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1936

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 70 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to tax on money.
Taxation

Chapter 102

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 157 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to licenses on theatrical and other performances, exhibitions, etc.
Amusement, Taxation, Charity, Education

Chapter 103

An ACT to authorize the city of Petersburg to acquire a tract of land in Prince George County, known as the “Crater Farm” and the land adjacent thereto, together with the museum thereon and the contents of such museum, and thereafter to use or dispose of the same for the best interest of the said city.
Municipal charters, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4222 of the Code of Virginia relating to resident agents of insurance companies; countersignature of insurance policies; and prohibition of discriminations.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 105

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 (37), 7, 42 (d), 50 (e) and 55 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 19, 1920, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 106

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, Legislative Amendments, Salaries, Taxation

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 56 of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to provide a new charter for the town of Lexington, Rockbridge county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith,”
Business, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 22 and 23 of an act entitled "an act to provide a new charter for the town of Farmville," approved February 10, 1890, as amended by chapter 162 of the Acts of the Assembly of 1912, approved March 16, 1912, said sections relating to the issuance of bonds; to provide for the issuance of serial bonds; to prescribe the procedure for issuing refunding bonds; and to validate all bonds now outstanding.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 109

An ACT to repeal the two sections numbered 29 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," approved March 26, 1928, and to amend said act by adding thereto and inserting therein in lieu of the sections repealed, two new sections numbered 29 and 29-a, providing for the issuance of bonds, the laying of levies, and the appropriation of moneys.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2854 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to courthouses, clerk’s offices, jails, and other public property.
Judicial, Jails, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 52 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, in relation to borrowing money, and letting of certain contracts
Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2095 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to prisoners on the State convict road force, so as to make the same applicable to prisoners in chain gangs, at the State Farm, and at the State Industrial Farm for Women, and so as to provide for certain credits against unpaid fines and costs.
Amendments, Prisons, Labor, Debt

Chapter 113

An ACT to impose an annual State license tax on certain police pension fund associations, police benevolent associations, and firemen’s mutual aid associations, which license tax shall be in lieu of all State taxes on the intangible personal property of such association.
Public officers, Pensions, Law Enforcement, Fire fighters

Chapter 114

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5, 14, 27 and 33, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk,’ approved March 20, 1924, Section 5 relating to the election of councilmen and other city officers, Section 14 to the trial justice of the city and his jurisdiction, Section 27 to borrowing money, and Section 33 to appeals from the trial justice: and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 42-a, relating to time for bringing action against city for damages; and to repeal Section 1l-a thereof.
Municipal charters, Judicial, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4246 of the Code of Virginia relating to the annual report of the State Corporation Commission on insurance companies in receivership, so as, among other things, to require the filing of reports and other papers concerning receivership proceedings.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 116

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled “an act to regulate investments of domestic life insurance companies”
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4272 of the Code of Virginia relating to assessment or co-operative life or casualty corporations, companies, societies or associations.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 118

An ACT to re-number Section 356 of the Code as Section 347-1; to re-number Section 358 of the Code as Section 347-2; to re-number Section 368 of the Code as Section 347-3; to re-number Section 369 of the Code as Section 347-4; to re-number Section 370 of the Code as Section 347-5; to re-number Section 371 of the Code as Section 347-6; to re-number Section 372 of the Code as Section 347-7; to re-number Section 373 of the Code as Section 347-8; to re-number Section 374 of the Code as Section 347-9; to re-number Section 358-a of the Virginia Code of 1930, as Section 347-10 of the Code of Virginia, and as re-numbered to amend and re-enact said Code sections.
Amendments, Education, Public officers

Chapter 119

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 31, 36, 36-a, 41 and 51 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to income taxes; to amend and re-enact Section 98 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to inheritance taxes; to amend and re-enact Section 120-15 of the Tax Code of Virginia in relation to gift taxes; to amend and re-enact Section 216-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to pipe line transmission corporations; and to amend and re-enact Section 229 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the Taxes on water or heat, light and power corporations.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures, Utilities, Business

Chapter 120

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4835 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the fees of bail commissioners and clerks of courts for admitting persons to bail and the authority of the clerk to exercise powers of a bail commissioner.
Judicial, Bonds, Law Enforcement

Chapter 121

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 227 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to license tax on telegraph and telephone companies.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 122

An ACT to prevent the pollution of certain waters in the county of York, and to prescribe means for enjoining violations of this act, and to prescribe the duty of the court to which relief is applied for.
Judicial

