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1936

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 400 of 445

Chapter 301

An ACT to authorize the Special Board of Directors of the Eastern State Hospital to convey to the city of Williamsburg for cemetery purposes not exceeding one and one-quarter acres of the lands of such hospital.
Cemeteries, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 302

An ACT to authorize the city of Hampton, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds in the amount of $10,000.00 to be used in the purchase of a site and paying for certain skilled labor incident to the building of an armory in said city, in conjunction with a United States Work’s Progress Administration Project, 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, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Armed forces

Chapter 303

An ACT acquiring a non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable license
Voting

Chapter 304

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1080-a of the Code of Virginia, providing for the appointment of guardians, or committees, for persons mentally and physically incapacitated, but not feebleminded.
Civil Rights

Chapter 305

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, in relation to defining the word “poultry.”
Agriculture, Hunting, Law Enforcement

Chapter 306

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3424-b, requiring clerks of courts in which revocation or suspension proceedings against attorneys at law are had, or in which an attorney is convicted of a felony, to give notice thereof to the clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals and to the secretary of the Virginia State Board of Bar Examiners.
Lawyers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 307

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 6437-a and 6437-b, in relation to, and providing a method for, obtaining the release of mechanics liens and other similar liens by the payment of money into court, or by filing bond with security.
Property, Bonds, Business

Chapter 308

An ACT to authorize the court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, or the judge thereof in vacation, to destroy certain papers, books and records filed in the case of W. J. Williams et al v. The Peoples Bank of Portsmouth et al., recently pending in the said court.
Judicial, Business, Debt

Chapter 309

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Hanover county to appropriate a sum not to exceed $5,000.00 to the Patrick Henry Bi-Centennial, Incorporated, for the purpose of aiding in the celebration of the bi-centennial of the birth of Patrick Henry; and to declare an emergency.
Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 310

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Stafford to maintain and operate a water or sewerage system, or both, in the village of Falmouth in the said county, and to prescribe their powers and duties with respect to such maintenance and operation.
Utilities

Chapter 311

An ACT to validate the proceedings and acts of the council, the election officials and certain officers, of the town of Berryville, in connection with the ordering and holding of an election on the question of the issuing of $30,000.00 of bonds of said town to provide a sewerage system and disposal plant, and in connection with the issuance of said bonds and fixing the rate of interest thereon; and to provide that said bonds shall be valid and binding obligations of said town.
Bonds, Budget, Utilities

Chapter 312

An ACT validating, ratifying, approving and confirming the creation of all sanitary districts of this Commonwealth and all proceedings taken for such creation as of the date of such creation or proceedings, and validating, ratifying, approving and confirming elections heretofore held for, and proceedings heretofore taken relative to, the issuance of bonds in sanitary districts.
Public expenditures, Bonds, Utilities

Chapter 313

An ACT to determine the nature of sanitary districts heretofore or hereafter created in this State from and after the date of such creation, and determining the nature of improvements therein.
Public expenditures, Taxation, Utilities

Chapter 314

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 638, 641, 642, 643, 649, 653, 655, 656, 657, 660, 667, 669, 673, 674, 683, 684, 688, 695, 700, 707, 708, and 716 of the Code of Virginia, Sections 611, 612, 638, 642, 649, 653, 655, 656, 660, 673, 683, 684, 688 and 695 of which have heretofore been amended, all of which sections relate to the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, division superintendents, county and city school boards, the literary fund, and to the establishment, maintenance and administration of the public school system, so as, among other things, to make certain of said sections applicable to cities, to validate county bond elections, to prescribe qualifications of certain teachers for purposes of compulsory education; to provide for settlements of treasurers with school boards, and to prohibit school boards from employing their members for certain purposes; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered six hundred and ninety-eight, providing for the levying of taxes and the appropriation of moneys in counties, cities and towns for public school purposes, and to repeal section six hundred and ninety-eight-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the same matter, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered seven hundred and forty-one, relating to the qualifications of drivers of school buses and the methods by which their fitness shall be determined; and to prohibit the school board from employing certain persons related to the Division Superintendent.
Education, Public expenditures, Taxation, Amendments, Employment and labor, Judicial, Healthcare

