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1934

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Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in any county adjacent to a city having a population of thirty thousand, or more, and not exceeding 50,000.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 6240-a, permitting the introduction of evidence in mitigation of damages in actions against publishers, owners, editors, reporters and employees of newspapers, magazines and periodicals under section 5781 of the Code of Virginia or for libel or defamation.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1l-a of an act entitled a1 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, approved March 31, 1932, as heretofore amended, said section relating to the manner in which any county withdrawing from the operation of said act may bring itself back under the operation thereof.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 307

An ACT to name and designate route 31 of the State highway system as 'The Rolfe highway.'
Transportation

Chapter 308

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4814 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to coroners’ inquests and burial of SBT B
Coroner, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to qualifications and disqualifications of voters at general elections.
Voting, Civil Rights, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 93 of the Code of Virginia, relating to registration of voters and who to be registered.
Voting, Civil Rights, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Equality before the law

Chapter 311

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission of Virginia to join with the State Highway and Public Works Commission of the State of North Carolina to acquire the necessary lands therefor, and construct a bridge across the Dan river near Milton, North Carolina, and to provide for the payment of one-half of the costs of construction, and one-half of the costs of maintenance thereof, if constructed, and to vest title to said bridge, when and if constructed.
Transportation

Chapter 312

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2723 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the sale, exchange and control of county property by supervisors.
Property, Public expenditures, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 313

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1923 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to causing or encouraging children under eighteen years of age to commit misdemeanors, etc.

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5249 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to probate of wills, appointment and qualification of appraisers, personal representatives and curators, by clerks and deputies, and appeals therefrom.
Amendments, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 205 thereof a new section numbered 5112-a providing that a divorce from bed and board shall not bar a divorce from the bonds of matrimony.
Divorce

Chapter 316

An ACT to provide additional funds for the operation of the banking division of the State Corporation Commission by authorizing and giving the State Corporation Commission power to increase the fees and assessments for examination, supervision, registration and licensing of State banks and trust companies, national banks, building and loan associations, industrial loan associations, credit unions and small loan companies, to expend the same and for other purposes.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 317

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6503 of the Code of Virginia, relating to ascertainment of the estate on which a writ of fiert facias is a lien.
Debt, Judicial

Chapter 318

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the keeping, and making entries in the chancery and common law order books in the several courts of this State
Judicial

Chapter 319

An ACT to prohibit the sale or exchange on the open market, within this State, of goods, wares and merchandise prepared or manufactured by convicts or prisoners of other states; and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith.
Prisons, Slavery, Labor, Unclassified

Chapter 320

An ACT to prohibit the purchase of building materials, supplies and equipment for buildings and structures being erected or constructed or hereafter erected or constructed by, for or on behalf of the Commonwealth and counties, cities, towns, departments, divisions, institutions and agencies thereof from persons employed or acting as architects or supervising architects for such buildings and structures, and from partnerships, associations and corporations in which such persons are financially interested, and to prohibit the sale and supplying of such materials, supplies and equipment by such persons, partnerships, associations and corporations; and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 321

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4806 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the duties of coroners.
Coroner

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 157 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to licenses on theatrical and other performances, exhibitions, etc.
Amendments, Business, Charity, Cemeteries, Education, Public expenditures, Recreation, Taxation

Chapter 323

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 344 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to boards of equalization of real estate assessments.
Taxation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the suspension of operator’s and chauffeur’s licenses and registration certificate, and the right of non-residents to operate a motor vehicle, in certain cases; to prescribe procedure where damages to property and/or injuries to persons have been caused by the operation of motor vehicles, and to prescribe penalties, approved March 24, 1932, and to provide for the collection and distribution of fees from judgment creditors requesting suspension of operator’s, chauffeur’s and motor vehicle licenses.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 133 thereof a new section numbered 3425-a prohibiting actions for words used in proceedings and investigations as to the professional conduct of attorneys
Lawyers, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 326

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4387 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the vacating of the appointment of commissioners, the appointment of other commissioners, the payment of amounts awarded, and the dismissal of the proceedings on motion of either party, with costs and attorneys fees against the condemning party, in proceedings instituted for the purpose of exercising the right of eminent domain.
Judicial, Property

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3392 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to recording writings and other instruments.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 185 thereof a new section numbered 4705-a prohibiting persons from advertising in newspapers to draw wills or have wills drawn and prescribing penalties for violations.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Law Enforcement

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and property rights.
Divorce, Custody of children, Property