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act entitled "an act to authorize and empower educational institutions of the State to erect buildings and to make other improvements to their plants and for such purpose to borrow or accept money under the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and any acts amendatory thereof, and any acts supplemental thereto and revisions thereof, and any further acts of the Congress of the United States, and to issue bonds and certificates of indebtedness and other obligations; to provide funds for the payment of the principal of and the interest on the same and to secure such payment; and to authorize and empower said institutions to lease with or without the privilege of purchase buildings and projects constructed pursuant to the provisions of said National Industrial Recovery Act and any acts amendatory thereof and any acts supplemental thereto and revisions thereof, and any further act of the Congress of the United States, and to acquire and convey such real estate or other property as shall be required for such buildings and projects, approved September 12, 1933, so as to extend the effective date of certain provisions of said act until July 1, 1938.
Education, Budget, Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 14 of an act entitled "an act to enable counties, cities and towns to secure the benefits of an act of the Congress of the United States of America, approved June 16, 1933, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, and any acts amendatory thereof and any acts supplemental thereto and revisions thereof, and any further act of the Congress of the United States of America delegating powers to undertake any purpose or purposes in aid of the financing of which the President of the United States or any other Federal agency is now or hereafter authorized and empowered, through the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works or through such other agencies as may be designated or created, to make grants or loans; delegating powers to contract debts, borrow money and issue bonds therefor; prescribing the mode of procedure for, and regulating the issuance of such bonds, and providing for the payment thereof; authorizing agreements with the holders of such bonds and providing for the remedies of such holders; and repealing inconsistent provisions of all laws general or special of the Commonwealth," approved September 7, 1933, so as to extend the effective date of certain provisions of said act until July 1, 1938.
Amendments, Budget, Bonds, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 61 and 62 and 94, as amended, 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, said sections relating to reckless driving and lighting equipment.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 126

An ACT validating, ratifying, approving, and confirming certain bonds and other instruments or obligations heretofore issued, and validating, ratifying, approving, and confirming certain proceedings heretofore taken, by counties, cities, towns, school districts, school boards, and sanitary districts in, and educational institutions of, this Commonwealth.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1715, 1716, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1724, 1725 and 1726 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, as heretofore amended, and to add eleven new sections to the Code of Virginia, to be known and designated as sections 1715 (1), 1719-a, 1720-a, 1720-b, 1720-c, 1721-a, 1721-b, 1724-a, 1726-a, 1726-b and 1726-c, relating to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors, changing the name of said board from State Board of Embalming to State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors of Virginia, providing for the appointment and terms of members of said board, for the qualification of said members as to how said members shall qualify, for the meetings of said board, the election of officers of said board, for the adoption of rules and regulations by said board, for the establishment and conduct of schools; fixing the per diem of the members of said board, the compensation of its officers; prescribing the powers and duties of said board; authorizing the appointment of an inspector and providing for his authority and duties; providing for the qualification of applicants for a license, examination and licensing of embalmers, funeral directors and assistant funeral directors and the fees therefor; to prohibit false statements by applicants; to prohibit bribery and certain deceptive, misleading, improbable and unethical advertising, and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof; to require a license of persons employed by firms and corporations; to provide for the refusal, suspension or revocation of licenses and for appeals therefrom; to prohibit certain transactions between funeral directors and embalmers and burial associations and to provide penalties for the violation thereof; to require all funds collected by the State board to be paid into the State treasury, there to be retained until appropriated by law; to prescribe what shall constitute violations of this chapter and the penalties therefor; to prescribe certain definitions and to authorize the board to adopt certain rules and regulations; to provide for certain exceptions and exclusions from the act; and to declare each part of this act severable; and to repeal section 1717 of the Code of Virginia relating to membership of the State Board of Health.
Amendments, Dead bodies (Law), Death and burial, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1077 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded.
Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 129

An ACT to define motor vehicle carriers and transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation, supervision, and control of persons, firms, corporations, and associations, owning, controlling, operating, or managing motor vehicles used for the transportation of persons or property for compensation on the public highways of this State, and of transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation of the rates thereof; to provide for and/or regulate and/or control the operation of, and the charges, rates, or services imposed by any person, firm, or corporation operating motor vehicles for compensation over the highways of this State; to provide for the enforcement of this act, and for the punishment of violations thereof; and to repeal chapter 359 of the Acts of 1932, and all statutes and/or acts, or parts of statutes and/or acts, in conflict with the provisions of this act.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 130

