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1936

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 201

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 20 and 21 of an Sct 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, in relation to number plates for motor vehicles, and prescribing penalties for violations.
Transportation

Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, article 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Business, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 203

An ACT to validate bonds issued under the provisions of an act entitled "an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded under the provisions of an act entitled an act to ascertain and declare Virginia’s equitable share of the debt created before and actually existing at the time of the partition of her territory and resources, and to provide for the issuance of bonds covering the same, and the regular and prompt payment of the interest thereon, approved February 14, 1882," approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and to provide for the retirement of said bonds by authorizing and directing the issuance and sale or exchange of $11,750,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, of bonds and/or notes of the Commonwealth of Virginia; to provide for the payment of the interest on such bonds and/or notes herein provided for and the principal thereof at maturity; to allow holders of bonds issued under the said act of 1892 to exchange, upon certain conditions, said bonds for bonds issued under the provisions of this act; to provide for the funding of obligations of the Commonwealth authorized to be funded by an act, approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, remaining unfunded as of the date of issue of bonds herein authorized and for the payment of the principal of and accrued interest on the debt so funded and making an appropriation therefor; to provide for the payment of expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this act and making an appropriation therefor; to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Bonds, Debt, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 204

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 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, said section relating to the advertising for bids.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Industry

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia, approved December 21, 1901, as here- tofore amended, by adding thereto a new section numbered section 22, providing for the establishment of a water commission for the said town, and prescribing the powers and duties of the said commission; requiring the said commission under certain conditions, to construct, operate and maintain water or sewerage systems, or both, in ’ subdivisions of the said town; and fixing the powers and duties of the council with respect to the construction, maintenance and operation of such system or systems.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 27 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, as heretofore amended, said section relating to the civil and police justice.
Judicial, Public officers, Civil Rights, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4981l-a, requiring the docketing of judgments obtained by the Commonwealth in courts of record on forfeited recognizances and bonds, and providing for the payment of the fees for such recordation.
Bonds, Judicial, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 208

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of this State, having in charge, and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to said soldiers and sailors.
Cemeteries, Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 209

An ACT to repeal an act regulating the hunting of ducks from blinds in the counties of Westmoreland, Richmond, Lancaster, Northumberland, and Prince George, approved March 27, 1934, and to add a new section to the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia.
Hunting

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 8 and 17, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 4 of an act entitled “an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,” approved March 11, 1875, in relation to lien on real estate for taxes, and the collection of taxes on real estate.
Taxation, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 117 of an act entitled "An act to provide a new charter for the town of Blackstone, in the county of Nottoway, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 27, 1914, said section being in relation to issuing bonds.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 212

An ACT to prohibit the sale, purchase, use, possession, delivery, distribution, transportation, growth, propagation or donation of drug known as derivatives of plant cannabis sativa (L) and each sale, derivative, compound, mixture or preparation thereof; and to provide punishment therefor.
Healthcare

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize State departments, agencies, bureaus and institutions to accept grants of funds made by the United States, or any department or agency thereof, to be applied to purposes within the functions of such State departments, agencies, bureaus or institutions, respectively, and to administer and expend such funds for the purposes for which they are granted; to ratify and affirm any previous actions of State departments, agencies, bureaus and institutions in accepting and/or administering and expending such grants; to appoint the treasurer of Virginia custodian of such funds and authorize him to disburse the same on warrants issued by such departments, agencies, bureaus and institutions.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 13 of an act entitled ‘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,’ approved March 29, 1934, as heretofore amended, in relation to the salaries and expenses of commissioners of the revenue in cities containing more than 175,000 inhabitants.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Employment and labor, Public officers, Salaries, Taxation

Chapter 215

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 267 and 268 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to preparing and furnishing lists of deeds, judgments and decrees for partition of lands and lands devised by will by clerks of courts in which such deeds and wills are recorded and such judgments and decrees are rendered in cities containing more than one hundred seventy-five thousand inhabitants.
Taxation, Property, Judicial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 216

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of South Boston to issue bonds of the town of South Boston in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), and to provide for the levy of a tax to pay the interest on said bonds and retire the same as they mature.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 217

An ACT for the relief of Edward Meeks.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 218

An ACT to establish an unpaid commission on interstate cooperation, and prescribe the duties of said commission.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 219

