Chap. 341.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 12 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December
18, 1936, as amended, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unem-
ployment Compensation Act, relating to employment service. [S B 265]

Approved March 29, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section twelve of chapter one of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Virginia, extra session, nineteen hundred and _thirty-six-nineteen
hundred and thirty-seven, approved December eighteenth, nineteen
hundred and thirty-six, cited as the Virginia Unemployment Com-
pensation Act, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

Section 12. Employment Service——(a) Virginia State Employ-
ment Service.—All rights, powers and duties heretofore vested in the
Department of Labor and Industry, the Free Employment Bureau of
the said Department, and in the Commissioner of Labor, with respect
to the establishment, maintenance and operation of free employment
offices in this State, are hereby transferred to and vested in the com-
mission, which shall possess, exercise and perform the same through
a division known as the Virginia State Employment Service. The
Commissioner of Labor, as a member of the Commission, shall be
the chief executive officer of the Virginia State Employment Service
and shall have such supervision and control over the same as the com-
mission shall prescribe. The commission through the division shall
establish and maintain free public employment offices in such number
and in such places as may be necessary for the proper administration
of this act. The provisions of an act passed by the Congress of the
United States and approved on June sixth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-three, entitled ‘‘an act to provide for the establishment of a
national employment system and for cooperation with the States in
the promotion of such system, and for other purposes,’ having hereto-
fore been accepted by and on behalf of this State, the commission,
through the Virginia State Employment Service, is hereby designated,
in lieu of the Department of Labor and Industry through the Free
Employment Bureau thereof, as the State agency and vested with all
powers necessary, to cooperate with the United States Employment
Service in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in said
act of the Congress of the United States herein referred to. The
commission may cooperate with or enter into agreements with the
Railroad Retirement Board with respect to the maintenance and use
of free employment service facilities.

(b) Financing.—The Treasurer of Virginia is hereby authorized
and empowered to receive all grants of money apportioned to this
State under the act of the Congress of the United States referred to
in the next preceding paragraph of this act. All such funds so re-
ceived shall be paid into the separate employment service account in
the unemployment compensation administration fund, and are hereby
specifically appropriated to the commission for the purpose or pur-
poses for which they are granted unto this State. The disposition
and control of all unexpended appropriations standing to the credit
of the Department of Labor and Industry for the maintenance of
public employment service is hereby transferred to and vested in the
commission, to be credited by the Comptroller to the said employment
service account in the unemployment compensation administration
fund.

For the purpose of maintaining and using free public employment
service facilities, the commission is authorized to enter into agree-
ments with the Railroad Retirement Board, or any other agency of
the United States charged with the administration of an unemploy-
ment compensation law, and as a part of any such agreement the
commission may accept moneys, services, or quarters as a contribution
to the employment service account.