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 6457-a, providing that bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness secured by deeds of trust, mortgages, or other liens, shall have no priority, one over the other, by priority of assignment or otherwise, unless the instrument creating the lien so provides.
Bonds, Debt, Property

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 580 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Division of Statutory Research and Drafting.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 332

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 403-a, authorizing the Governor to vacate, assign and re-assign rooms and space in the public buildings other than the capitol.
Amendments, Public officers, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize and regulate the exchange of certain classes of reciprocal and inter-insurance contracts among individuals, partnerships and corporations, empowering corporations generally to make such contracts, regulating process in suits on such contracts, and prescribing certain fees, taxes and licenses and penalty for violations, approved March 20, 1918, as last amended by an act approved March 26, 1932.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 334

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17 of an act entitled an act to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies other than life, providing a penalty for any violation hereof, and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 16, 1920, as last amended by an act approved March 16, 1932.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 335

An ACT to authorize and empower any two or more of the counties, cities and towns through their respective governing bodies to contract with each other for any public improvement and to provide in such contracts for appropriations of such moneys as may be deemed necessary for such purposes.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Utilities, Budget, Transportation, Public spaces, Education

Chapter 336

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 366 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the suspension and removal of treasurers of counties and cities and of other officers charged with the collection and disposition of and accounting for public revenues.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 337

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4767 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to how attempts to commit offenses punished.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4407 of the Code of Virginia, relating to kidnapping.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5259 of the Code of Virginia, relating to probate, impeachment and establishment of wills.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5562 of the Code of Virginia, relating to seals and scrolls and when not required.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of an act entitled an act to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain securities herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged, or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, approved March 23, 1918, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Business, Bonds

Chapter 342

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 203 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of vendors of patent, proprietary or domestic medicines, salves, liniments or compounds of like kind, spices, extracts, toilet articles and other articles of like kind.
Taxation, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 343

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 288 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to fixing of county and district levies.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the pro-tection of fish, squirrels and other game in Buchanan county, approved March 24, 1932, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Fishing, Hunting

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2773-h of the Code of Virginia, relating to county managers.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 346

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 4326-a, requiring certain liability insurance policies issued or delivered in this State to contain certain provisions; and to repeal chapter 339 of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, approved March 20, 1924.
Employment and labor, Property

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5566 and 5567 of the Code of Virginia, relating to negotiable instruments.
Business

Chapter 348

An ACT to amend and re-enact section, 200 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to pay of judges, clerks, registrars and commissioners of election.
Judicial, Voting, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 349

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections twenty hundred and forty-nine and twenty hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia, relating to the regulation, operation, management and lease of the ferries across the Elizabeth river and the branches thereof, and providing for the issuance of bonds therefor.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 109 thereof a new section numbered 2770-a, providing for clerks for boards of supervisors and fixing and providing for the compensation and duties of such clerks: and to repeal section 2770 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the same matters.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 351

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 191 of the Tax Code of Virginia in relation to pawn-brokers.
Taxation, Business, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement

Chapter 352

An ACT to provide for the election in cities having a population in excess of forty-five thousand and less than one hundred and twenty-five thousand of members of the executive committee of political parties, and of delegates to party conventions, and to provide for primaries for the nomination of party candidates in such cities and party senatorial candidates in senatorial districts of which such cities are a part.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 353

An ACT for the relief of Thomas F. Clemmer.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 354

An ACT for the further relief of Robert Coleman
Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 355

An ACT to restore to the State Corporation Commission certain unexpended amounts collected from certain classes of public service corporations under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Acts 1924, page 536, now section 230 of the Tax Code, which amounts have been covered into the general funds of the treasury under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Acts 1928, page 35, known as the Tax Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Budget

Chapter 356

An ACT authorizing the city of Bristol during the calendar years of 1934 and 1935 to issue short term obligations and to pledge therewith as collateral bonds maturing during said years.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 357

An ACT to provide for the supervision, regulation and control of the production, processing, transportation, storage, distribution, and sale of milk and cream; to create a Milk Commission and local milk boards and to define and provide for the functions, duties and powers thereof; to provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs, and expenses of such commission and boards and the members, officers, agents and employees thereof; to provide for licensing processors, bottlers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers of milk and cream, or either; to provide for the raising of funds for the administration of this act and to provide for the disposition of revenue collected hereunder and to impose penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 358

An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1935, and the thirtieth day of June, 1936.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial, Education, Pensions, Civil Rights, Healthcare, Labor, Agriculture, Utilities, Taxation, Transportation, Cemeteries, Children -- Institutional care, Public spaces, Reformatories, Municipal charters, Indigenous peoples, Noncitizens, Slavery, Prisons

