Virginia, as enacted into law by chapter 368 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, relating to the department of law enforcement in counties adopting the county manager form of organization and government.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 259

An ACT to authorize and empower justices of the peace, civil justices, civil and police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, and trial justices to recognize witnesses, issue subpoenas duces tecum, and punish for contempt.
Judicial

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6107 of the Code of Virginia relating to pleading several matters of law or fact.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 261

An ACT to provide that inquests over the bodies of persons who meet with sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious death, or who die without medical attention, where the death, or the injury which resulted in death, occurred in Henrico county and the dead body, or the person so injured, is taken to any morgue, hospital or other place in the city of Richmond, shall be held by the coroner of said county.
Coroner, Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law)

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to make it lawful to take, catch or have in possession “sponge” crabs at certain times, and empowering the Commissioner of Fisheries to close the season upon certain conditions
Fishing, Business

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3168 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to license to catch fish.
Fishing

Chapter 264

An ACT to provide for the collection and disposal of taxes which prior to the segregation of land and tangible personal property to the locali- ties, were assessed upon land and tangible personal property for any State purpose or purposes, and which are now delinquent.
Taxation, Education

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2. 17, 22, 23. 28. 32, 33, 34, 39, 43, 44, 46, 53, 58, 62, 63, 75, 84, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 105, 106, 107, 111, 112, 121 and 122 of chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly for 1932 entitled an act to revise, simplify, rearrange and consolidate into one act which shall constitute and be designated and cited as “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia,” the various statutes of the Commonwealth concerning the registration and licensing of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, the licensing of chauffeurs, the collection of fees and disposition of funds collected, the operation of vehicles on the public roads, highways, streets and alleys, the Division of Motor Vehicles and the director of said division, the powers and duties of said division and director, and the penalties for violations of the provisions of certain such statutes; and to repeal all statutes and acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 26, 1932.
Amendments, Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 266

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3413 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the Board of Law Examiners and qualifications and examination of applicants for membership to the bar.
Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 267

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6092 of the Code of Virginia, relating to statements of contributory negligence.
Amendments, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 268

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4696 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of opium, marihuana, loco weed, and other sedative, narcotic and hypnotic drugs, chemicals and substances.
Amendments, Business, Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 269

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, in the county of Westmoreland, approved February 25, 1892, as heretofore amended, relating to the officers of said town.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 204 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to veterinary surgeons’ licenses.
Taxation, Agriculture

Chapter 271

An ACT providing for the establishment of fire zones or districts
Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3l-a of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, 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 February 28, 1928, so as to authorize the hustings court of the city of Roanoke, or the judge thereof in vacation to appoint a bail commissioner or bail commissioners for the city of Roanoke, to provide for the disposition of fees collected by a bail commissioner, to provide for the compensation of a bail commissioner, to authorize the council of the city of Roanoke, Virginia, to fix the compensation of such bail commissioner and to authorize certain officers of the city of Roanoke to admit persons to bail.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 273

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 10-a and 10-b of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Blacksburg, approved March 12, 1912, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Education, Property, Public spaces, Bonds, Salaries

Chapter 274

An ACT to provide that motor vehicles used as service or wrecking cars shall, for the purpose of licensing and registration pursuant to the provisions of chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, and amendments thereof, be treated as other similar motor vehicles and not as motor vehicles operated for compensation or for hire.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109 thereof 13 new sections numbered 2726-m to 2726-y, both inclusive, vesting in boards of supervisors power to cause county buildings to be insured, to provide suitable rooms for county purposes and to determine what allowances, payable out of county treasuries, shall be made to county officers, and to repeal section 2726 and section 2726-a to 2726-1, both inclusive, relating to the same matters.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 368, 3378, 3379, 3381 and 3383 of the Code of Virginia; to amend and re-enact sections 3465 and 3486 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended; and to repeal section 3382 of the Code of Virginia; said sections relating to the tenure of office, duties and compensation of clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals, auditing the accounts of such clerks, collection and remittances of fees and costs by them.
Judicial, Lawyers, Public officers, Salaries, Public expenditures

Chapter 277

An ACT for the relief of Irvin Clore.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 38 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, approved March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended, defining the powers of the council of said city and relating to when certain ordinances shall be published and take effect.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Education, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Recreation, Labor, Law Enforcement, Taxation