An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust taken by persons authorized by law to take acknowledgments and who are trustees in
Property, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create a lien in favor of hospitals for its reasonable charges for caring for persons injured in accidents, the giving of notice of such lien, the effect thereof and to provide for the adjudication of the claims made by hospitals against persons injured in accidents, approved March 24, 1932, so as to include doctors and registered nurses within the provisions of the said act.
Healthcare

Chapter 221

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Thornton Massie.
Charity, Judicial, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 222

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, as heretofore amended, 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, in relation to notice to be given after judgment confessed.
Judicial, Debt, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement, Noncitizens

Chapter 223

An ACT to appropriate, subject to certain conditions $950,000.00 for each year of the biennium beginning July 1, 1936, to assist counties and cities to provide assistance to and for destitute persons in this State in need of public relief and for the purpose of providing for administration of the provisions of this act; to authorize the Governor to transfer certain funds to the State treasury; to provide for the distribution and expenditure of the funds herein appropriated; to require and empower counties and cities to match State funds to be paid to them hereunder; and to prescribe the powers and duties of the State Commissioner of Public Welfare relating to the distribution and expenditure of funds, hereunder.
Public expenditures, Charity, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor

Chapter 224

An ACT to provide for the establishing of systems of pensions and group insurance for injured, retired and superannuated employees, in any county adjoining a city in this State having more than 180,000 inhabitants, and to prescribe how funds may be provided for such purpose.
Pensions, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6556 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to certain exemptions allowed laborers who are householders or heads of families, so as to permit any such householder or head of a family against whom a judgment has been obtained, at the time such judgment is rendered or at any time thereafter, to move the justice or court rendering such judgment to declare certain wages exempt.
Employment and labor, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 226

An ACT to provide for the registration of voters in cities of the second class; to provide for the appointment of general registrars for such cities, and prescribing the powers and duties of such general registrars.
Voting

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5984 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to who are liable to serve as jurors.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Charity

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5191 of the Code of Virginia, relating to release of lien of conditional sales contract.
Business

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2868 of the Code of Virginia relating to jailors and jails in the Commonwealth.
Jails, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 230

An ACT for the relief of H. I°. Minter
Judicial, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 231

An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on the distribution and disposal of surplus State publications; to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; and to appropriate funds for certain expenses in connection with the distribution and disposal of such publications.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Libraries, Business

Chapter 232

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2708 of the Code of Virginia prohibiting city and town officers from being interested in contracts with their city or town.
Amendments, Business, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 233

An ACT to amend Chapter 6 of an act entitled “An act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,’ approved March 11, 1875, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7, in relation to bringing actions against the city for damages.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, the said section relating to common nuisances; how persons punished for maintaining, or aiding and abetting or knowingly associating with others in maintaining same; bonds.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Bonds, Judicial

Chapter 235

An ACT to amend Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act by the addition of two new sections to be known as Section 40-a and Section 41%.
Alcohol, Business, Public officers

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 39 of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act appointing trustees for the town of Christiansburg, in the county of Montgomery, and for other purposes, giving said town a charter, approved January 7, 1833,” approved March 16, 1916, said sections relating to the election, qualification and terms of, and vacancies in, certain municipal officers, so as to provide for the election of the town sergeant.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 618 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to contracts for purchase of school books by State Board of Education.
Education, Public officers

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact "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 cooperation of and with the localities of the Commonwealth; and to appropriate the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars for each year of the biennium beginning July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, 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, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty-four," [S B 272]
Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 239

An ACT to provide for the registration of voters in all cities having a population of not less than 60,000 nor more than 100,000, on serial number cards.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 19 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond,” approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 241

An ACT to create a commission to determine the probable cost of old age pensions or old age assistance in Virginia during each year of a ten-year period beginning with the year 1938; to prescribe the rights, powers and duties of the said commission; and to appropriate to the said commission the sum of $20,000.00 for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.
Pensions, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 242

An ACT to provide for the creation of a Library Building Commission; to prescribe the powers and duties of the said commission; to authorize the Governor to accept certain real estate on behalf of the Commonwealth; and to appropriate $5,000.00 or so much thereof as shall be necessary, for the purpose of securing architectural plans for said building and carrying out the provisions of this act.
Libraries

Chapter 243

An ACT to provide for the creation of a commission for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the formation of the Constitution of the United States; to prescribe the duties of said commission; and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 20 of an act entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond,” approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Amendments, Budget

Chapter 245

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Franklin and Bedford to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the thirtieth judicial circuit.
Budget, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 246