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to prevent the trapping of foxes in the counties of Albemarle, Nelson and Amherst,” approved March 16, 1920, so as to omit from such act the county of Amherst.
Hunting, Amendments

Chapter 316

An ACT to release and transfer to the United States all rights pos-
Wildlife, Hunting, Public spaces

Chapter 317

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

Chapter 318

An ACT to name that portion of Route Five of the State Highway System between Richmond and Williamsburg “The John Tyler Memorial Highway.”
Transportation, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 319

An ACT for the protection of deer and elk in this State by providing for the killing of any dog found to be, or proven to have been, pursuing or tracking any deer or elk in any county in the State; to provide that the owner of any such dog shall have a hearing in certain instances; to prescribe penalties to be imposed upon owners of such dogs; and to provide that this act shall not be operative in any county unless and until adopted by the board of supervisors, or other governing body, thereof.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 320

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Fairfax county to levy a special tax to provide fire protection for said county, and to pay certain existing indebtedness of, and to purchase fire fighting equipment for, duly organized fire fighting companies in said county
Fire fighters, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 321

An ACT to protect trade mark owners, distributors and the public against injurious and uneconomic practices in the distribution of articles under a distinguishing trade mark, brand or name; to authorize certain provisions to be included in contracts relative to the sale or resale thereof; and to provide remedies.
Business

Chapter 322

An ACT authorizing the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia to sell and convey certain lands.
Education, Property, Public officers

Chapter 323

An ACT to authorize, under certain conditions and under the direc-tion and control of certain courts, assignments by certain persons of salary, wages and income to trustees for the benefit of creditors; defining the power and duties of such trustees and fixing their compensation; and prescribing the effect of such assignments as to creditors of the parties so assigning.
Debt, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 324

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 2769, fixing the compensation and mileage of members of boards of supervisors of counties, and to repeal Section 2769-a of the Code of Virginia relating to similar matters.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918,” approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended.
Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Custody of children, Public expenditures, Wards

Chapter 326

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to require persons or corporations doing business under an assumed or fictitious name, and persons doing business as copartners, to sign, acknowledge, and file a certificate; to designate what the certificate shall contain; to provide for recordation of such certificate, to fix fees of the clerk, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act,’ approved March 23, 1922, in relation to persons or corporations doing business under assumed or fictitious names, or as partners, making and recording certain certificates, appointing statutory at-orney and providing for personal judgments in certain cases, upon service of process on such agent.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 47 of Chapter 242 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, which chapter constitutes, and may be designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, said section being in relation to taxing, driving or using a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent, and prescribing penalites therefor.
Taxation, Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 328

An ACT to prohibit any and all institutions owned and operated by the State of Virginia from selling or exchanging seed corn to be used for agricultural purposes in the State of Virginia, unless to such institution or institutions as may be entirely owned and operated by the State of Virginia and entirely supported by State funds.
Agriculture, Business, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 329

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 222 of the Tax Code of Virginia relating to taxes on corporations which operate steamships, steamboats or other floating property for the transportation of passengers or freight.
Taxation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 330

An ACT to empower the governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to adopt ordinances, regulations, and other measures for controlling the spread of rabies and the running at large of vicious and/or destructive dogs within their boundaries, and to provide penalties for the violation of any such ordinances.
Public spaces

Chapter 331

An ACT to define who are to be deemed Virginia citizens and residents within the purview of the laws conferring upon them certain privileges in relation to the State institutions of higher learning.
Education, Civil Rights, Noncitizens, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 332

An ACT to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to sell, transfer and convey certain real estate, together with buildings thereon, situated in the city of Petersburg, and to provide for the disposition of proceeds derived from the sale of such property.
Education, Property, Public expenditures, Charity, Municipal charters

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 994 of the Code of Virginia, relating to donations to educational institutions in the State.
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 334

An ACT to provide for the establishment, maintenance and operation of a tannery at the State Penitentiary Farm, and to provide funds therefor.
Industry, Prisons, Public expenditures, Agriculture