Chapter 359

An ACT for the relief of Margaret F. McMurran.
Public expenditures, Judicial, Transportation

Chapter 360

An ACT to identify and provide for the maintenance, operation, control and management of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium; to provide how patients may be received therein; to provide for the distribution and use of revenues derived therefrom and to appropriate the same; and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.
Healthcare, Property, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 364

An ACT to provide for the compensation of attorneys for the Commonwealth in the counties and cities, county and city treasurers, and county and city commissioners of the revenue, and officers and employees performing the duties of such officers in counties which adopt optional forms of county organization and government; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying their salaries and the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide for the payment of such salaries and expenses; to provide for the disposition of the fees collected by such officers; to provide for a Compensation Board to administer this act; to provide for the powers, duties and functions of such board: to abolish the State Fee Commission; to appropriate funds for the payment of salaries and expenses and for the administration of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
Employment and labor, Public officers, Salaries, Budget, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 365

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 169 thereof, a new section numbered 4257-d, prohibiting officers and directors of insurance companies from being pecuniarily interested in certain transactions.
Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 366

An ACT relating to public service companies, providing for additional supervision and regulation of their relations and practices with affiliated interests, and declaring an emergency.
Utilities, Business

Chapter 367

An ACT to authorize the Director of the Division of Markets, with the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, to co-operate with Federal officials, national, district and State committees and supervisory bodies in establishing and enforcing codes and marketing agreements adopted under the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Act and amendments thereto and other similar Acts of Congress; to make agreements for carrying out the provisions of this act and the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Act and amendments thereto and other similar Acts of Congress; to appoint, supervise and dismiss inspectors and representatives for carrying out the purposes of this act; to receive fees and moneys for carrying out the purposes of this act and to provide for the distribution thereof; to adopt and make effective any or all codes and agreements approved by Federal officials under the Agricultural Adjustment Act and acts amendatory thereto and similar Acts of Congress; to provide that such code or marketing agreement when approved by the Governor shall become effective in intrastate commerce in this State; and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act.
Agriculture, Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 368

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the grading and marking of apples in closed packages; to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to establish and promulgate official standard grades for apples and rules and regulations governing the marking of the same; to provide for the inspection of apples; the appointment of inspectors and their compensation; to prohibit violations of this act and to prescribe penalties therefor, approved April 18, 1927.
Agriculture

Chapter 369

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to provide for the incorporation, establishment and operation of loan and savings institutions known as “credit unions,” approved March 27, 1922.
Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 370

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to change the location of a portion of route 55 between Marshall and Markham.
Transportation

Chapter 371

An ACT to provide, with certain restrictions, a site for the establishment of a Confederate memorial park to be known as the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park; to provide for the establishment, management, control, maintenance and operation of said park, and to provide for the disposition of any revenues derived from said park.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces, Charity

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 33 thereof a new section numbered 698-a, providing for the levying of taxes and the appropriation of moneys in counties, cities and towns for public school purposes, and to repeal section 698 of the Code of Virginia pertaining to the same matter.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 373

An ACT to make it unlawful for any person to have imported into, or to have in possession in this State, any unopened oysters other than the species known as Ostrea Virginia, and to prescribe penalties for violations
Agriculture, Fishing

Chapter 374

An ACT to define Chincoteague oysters and Chincoteague clams, and to prohibit selling, distribution and designation of oysters and clams as Chincoteague oysters and Chincoteague clams unless such oysters and clams are taken from certain waters in and around Chincoteague island after having actually been in such waters for a period of at least six months; and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.
Fishing

Chapter 375

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create a State Commission on Conservation and Development; to prescribe its powers and duties; to vest it with powers and duties now vested by law in the Water Power and Development Commission, the State Geological Commission, the State Geological Survey, the office of the State Geologist, and the office of the State Forester; and to vest it with power to condemn and acquire land and other property for public park purposes, approved March 17, 1926.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public spaces

Chapter 376

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 389 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to delinquent taxes and levies.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 377

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 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 March 24, 1922, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 378

An ACT to designate the location of route No. 190 of the State highway system in Princess Anne county, Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 379

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 394 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the collection of delinquent levies.
Taxation, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 380

An ACT to authorize any building and loan association or company or any savings and loan association or company or any savings bank or any other corporation or association eligible to become a member of any Federal Home Loan Bank to become a member and stockholder of the Federal Home Loan Bank and to borrow money therefrom.
Business