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5408 and 5426 of the Code of Virginia, relating to settlement of fiduciaries accounts, and filing reports thereof.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 131

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 4902-b, providing for the selection, use, powers and duties of additional jurors in the trial of certain criminal cases to substitute for regular jurors who die or are discharged, or excused, to prevent mistrials in such cases.
Judicial

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 4902-a, providing that when a jury is required to be kept together, the court may for good cause permit one or more of such jurors to be separated from the others, provided all such jurors be kept in charge of officers provided therefor.
Judicial

Chapter 134

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 6253-a, designating the judges who may sign bills of exceptions and certificates of exceptions pertaining to any case tried in any court by a judge who is not the regular judge thereof.
Judicial

Chapter 135

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 414 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the correction of erroneous assessments.
Taxation, Judicial, Property

Chapter 136

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2808 of the Code of Virginia, designating persons who shall be deemed vagrants.
Vagrancy, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 137

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6185 of the Code of Virginia relating to how report of commissioners in chancery made out; what to be returned with it, et cetera, so as to require the commissioner to give notice of the date of the return of his report to certain parties or their attorneys.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4951 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the hiring of persons sentenced to confinement in jail for failure to pay a fine and costs of prosecution, or confined in jail under a capias pro fine, so as to provide for the relief of the hirer and the release of the fine and costs.
Judicial, Debt, Prisons

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4950 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when and how persons held in custody, or under a capias pro fine, may be hired out to pay fine and costs.
Amendments, Custody of children, Jails, Debt, Labor

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 167 thereof a new section to be numbered section 4184-a, relating to reports of examinations of insurance companies.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4180 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the refusal, suspension or revocation of licenses of insurance companies insolvent or violating the law.
Amendments, Business, Judicial

Chapter 142

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4184 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to records of fires.
Amendments, Fire fighters, Public officers

Chapter 143

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 175 thereof a new section to be numbered section 4353-a, relating to investments of industrial sick benefit companies.
Business

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide for the supervision, regulation, and fixing of the rates and charges of persons, associations and corporations, issuing motor vehicle liability insurance policies; to require such persons, associations, and corporations to file reports, rates, rate manuals, schedules of rates, rating plans, information concerning rates, and changed deviations therefrom, with the State Corporation Commission; to prescribe the rights, powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission concerning stich matters; to provide for the establishment of an administrative bureau and membership therein; to provide for appeals from the State Corporation Commission; to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 23, 1932.
Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 145

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 835 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of the board of visitors for the Virginia Military Institute.
Amendments, Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2158 and 2162 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to public moneys and State depositories.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Property, Utilities

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 169 thereof a new section numbered 4258-k, defining industrial life insurance.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4231 of the Code of Virginia, relating to penalties for violation of the insurance laws where not otherwise provided.
Business

Chapter 149

An ACT to transfer to and vest in the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration, to be exercised by it through the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration and a Supervisor of Inspection of Apples and Peaches, certain powers and duties heretofore conferred and imposed by law upon the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, the Division of Markets, the Director of the Division of Markets, and the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration, and to provide compensation for the said supervisor and other necessary inspectors and employees and the expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this act.
Agriculture, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend section 297 of the Tax Code of Virginia relating to the collection of city or town taxes or levies on property in installments.
Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4895 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to venire facias in felony cases and the trial of persons jointly indicted for a felony, so as to provide that juries summoned as herein provided may be used for the trial of civil cases as well as felonies and misdemeanors.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 152

An ACT to authorize and direct the Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing to furnish to the law school of any university or incorporated college whose law library has been destroyed by fire, out of any surplus copies on hand and available for distribution, certain copies of the Virginia Reports and of the Acts of the General Assembly.
Education, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 168 thereof a new section numbered 4226-a, providing that insurance agents shall collect full premiums and receive full commissions, exceptions thereto and prohibiting insurance agents from countersigning insurance policies in blank.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4771 of the Code of Virginia, relating to offenses committed on or near county boundary lines, so as to confer certain powers upon sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and police officers.
Boundaries, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4235 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, as to filing list of agents of insurance companies.
Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 175 thereof a new section to be numbered Section 4354-a, relating to the collection of premiums by industrial insurance agents.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 157