Chapter 335

An ACT to regulate the business of cleaning, dyeing and pressing; defining what constitutes engaging in said business, as well as defining certain other words; creating a State Dry Cleaners Board; empowering and authorizing said board to promulgate rules and regulations; requiring the issuance of licenses by said board as a prerequisite to engaging in said business, and providing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions of this act; and providing that this act shall apply in all cities, and in any counties when two-thirds of the resident persons actively engaged in the cleaning, dyeing and pressing business in such counties petition the State Dry Cleaners Board to be entitled to the benefits of this act, then such counties shall be governed by this act.
Business, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 336

An ACT to permit persons, associations, partnerships, or corporations of the State of Virginia to borrow funds from production credit associations, regional agricultural credit corporation, banks for cooperatives, or the government of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, federal intermediate credit banks or any institution which has made arrangements to discount therewith or to procure funds therefrom on the security of the obligation of the borrower and providing a means of securing said loans
Agriculture, Business, Property, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 337

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the adoption of minor children by adult persons, so as to provide for reporting adoptions to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees for sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Property

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prescribe how a new day for the execution of the sentence of death shall be fixed, and dispensing with the presence of the person to be executed, approved March 20, 1922, so as to prescribe a new day for the execution of a sentence in case of a reprieve by the Governor.
Death and burial, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5393-a, relating to the powers of surviving executors and of administrators with the will annexed.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6298-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to surviving and substitute trustees in the case of discretionary trusts.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 342

An ACT to establish within the primary system of the State highways and as a part thereof, the Richmond Battlefield Park Division of the State highways, to consist of the route followed by General Stuart in his ride around McClellan’s army and the principal routes over which the armies moved in converging upon the battlefields around Richmond in the campaigns of 1862 and 1864.
Transportation

Chapter 343

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1020 of the Code of Virginia in relation to committing incompetent persons to State institutions, so as to allow incompetent veterans to be committed to a Veterans’ Administration Facility.
Amendments, Armed forces, Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 59 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, relating to reports of accidents, so as to permit the inspection of such reports at any reasonable time.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Coroner

Chapter 345

An ACT to prohibit the pollution of certain waters in the county of Isle of Wight, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Education

Chapter 346

An ACT to authorize counties, districts, cities and towns to issue bonds for the purpose of funding floating indebtedness; to prescribe how such bonds may be issued, and the terms thereof as to interest and time to run; to provide how such bonds may be sold or disposed of and how the proceeds shall be applied; to provide for the levying of taxes for the payment of such bonds; and to validate the principal of such bonds and the interest thereon and also the floating indebtedness to be funded.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 347

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, as heretofore amended, 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 the State
Judicial

Chapter 348

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, so as to provide for working certain prisoners confined in jail.
Jails, Prisons, Labor, Employment and labor

Chapter 349

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3813-c, authorizing purchasers of real estate, and their successors in title, purchased from certain dissolved corporations, to maintain suits to quiet title to such real estate and to remove clouds therefrom, prescribing the jurisdiction of such suits, authorizing the appointment of receivers, directing the defense of such suits by such receivers, and providing that no stockholders, officers or directors of such dissolved corporations formerly owning said real estate, need be defendants thereto.
Property, Business, Judicial

Chapter 350

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4764 of the Code of Virginia.
Judicial

Chapter 351

An ACT to ratify, confirm and validate a deed of correction from A. W. Ward and wife to the Commonwealth of Virginia, dated August 30, 1935, and duly of record in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Albemarle county in deed book 229, page 7.
Property

Chapter 352

An ACT to provide equal educational facilities for certain persons denied admission to Virginia State colleges, universities, and institutions of higher learning.
Education, Equality before the law, Civil Rights

Chapter 353

An ACT to create and provide for the Hampton Roads Sewage Disposal Commission; to provide for the appointment and removal of the members thereof; to fix their compensation; to prescribe the rights, powers and duties of the said Commission; to authorize and empower the said Commission to acquire, own, construct, reconstruct, replace, improve, repair, maintain, operate and use trunk, intercepting and outlet sewers, pumping and ventilating stations, treatment plants or works and other plants and structures to relieve waters in Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay and in certain rivers and creeks and certain other tributaries, from pollution and to prevent the pollution of the same; to authorize the making of certain contracts and agreements with and by counties, cities and towns; and to appropriate to the said commission the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 116 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, relating to weighing vehicles, so as to authorize officers to collect weighing charges for excess loads, [H B 494]
Transportation, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 355