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to institute certain proceedings against persons within or without this State for the recovery of any and all papers and records heretofore removed from the clerk’s office of the circuit court of said county.
Judicial

Chapter 247

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4694-a, prohibiting the manufacture, owning, storing, keeping, possessing, selling, exposing for sale, renting, lending, letting, giving away, transportation, operation and use of, and offering to do any of such acts with reference to, certain machines, apparatus or devices, herein defined as slot machines ; providing penalties for violations; and providing for the seizure and confiscation of such machines, apparatus and devices together with all moneys and tokens therein.
Amendments, Gambling

Chapter 248

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18, 41, 53 and 61 of chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known and designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
Alcohol

Chapter 249

An ACT for the relief of M. F. Powers.
Public expenditures

Chapter 250

An ACT to authorize the commission on Conservation and Development to expend, not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars, under the direction of the Manassas Battlefield Park Association, Incorporated, to pay expenses of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Manassas.
Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 251

An ACT to appropriate $5,000.00 to the State Commission on Conservation and Development to be used in payment of expenses incident to the participation by and on behalf of the State in the dedication of the Shenandoah National Park.
Public expenditures, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 252

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to expend out of funds appropriated to it derived from the tax on motor vehicle fuels the sum of $25,000, for the maintenance and improvement of airplane and airship landing fields owned or leased and operated on a non-profit basis by the counties, cities and towns of the State; and to empower the counties of the State to acquire, establish and operate airplane and airship landing fields.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper,” approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended.
Municipal charters, Property, Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 255

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 50, and 53 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, so as, among other things, to vest in members of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and persons designated by such board general police authority, to provide that judicial notice shall be taken of regulations of such board, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto the following new sections: Section 38-a, providing for the forfeiture and confiscation of certain automobiles, boats, aircraft and other conveyances; Section 48-a, imposing penalties for failing or refusing to obey certain subpoenas and for disturbing decorum of certain meetings; Section 49-a, providing for regulations and permits relating to transportation of the aforementioned alcoholic liquids, beverages and articles; Section 61-a, providing for introduction of chemical analyses as evidence; and Section 61-b, allowing previous convictions hereunder to be alleged and proved.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 256

An ACT to abolish the Virginia War Memorial Commission, to transfer the custody, control and supervision of the Virginia War Memorial Carillon to the State Commission on Conservation and Development, and to appropriate funds for the maintenance, upkeep and operation of the said carillon.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 257

An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development to acquire, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings, or by gift, devise, purchase or any other lawful means, certain lands in the counties of Amelia, Nottoway and Prince Edward, for public parks or public park purposes; to appropriate for such purpose the sum of $1,500.00, or so much thereof as shall be necessary; and to authorize the said commission, through its chairman, to convey, upon certain terms and conditions, the said lands, or any part thereof, so acquired, to the United States of America or such department, institution or agency thereof as may be authorized to accept and preserve the same.
Public spaces, Public expenditures

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5439 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to disbursements by personal representatives to legatees and distributees.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 259

An ACT to provide that upon the sale of any lands belonging to the Commonwealth of Virginia or of any products of such lands, there shall be paid to the United States a certain portion of any profit derived by the Commonwealth as the result of any work on said land sold, or on lands the products of which are sold, done or to be done under a project carried on pursuant to an act of the Congress of The United States entitled, “an act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of public work, and for other purposes,” approved March 31, 1933, and to appropriate a sum sufficient for such purposes.
Property

Chapter 260

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 53, chapter 94, of the acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, the said section relating to transactions between manufacturers, bottlers and wholesalers of alcoholic beverages with persons holding licenses to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in Virginia.
Alcohol

Chapter 261

An ACT to provide for the assessment of real estate in cities con-
Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 262

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 109 thereof 13 new sections numbered 2726 and 2726-a to 2726-1, 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 sheriffs and clerks, and to repeal Sections 2726-m to 2726-y, both inclusive, relating to the same matters.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 263

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 993 of the Code of Virginia, relating to scholarships in State educational institutions, so as to prescribe certain limitations and restrictions upon the granting of such scholarships, and to prohibit the remission of special fees and charges in such institutions except in certain designated cases, and to repeal sections 854, 858 and 938, and 945 and 953, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to the remission of certain fees and charges to students in such institutions, and to repeal an act entitled “An act authorizing the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia to offer one hundred and nineteen State scholarships to students from Virginia, which shall entitle the holder to tuition in the college, room rent, light, heat and attendance free of charge,” approved March 16, 1918.
Education, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 264