An ACT validating certain outstanding indebtedness of the town of Phoebus, Virginia, and authorizing said town to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of funding part of such indebtedness and refunding part of such indebtedness and to require the council of said town annually to levy taxes to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 158

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of 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,' approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended.
Judicial, Debt, Amendments

Chapter 159

An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm bonds issued by the County School Board of Warwick County, at a special election heretofore held on November 5, 1935, authorizing the issuance of such bonds by said County School Board, for the purpose of erecting, furnishing and equipping a school building in Warwick County, Virginia, under the rules and regulations prescribed by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 155, as heretofore amended, 157 and 162 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the printing and marking of election ballots, so as to provide for affirmative voting.
Voting

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3853 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to boards of directors of corporations created under chapter 148 of the said Code, by omitting provisions for change of principal office by action of the board.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 162

An ACT to require the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to refund to certain licensees thereunder any moneys collected by it for licenses in excess of the amounts of single annual license taxes.
Alcohol

Chapter 163

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to acquire, by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, scenic easements, or in lieu thereof parcels of land, on either side or both sides of the roadway or highway from a point at or near Jarmen’s Gap and extending generally in a southwesterly direction to the North Carolina line, which roadway or highway the State Highway Commissioner has been heretofore authorized to convey to the United States, and which has been set apart and designated by the United States as the proposed Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway; and to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to transfer, assign and convey to the United States said scenic easements, or land, so acquired.
Transportation, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 164

An ACT validating certain outstanding indebtedness for street paving of the city of Hampton, Virginia, and authorizing said city to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of refunding such indebtedness, and to require the council of said city annually to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11 of chapter 3 of the acts of the General Assembly at its Extra Session 1933, approved August 29, 1933, the said section relating to powers and duties of the State Tax Commissioner pertaining to the use of stamps, crowns and caps; prescribing the method and manner of evidencing the payment and collection of such tax by manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of beverages in Virginia, and re-quiring such persons to keep records and make reports; regulating the refund of such taxes; and imposing penalties for violations of this section.
Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 166

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 28 of chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, relating to the collection of the beer excise tax; prescribing the method and manner of evidencing the payment and collection of such tax by manufacturers, bottlers, wholesalers and retailers of beer in Virginia and requiring such persons to keep records and make reports; regulating the refund of taxes; and imposing penalties for violations of this section.
Alcohol, Taxation, Business

Chapter 167

An ACT to authorize the Governor of Virginia, with the approval of the State Board of Health, to sell or lease certain land located in Roanoke county, Virginia, acquired April 15, 1912, from C. E. Strickler and wife by the Commonwealth of Virginia, for use in connection with the Catawba Sanatorium; and to appropriate the money realized therefrom.
Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 168

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 871l-a, providing for the inspection of potatoes and other farm products by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration; and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitléd an act to create and maintain a State board of crop pest commissioners, and to define its duties and powers
Agriculture, Amendments, Business

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3780 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to amending charters and changing location of principal officers of corporations.
Amendments, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 170

An ACT to create a legislative council to be known as the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council; to provide for the appointment of the members of such council; to prescribe the powers and duties of the said council; and to appropriate funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4693-a, providing how the committing, or permitting, of any act prohibited by any one or more of sections 4676 to 4693, both inclusive, may be enjoined and restrained, and to prescribe the method of procedure for such purpose, said Code sections being in relation to gaming, gambling, betting and other similar offenses.
Gambling, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 172

An ACT to declare certain areas in the York river natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals, to provide for a survey thereof, and to include the same within the Baylor survey.
Fishing

Chapter 173

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section numbered 322, providing for the appointment, duties and expenses of Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 174

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 208 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to method of voting by an absent voter; and prohibiting a candidate from certifying the ballot of such a voter, and prescribing penalty therefor.
Voting

Chapter 175

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5992 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to providing juries for the trial of civil and misdemeanor cases.
Judicial

Chapter 176

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act 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, as heretofore amended, in relation to the operator of a motor vehicle displaying his license upon demand.
Transportation, Business, Judicial

Chapter 177

An ACT to provide for a determination and survey of the natural rocks, beds and shoals in the waters of Princess Anne county.
Fishing, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 178

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 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the sale, conveyance and transfer by corporations, with certain exceptions, of the whole of their property, including good will, to any person, or corporation authorized to acquire the same, save that a corporation organized to conduct the business of banks, savings banks and/or trust companies, can only sell, convey or transfer such property, including good will, to another domestic corporation organized for the purpose of carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank and/or trust company.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 180