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of counties having a density of population of more than five hundred per square mile according to the last United States census, to divide the area of said counties into one or more districts, and in such districts to regulate the use of land and of buildings or other structures and the height thereof, and also to establish building lines and to regulate and restrict the construction and location of buildings and other structures in said counties; to authorize such boards of supervisors to adopt all necessary regulations for carrying into effect the purposes of this act; to provide for zoning commissioners and boards of zoning appeals in such counties, their powers and duties; to provide for appeals from such zoning commissioners and boards of appeals and the effect thereof; to authorize such boards of supervisors to appoint administrative officers; to prescribe the powers and duties of such administrative officers; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violations thereof, approved April 11, 1927, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section numbered 6-a, prescribing the conditions upon which zoning regulations, restrictions and boundaries may be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed in event 7 pre
Amendments, Property

Chapter 356

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 2772-a relating to the compensation of clerks of boards of supervisors; and to repeal section 2773 of the Code of Virginia.
Budget, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5904-b, 5904-c and 5904-e, of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to county courts, so as to provide for jurisdiction and procedure in actions in detinue, attachments and garnishments, and to provide for the disposition of fees collected by, and for the expenses of, the clerk of such court.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Property, Municipal charters, Debt

Chapter 358

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Smyth county to make annual allowances, as salaries, to two deputy sheriffs in said county
Salaries, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 359

An ACT to amend 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, by adding thereto a new section numbered 4l-a, to provide for the school board of said town to borrow money for the purpose of erecting school houses and to issue bonds therefor.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 360

An ACT to amend chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, as amended, and designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section numbered 35-e, in relation to registration fees assessed by cities and towns.
Transportation, Business, Taxation

Chapter 361

An ACT to authorize the school board of Scott county to rent, lease or otherwise permit to be occupied and used, high school buildings and grounds for holding county fairs, carnivals, and similar exhibitions on such premises
Amusement, Education, Public spaces

Chapter 362

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 63 and 64 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, Virginia, as amended by act approved March 24, 1920, as amended by act approved March 10, 1928, and to add thereto a new section to be known as section 64-a.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Property, Civil Rights, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 363

An ACT to authorize the county school board of certain counties to pay its members an annual salary of not in excess of three hundred dollars, in lieu of per diem.
Education, Salaries

Chapter 364

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 16, 19, 21, 22 and 28 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter for said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved, respectively, February 29, 1892; February 24, 1896; March 3, 1898; January 13, 1900; January 30, 1900; February 23, 1901; the two acts of May 15, 1903; March 2, 1914; March 9, 1916, and the act of December 26, 1903, which became a law without the Governor’s signature; and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Hampton, approved March 16, 1920, as heretofore amended; to repeal section 23 of the said act; and to provide for the effect of said repeal; and to prescribe the conditions upon which the said amendments and the said repeal shall become effective.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Budget, Public officers, Judicial, Property

Chapter 365

An ACT to authorize the payment, with the approval of the Governor, out of the unexpended balance of money appropriated to the Division of Motor Vehicles for the biennium ending June 30, 1936, of fees for professional services rendered in the defense of police officers of the said division in prosecutions for alleged criminal acts committed by such officers while in the discharge of their official duties.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 366

An ACT to validate and legalize the action of the town council of the town of Berryville in the appointment of G. Kenneth Levi, recorder.
Municipal charters

Chapter 367

An ACT to authorize the issuance of bonds by county school boards of counties in the State of Virginia for the purpose of providing funds for school improvements in said counties, including the purchase of sites for school buildings or additions to school buildings, the construction of school buildings or additions to school buildings, and the furnishing and equipping of school buildings or additions to school buildings.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 368

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 31 of chapter 247, Acts 1930, relating to permits.
Hunting, Wildlife, Business

Chapter 369

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as last amended by an act approved March 24, 1932.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 370