An ACT to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development to transfer and convey to the United States of America, or to a department, institution, or agency thereof, or to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, subject to certain conditions, restrictions and reservations, all right, title and interest which the said commission and the Commonwealth has or may hereafter acquire in and to certain lands in Fairfax county, Virginia, and known as Washington’s Old Mill.
Property, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled “An act authorizing the State Commission on Conservation and Development to acquire by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings or by gift, devise, purchase or any other lawful means for the transfer of title, the lands described therein, for public parks or for public park purposes,” approved March 23, 1932, as heretofore amended, so as to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and Development under certain conditions to transfer said lands or a part thereof to the United States of America.
Public spaces, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 266

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey the interest of the Commonwealth in certain property in Henrico county, which is no longer needed for highway purposes, to Anna E. Wagner, in exchange for a parcel of property now owned by Anna E. Wagner, which is needed for highway purposes.
Transportation, Property, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 267

An ACT to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds by cities and towns; to prescribe a mode of procedure therefor; to provide for the payment of such bonds; to validate all bonds so refunded; to prescribe various details pertinent to the subject matter of this act; to provide that any such city or town may avail itself of the provisions of the Act of Congress relating to bankruptcy and municipal debt readjustment; and to declare an emergency.
Bonds, Debt, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 268

An ACT to authorize courts administering or liquidating the estates of insolvent banks or trust companies operating in Virginia, and upon petition of trustees engaged in the voluntary liquidation of the estates of such insolvents, to require creditors to act with diligence in obtaining satisfaction of claims allowed therein upon penalty of having such claims barred.
Business, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 269

An ACT to authorize and empower the county of Henrico in this Commonwealth to acquire by purchase lands situate in said county for the purpose of establishing and maintaining an airport, or aviation landing field, and to establish, construct, improve, equip, maintain, and operate said airport or landing field, and to authorize the lease by the said county of the whole or portions thereof, to individuals or corporations, for the operation of the same, or any part thereof, on such terms and subject to such conditions as may be provided by the board of supervisors of said county; to authorize the lease of the whole or a part thereof to the government of the United States upon a nominal or other rental, or without consideration, for aviation, mail delivery, or other aviation purposes.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 270

An ACT to appropriate $1,000.00 to the State Commission on Conservation and Development, to be used on a matched money basis for the erection of a monument to General J. E. B. Stuart, on which the Confederate veterans of Patrick county may be memorialized, said monument to be erected at Stuart, Virginia.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 105 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 52 of an act entitled 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, approved March 29, 1934
Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 273

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Charlottesville, and to provide a charter and special form of government for the said city, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Charlottesville, approved March 24, 1922, relating to certain powers of the city council, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 26%, authorizing the city council to appoint a city jailor and such deputy jailors as may be necessary and to fix their compensation, and prescribing the powers and duties of such jailors.
Jails, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4, as heretofore amended, 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, according to the latest United States census; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light, power and gas systems in such districts; to provide for the issuance of bonds to raise funds for establishing of such public utilities in such districts, and to provide for the maintenance thereof, and for the payment of such bonds, approved March 27, 1930, so as to provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of sidewalks in such districts.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4473 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to punishment for throwing stones or other missiles at trains, vessels, motor vehicles or buildings.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6268 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings to subject real estate to the payment of debts and providing for the sale of real estate for other purposes.
Debt, Property, Taxation

Chapter 277

An ACT to validate acknowledgments heretofore taken by justices of the peace, mayors of cities or towns, police justices or civil and police justices who by virtue of their offices had the powers and authority of justices of the peace, where such justices or mayors or police justices or civil and police justices are designated in the certificates of acknowledgment as police justices or as civil and police justices.
Judicial

Chapter 278

An ACT to authorize the Armory Commission to acquire lands in the vicinity of the State Military Reservation near Virginia Beach, Princess Anne county, Virginia, suitable for drill, instruction and administration purposes; and to appropriate funds for such purpose.
Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 279

An ACT for the relief of the Jefferson Hospital, Incorporated,
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 280

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Waterford, in Loudoun county, approved March 11, 1875, and all amendments thereof.
Incorporation

Chapter 281

An ACT to delete from the primary system of State highways five miles of route 120 extending southwestwardly from Boone Mill and to transfer the same to the secondary system of State highways; and to add five miles to route 41 of the primary system of State highways.
Transportation