Chapter 279

An ACT to release all liens upon real estate for taxes and levies due and payable to the Commonwealth or any political sub-division thereof prior to January 1, 1926; to provide that the right, title and interest of the Commonwealth in and to all real estate sold for taxes and levies assessed prior to January 1, 1916, which real estate has been purchased by the Commonwealth and not resold is released unto and vested by operation of law in the person or persons who owned the real estate at the time the Commonwealth so acquired title, or persons claiming, or to claim by, through or under them; and to provide that on and after July 1, 1936, no clerk shall make a tax deed conveying any real estate sold for delinquent taxes or levies assessed prior to January 1, 1916.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 280

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 15, 19 and 2314 of chapter 230 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1920, approved March 16, 1920, the same being an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, et cetera, as heretofore amended.
Budget, Education, Taxation

Chapter 281

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Radford, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 15, 1910, relating to collecting the city revenues.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 282

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Prince George county to fix the compensation of the county clerk for his services as clerk of said board, at any amount not in excess of $300.00 for any year.
Public officers, Budget

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend sections 12 and 19 of the charter of the town of Farmville, Virginia, approved March 12, 1912. [H B 387]
Municipal charters, Utilities, Public expenditures, Property, Cemeteries

Chapter 284

An ACT to provide for the establishment, purchase, construction, maintenance and operation of a radio system to be used for transmitting and receiving messages for the detection of crime and the apprehension of criminals, and for other police purposes; to authorize and empower the Governor in his discretion, to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire real and personal property for such purpose; to vest in the Governor certain powers in connection therewith; to provide for the co-operation of and with the localities of the Commonwealth; and to appropriate the sum of $75,000 for each year of the biennium beginning July 1, 1934, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used by the Governor, in his discretion, in carrying out the provisions of this act.
Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 285

An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development to transfer and convey to the United States of America any and all right, title and interest which the said commission and the Commonwealth of Virginia has or may hereafter acquire in and to lands known as and constituting Richmond battlefield parks.
Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 286

An ACT for the relief of the city of Winchester.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 287

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5113 of the Code of Virginia.
Divorce, Marriage

Chapter 288

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 169 thereof three new sections numbered 4258-h, 4258-i and 4258-j, defining group life insurance, providing standard provisions for policies thereof and exempting such policies and proceeds thereof from execution, attachment, garnishment and other similar processes.
Amendments, Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 289

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Richlands, Tazewell county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Public spaces, Business, Healthcare, Property, Education

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4568 of the Code of Virginia, relating to profane swearing and drunkenness, and punishment therefor.
Alcohol, Amendments, Public spaces, Law Enforcement

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 388 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to delinquent lists and treasurer’s oath.
Taxation

Chapter 292

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of each county in the State to invest the sinking funds of said county, and districts thereot, in county and district obligations, upon certain conditions.
Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 293

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the appointment
Repeal of legislation, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 294

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto sixteen new sections, numbered 4988-a to 4988-p, both inclusive, relating to the appointment of trial justices and substitute trial justices in counties; providing for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices, and prescribing the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices, substitute trial justices and clerks; to appropriate the sum of forty thousand ($40,000.00) dollars annually or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, for distribution among certain counties, and to repeal section 4988-a of the Code of Virginia, as enacted into law by chapter 81 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1926, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Municipal charters, Employment and labor

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 435 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to property exempt from taxation
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Charity, Religious Institutions, Education

Chapter 296

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies, and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April 18, 1927, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers, Reformatories

Chapter 297

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5827 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to limitation of enforcement of deeds of trusts, mortgages and liens to secure payment of unpaid purchase money.
Amendments, Property, Debt

Chapter 298

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon
Amendments, Debt, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 299

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 2769-a fixing the pay of supervisors of counties; and to repeal section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
Budget, Public officers, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuance of county bonds for constructing and operating water supply systems in the magisterial districts of certain counties of the State; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity, and to provide for the construction and operation of such water supply systems, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
Bonds, Utilities, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 301

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the valuation of bonds and other securities owned by insurance companies and fraternal beneficiary associations by the amortization method
Bonds, Business, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 302

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section forty-two hundred and thirty-five-a, prohibiting any person from acting as agent for any unauthorized insurance company or other insurer; defining insurance company or other insurer; providing for penalties for violations; and providing for certain exceptions.
Business

Chapter 303

An ACT to provide for a State Boxing and Wrestling Commission, to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the expense of administering this act
Amusement, Legislative Amendments, Business, Public expenditures
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