An ACT to prohibit the use of the word “certified” or other like word or form of words in advertising or selling of certain seeds, tubers and plants in the State of Virginia unless inspected and certified as provided for in this act; to provide for such inspection and certification and the expenses incident thereto; and to prescribe penalties.
Agriculture

Chapter 371

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, building and loan associations, industrial loan associations, credit unions and small loan companies, to expend the same and for other purposes.
Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 372

An ACT to require bonds issued by any county or magisterial district in this State after January 1, 1937, to be made payable in certain installments.
Bonds, Budget

Chapter 373

An ACT to provide for the release of the liability of members of the boards of supervisors of counties for pay drawn by them in excess of the amount prescribed by law in certain cases, and to provide for the release of judgments heretofore recovered for such excess pay.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 374

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the State Board of Education to waive or modify certain statutory limitations and restrictions on making loans from the literary fund to county and city school boards, and to confer on the State Board of Education discretionary powers in lending money from the literary fund to school boards, for the purpose of enabling school boards to meet, to comply with and take advantage of the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, approved September 13, 1933, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1934.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 375

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 671 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to plans and requirements for the construction of public school buildings, condemnation of unsafe or unfit buildings, fire escapes and exits, and fire drills, so as to authorize the State Board of Education to require such changes in public school buildings as may be necessary for safety against fire and panic hazards, and to withhold from any county, city or town failing to meet such requirements certain State school funds.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 376

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 381, as amended, 386, 388, 389, 390, 393 and 394 of the Code of Virginia relating to public printing so as to prescribe the powers and duties of the Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing and the Director of the Division of the Budget with reference thereto, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 393-a, providing for the editing and printing of reports and publications of departments, officers, boards, commissions and other agencies of the Commonwealth; and to repeal section 280 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as heretofore amended, relating to the printing and distribution of annual reports.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 377

An ACT to authorize the city of Danville to acquire, own, construct, operate and maintain a street railway system and electric and gasoline buses in the city of Danville and Pittsylvania county.
Transportation

Chapter 378

An ACT to ratify and approve the boundary line between Virginia and the District of Columbia as determined and described by the District of Columbia-Virginia Boundary Commission; to establish and declare the said line as the boundary between Virginia and the District of Columbia when ratified by the Congress of the United States; and to authorize the Governor to cooperate in having the said line surveyed, marked and documented.
Boundaries

Chapter 379

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of an act entitled “An act to provide for licensing dealers in motor fuel; to require certain reports by such dealers and certain other persons; to levy a tax upon motor fuel; to provide for its collection; to appropriate the revenue raised by the same; to prescribe penalties for violations; and to repeal an act of the General Assembly entitled an act to levy a tax upon motor vehicle fuel; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same, and to prescribe penalties, approved March 26, 1923, and to repeal all acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1932,” as heretofore amended, in relation to refunds of taxes paid on motor fuel.
Taxation, Transportation, Agriculture, Public expenditures

Chapter 380

An ACT to provide for the compensation of city sergeants in cities having a population of not less than 120,000 nor more than 150,000 according to the last United States census; and cities having a population between 40,000 and 44,000; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying salaries and the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide for the payment of such salaries and expenses; to provide for the collection of certain fees and charges by and for city sergeants and for the disposition of the same; to provide for the maintenance of prisoners in jails in cities and for food, clothing and medicine for such prisoners
Public officers, Salaries, Jails, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 381

An ACT giving the consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States of America and any contractor or agent thereof to use certain marsh lands owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an area for the disposal of materials resulting from dredging and maintaining a navigable channel in Starlings creek, in ‘Accomac county and to release the United States of America and its contractors and agents from claims for damages accruing to the Commonwealth as a result of the dredging and maintenance of such channel.
Transportation

Chapter 382

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 18 and 19 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the acquisition of lands by the United States of America, so as to prescribe the rights, powers and jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America over and with respect to such lands, and persons and property thereon, and transactions, matters and things arising thereon, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto two new sections numbered 19-a and 19-b, giving the conditional consent of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to the acquisition by the United States of America of certain lands in Virginia, and prescribing the limitations imposed upon and the reservations incident to any transfer of such lands; and prescribing the respective jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of the United States of America over such lands, over persons and property thereon, and over any transactions, matters and things arising thereon; and to repeal certain acts pertaining to the same subject.
Boundaries, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 383