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Independence, in the county of Grayson, approved March 27, 1934, by adding thereto a new section numbered 7-a, providing how persons convicted of violating town ordinances may be required to work on the streets and roads in said town.
Amendments, Jails, Labor, Municipal charters, Public officers, Property

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 63 of chapter 34 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 13, 1914, March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, March 25, 1914, February 5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March 20, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk, approved February 7, 1918, so as to prescribe the conditions under which officers and employees of the division of fire and the division of police may be discharged.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 284

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey to W. M. Nieswander, certain real estate in Linville Magisterial District, Rockingham county, Virginia.
Transportation, Property

Chapter 285

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commissioner to convey to the Building and Loan Company of Manchester, Incorporated, a certain parcel of real estate in Chesterfield county no longer needed for State highway purposes, in exchange for a parcel of land now owned by the Building and Loan Company of Manchester, Incorporated.
Transportation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act for the protection of squirrels in the counties of Caroline, Henrico and King George,” approved March 26, 1932, so as to eliminate Caroline and Henrico counties therefrom, and to include the counties of Stafford, Prince William, Spotsylvania and Fairfax therein.
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 287

An ACT to authorize and provide for the licensing, establishment, and regulation of shooting preserves and for the releasing, shooting, possession, and use of upland game birds and animals thereon.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 288

An ACT to require certain officers to deposit in bank to the credit of an official account, all money received or collected for or on account of the Commonwealth, or any county, city, town, or person, subject to certain exceptions; to relieve such officers from liability upon certain conditions, and to prescribe penalties.
Budget, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 289

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled 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, approved March 29, 1934, which section relates to said restrictions.
Confederate, Public spaces

Chapter 290

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, in relation to hunting, trapping or fishing on privately owned lands in certain counties and sections of the State.
Hunting, Fishing

Chapter 291

An ACT to release the United States of America, and any contractor therefor or agent thereof, from any and all claims for damages to the oyster and other public interests of the Commonwealth of Virginia by reason of the dredging and maintenance, by the United States or any such contractor or agent of, including the deposit of material in connection with, a navigable channel in and from Back river into and in Wallace creek, Elizabeth City county, Virginia.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 292

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, relating to the charter of the city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, approved March 3, 1896, as heretofore amended, so as to authorize the appointment of a city trial justice, substitute trial justice and clerk of the trial justice court for the city of Harrisonburg, and prescribing the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justice, substitute trial justice and clerk; prescribing fees to be charged and collected by said trial justices and clerk.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 293

An ACT to make it unlawful to shoot, kill, wound, hunt, chase, or molest, or permit or encourage the hunting, chasing or molesting of any deer at any time in the counties of Bland, Buchanan, Wise, Dickenson, Lee, Scott, Washington, Russell, Tazewell, Wythe, Smyth, Carroll, Grayson, Floyd, Patrick, Montgomery, Pulaski and Giles, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Hunting

Chapter 294

An ACT to authorize the Town Council of the Town of Orange, to issue bonds in the sum of $50,000, to be used in refunding certain water bonds and water improvement bonds heretofore issued, and providing for the assessment and collection of certain taxes for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of chapter 247, acts 1930, relating to permits under the game and fish laws.
Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 296

An ACT to prescribe the open season for hunting, capturing or killing foxes in the county of Washington.
Hunting

Chapter 297

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to impose a license tax on pistols and revolvers; to regulate the sale thereof and of ammunition therefor; and to provide that the proceeds of such tax shall be used for the establishment of a diseased and crippled children’s hospital
Repeal of legislation, Children -- Institutional care, Taxation

Chapter 298

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 124 thereof a new section numbered 3105-a, prescribing the conditions upon which warrants or other process, issued upon certain claims or causes of action of which civil and police justices are given jurisdiction, may be made returnable before such justices; and providing that such warrants or other process may be directed to a constable, sheriff or sergeant of any county or city wherein the defendant resides or may be found, and prescribing in what instances such warrants may be served in a county or corporation other than that in which the action is brought.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement

Chapter 299

An ACT to require that the bonds of all officers and employees of the departments, agencies and institutions of the Commonwealth, except the Division of Accounts and Control, be filed in the office of the State Comptroller, and that the bonds of all such officers and employees in the Division of Accounts and Control be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Bonds

Chapter 300

An ACT to authorize the Special Board of Directors of the Southwestern State Hospital, at Marion, to convey certain real estate belonging to said hospital to the Chamber of Commerce of Marion, Incorporated.
Healthcare, Property, Business, Public expenditures
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