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, in relation to jurisdiction in cases of desertion and non-support.
Amendments, Custody of children, Divorce, Employment and labor, Judicial, Marriage, Noncitizens

Chapter 181

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6371 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the destruction of manuscript records and the binding of printed records in the clerk’s offices of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 182

An ACT to appropriate to the Division of Motor Vehicles $161,500 for the year beginning July 1, 1936, and $146,500 for the year beginning July 1, 1937, to be used for the employment of additional police officers and the adjustment of salaries of the police force of the said division.
Budget, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor

Chapter 183

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to pay Mrs. Nannie A. Bryant for services rendered by her as overseer of the poor for Clear Fork magisterial district for the years 1931 to 1935, inclusive.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 184

An ACT to provide for the supervision and regulation of the sale, marketing and distribution of tobacco; to create a tobacco commission and provide for local tobacco committeemen and other agencies and employees, and to define and to provide for their functions, duties and powers; to provide for the appointment, suspension, removal, compensation, costs and expenses of said commission, and of committeemen, agencies and employees thereof; to provide for the raising of funds for the administration of this act and for the disposition of the revenue hereunder; to provide a fund to compensate tobacco growers for crop failures and losses from fire; to impose penalties for violation of this act and to provide for the establishment of a compact and agreement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and certain other states for the purpose of regulating and controlling commerce in tobacco in and between the Commonwealth of Virginia and each of such states.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 185

An ACT to authorize and provide for the inspection of herring in certain cases, by persons licensed or employed for the purpose, by the Director of the Division of Markets; to provide for the payment of inspection fees, and to appropriate the money derived therefrom; and to make certain certificates of inspection prima facie evidence for certain purposes.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 186

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 247, as heretofore amended, and section 267 of the Code of Virginia, relating to how primary elections, and elections of county, corporation and district officers contested, respectively, so as to provide for the taxing of costs in such contests.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights, Public officers

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6552 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to articles which may be held exempt from levy or distress.
Property, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession, Budget, Agriculture

Chapter 188

An ACT to authorize and empower peace officers of other State of the United States to follow in close pursuit and arrest in Virginia persons fleeing into Virginia, and to provide for the disposition of such persons after such arrest.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 189

An ACT to authorize publishers of newspapers to erect and maintain newspaper route boxes on the rights of way of public roads in rural sections, and to print on such boxes the names of the newspapers to be deposited therein.
Business, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 190

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 153 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to carnivals, shows, circuses, menageries, and other like amusements, so as to prohibit certain exhibitions and performances in which agricultural products are included without the payment of license taxes therefore.
Amusement, Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2757 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to powers of boards of supervisors to establish and maintain public sewers.
Utilities, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 192

An ACT to validate certain deeds heretofore executed by corporations which were subsequently dissolved, to which deeds the corporate seal was either not affixed or not attested, or where there were certain imperfections in the certificates of acknowledgment.
Property

Chapter 193

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 48 of an act entitled an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia Banking Act, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof, approved March 27, 1928, as heretofore amended, relating to liability of borrowers and loans on stock
Business, Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3l-a as amended, and section 46 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, section 3l-a being in relation to the bail commissioners, and section 46 in relation to the sinking fund commission, and to declare an emergency.
Amendments, Budget, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 195

Hunting, Wildlife, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 196

An ACT to prohibit dynamiting fish in any of the waters in the county of Russell, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof; and to repeal an act entitled “an act to permit the shooting of certain kinds of fish in certain waters in the County of Russell, during certain times, and the gigging for said fish in certain waters in Russell County during the open season,” approved March 27, 1934.
Fishing, Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 197

An ACT to prohibit the pollution of the waters of the Chickahominy river and its tributaries, and to provide means for enjoining violations of this act, and to prescribe the duty of the court to which relief is applied for.
Judicial

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3811 of the Code of Virginia relating to revival of dissolved corporations, and to amend and re-enact section 3812 of the Code of Virginia relating to the settlement of the affairs of a corporation after dissolution.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 199

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of an act entitled "an act to define, and to provide for the management, control, maintenance and operation of, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for such purpose to provide for a board of directors, to set forth the powers and duties thereof; to define its relation to the Arts Commission and to provide for the disposition of any revenues derived by and from the said museum," approved March 27, 1934.
Public expenditures

Chapter 200

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Alexandria, Virginia, approved March 24, 1932, relating to filling vacancies.
Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers
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