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 154 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to filing notice of candidacy, so as to require petitions to be filed by persons who are not party nominees.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 384

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled "An act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith," approved March 31, 1932 [H B 13]
Transportation

Chapter 385

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto fifteen new sections, numbered 4987-a to 4987-0, both inclusive, providing for the appointment of trial justices and substitute trial justices in counties and in certain counties and cities; providing for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices, and prescribing the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices, substitute trial justices and clerks; providing that trial justices, substitute trial justices, and their clerks, selected and functioning under other acts, shall be subject to the said fifteen new sections as if appointed thereunder; providing for the appointment of associate trial justices in certain counties and prescribing their terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation; providing for continuity between this and prior trial justice systems; enlarging authority of justices of the peace and mayors to issue attachments, warrants and subpoenas and as issuing officers; prescribing fees to be charged and collected by trial justices and clerks and providing for the disposition of moneys collected by such officers; appropriating for such purposes the sum of $60,000 annually for distribution among the counties; and exempting certain counties until they adopt the provisions of the foregoing sections; and to repeal Sections 4983 and 4988-a to 4988-p, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia and certain other acts providing for the appointment or selection of trial justices, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 386

An ACT to authorize and empower the Governor of Virginia to grant, transfer and convey, to the United States of America two certain tracts or parcels of submerged land in Mill Creek, Elizabeth City county, lying adjacent to the Fort Monroe military reservation and containing approximately 36.2 acres, deed to define the jurisdiction of the State and the United States over said lands.
Armed forces, Property, Boundaries

Chapter 387

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 35 of an act 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, as heretofore amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1934, in relation to registration fees.
Transportation, Registration of births, etc., Public expenditures, Taxation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 388

An ACT to prohibit the use of hooks, snaps, or other fastener or device of metal in attaching cards, labels or tickets to bags or sacks containing feed-stuff for livestock, and to provide penalties.
Agriculture

Chapter 389

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 46 of Chapter 247, Acts 1930, relating to the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 390

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1110, 1111, 1112, and 1120 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fertilizers.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 391

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4436 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to wilful burning of property with intent to injure insurer, and how punished. H B 170
Property, Amendments

Chapter 392

An ACT to empower the councils or other governing bodies of cities and towns to release the liability and liens for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid taxes due such cities and towns for any year or years prior to and including the year 1935 provided such taxes are paid within six months after the effective date of this act.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business, Fishing, Wildlife, Utilities, Healthcare, Public spaces

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 5 and 15 of an act entitled an act concerning agricultural seeds, and to repeal sections 1138 to 1153, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, approved March 7, 1924, as heretofore amended, and to repeal section 4 of the said act.
Agriculture, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 395

An ACT to amend the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 19-g, in relation to waterfowl hunting on Back Bay and its tributaries, and North Landing river, in Princess Anne county and licenses for blinds, and prescribing penalties; and to repeal chapter 392 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1928 and all acts amendatory thereof, the same being an act to provide for the protection of wild water fowl in the public waters of Back Bay and its tributaries and North Landing river, the title to which is copied at length in the repealing clause of this act.
Hunting, Wildlife, Fishing

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact section forty-two hundred and sixty-seven of chapter one hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia.
Business, Amendments

Chapter 397

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Martinsville, Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Healthcare, Fire fighters, Law Enforcement, Public spaces

Chapter 398

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to license tax upon slot machines.
Taxation, Gambling, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 399

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact Section 5553 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 24, 1930.
Agriculture, Business, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections (f), (i), (j) and (k) of section 29 of chapter 64 of the acts of 1922, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Suffolk 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 said city of Suffolk
Judicial, Municipal charters, Property, Civil Rights

Chapter 401

An ACT to provide for the licensing of persons engaged in peanut picking by or with any machine; to require all such persons to keep records and make reports to commissioners of the revenue as to acreage and quantity of peanuts picked; to require commissioners of the revenue to make reports thereof to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration; and to prescribe penalties for violations, [H B 347]
Agriculture
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