Chapter 381

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to continue the board of charities and corrections under the name of State Board of Public Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections 1888 to 1902 inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, approved February 27, 1922, so as to authorize boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties to appoint local superintendents of public welfare.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 382

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Hopewell 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 Hopewell.
Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities, Taxation, Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Civil Rights, Healthcare, Pensions, Education

Chapter 383

An ACT to name and designate route 88 of the State highway system as “the B. F. Buchanan highway.”
Transportation

Chapter 384

An ACT to require notice when application is made for appointment of receivers, and to provide for appointment of receivers in emergency cases, and to require certain notices, settlements and reports.
Judicial, Business, Property, Debt

Chapter 385

An ACT to name the bridge across Powell river, in the town of Big Stone Gap, on route 23 of the State highway system, the “Hugh Williams memorial bridge.”
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 386

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6035 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to interpleader.
Judicial, Amendments, Business

Chapter 387

An ACT to authorize certain cities and incorporated towns to levy on every person, partnership, company or corporation, issuing policies of fire insurance covering property situated within the limits of such cities and incorporated towns an annual tax based on the gross premiums collected and received from fire insurance policies covering property situated within the limits of such cities and incorporated towns to create a fund for the relief of injured and disabled firemen and for the relief of dependents of deceased firemen; to require the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking of the State of Virginia to furnish certain information to such cities and incorporated towns relative to such insurers and premiums collected and received from fire insurance upon property within such cities and incorporated towns; and for other purposes in connection therewith; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Fire fighters, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 388

An ACT to amend chapter 433 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1928, page 1115, entitled an act to provide for the organization, maintenance and supervision of a fire, windstorm, lightning, tornado, hail, and automobile fire and theft insurance rate making bureau; to provide for the making and filing of such rates by the bureau, insurance companies and other insurers; whether stock, mutual, reciprocal or interinsurer; to generally regulate rate making agreements; to prohibit discrimination; and to empower the State Corporation Commission to fix, approve, alter or reduce such rates; providing penalties for violations; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 26, 1928, by adding thereto a new section, numbered 17, to require insurers against fire to report to the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking of the State of Virginia gross premiums collected and received from fire insurance policies covering property situated within the limits of each city, town and county; to give such commissioner authority to investigate concerning any such report; and to provide penalties for violations.
Public officers

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 8, 14, 16, 17, 18, 23 and 24 of chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, entitled an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act, approved March 29, 1932.
Amendments, Transportation, Public officers, Judicial, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Civil Rights, Alcohol

Chapter 390

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of chapter three hundred and forty-two of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-two, 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.
Transportation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1215 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to ice cream and other frozen products, and to repeal sections 1216 and 1217 of the Code of Virginia, and any and all acts amendatory thereof relating to the same subjects.
Business, Charity, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 392

An ACT to empower any city and county now jointly operating or which may hereafter jointly operate a ferry or ferries to issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 393

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 429 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to claims of the Commonwealth of Virginia and its political subdivisions for taxes, levies and fees, together with penalties and interest thereon, given preference.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Debt

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5431 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to securities in which fiduciaries may invest funds.
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Debt, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to slot machines.
Taxation, Gambling, Business, Amusement, Public officers

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 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, and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 8-a.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 397

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter two hundred sixty-four thereof a new section numbered 6298-a, providing for the appointment of substitute trustees in discretionary trusts, and the exercise of personal confidence and discretionary powers by such substituted trustees.
Amendments, Property

Chapter 398

An ACT for the relief of O. G. Jackson.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Judicial

Chapter 399

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 5216-d, relating to the recordation of orders approving the bonds of trustees in bankruptcy.
Bonds, Business

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 5216-b, relating to the recordation of judgments, orders and decrees of United States courts affecting the title to, boundary or possession of, or any interest in and to real estate situated within this State.
Judicial, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 401

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered section 5216-c, relating to the recordation of orders or decrees of adjudication of bankruptcy.
Debt, Property, Business

Chapter 402

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 85 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions, approved February 28, 1918, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Pensions, Confederate, Marriage, Divorce

Chapter 403

An ACT for the relief of William A. Tuck, guardian of Helen Mitchell Morgan.
Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 404

Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 405

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to require the board of supervisors of the counties and the councils or other governing bodies of cities and towns to prepare and publish annual budgets, to hold public hearings thereon, and to give publicity to proposed increases in the local tax levies; to provide for regular audits by the State Accountant in the counties, and to prescribe the duties and powers of such accountant in reference thereto, approved March 26, 1926, as heretofore amended.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 406

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 565 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the services of the Auditor of Public Accounts to counties and cities.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures
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