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1940

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to authorize and empower the City of Williamsburg, Virginia, acting by and through its Mayor and Council, to grant to the United States of America, subject to certain conditions, restrictions and reservations, a perpetual easement in certain streets, alleys and other lands in the City of Williamsburg, Virginia, for the construction, maintenance and operation of a permanent vehicular tunnel forming a part of the right of way for the Colonial Parkway through the said city; and to approve, ratify and confirm the execution by the City of Williamsburg of a certain agreement between the said city and the United States of America with respect to such easement.
Transportation

Chapter 2

An ACT to provide that the Board of Supervisors of any County in this Commonwealth having an area of not less than 500 square miles nor more than 600 square miles and a population of not less than 16,500 nor more than 18,000 according to the last United States census may establish a police force under the terms and conditions set forth herein.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 3

An ACT validating, ratifying, approving and confirming the creation of Sanitary District No. 5 in Henrico County, Virginia
Public expenditures, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 4

An ACT to name the bridge across the Norfolk and Western Railroad near the town of Abingdon in Washington County, on the State highway designated United States Highway No. 11, the ‘General John H. Morgan Memorial Bridge’
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 5

An ACT to validate $55,500.00 of 2 per cent general obligation bonds issued by the city of Williamsburg, in pursuance of an ordinance of the City Council, and of an election on the question, held on November 7, 1939, the proceeds of said bonds to be used in connection with the erection of a public school building in said city, for colored children.
Bonds, Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 27, of an act 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, 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, as heretofore amended, and to prescribe the conditions upon which this act shall become effective, in whole or in part.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 7

An ACT to authorize the Town of Jarratt in Sussex County to issue bonds in the amount of $17,000.00 for the purpose of constructing a water works and water supply and sewer system, to authorize the redemption of such bonds, and to provide for the levy of a tax to pay interest on said bonds and to retire the same as they mature.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 8

An ACT validating certain outstanding indebtedness of the City of Hampton, Virginia, incurred for the dredging of Hampton Harbor and certain outstanding indebtedness of the City of Hampton, Virginia, incurred for the purchase of a site for a City Hall and the building of a City Hall in the City of Hampton, Virginia, and authorizing said city to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of refunding such indebtedness and certain funds to the general fund of the said city, and to require the council of said city annually to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 9

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

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize and empower the Chairman of the State Highway Commission to execute, in the name of the Commonwealth, deeds conveying sections of roads or other property deemed no longer necessary for the uses of the State Highway System
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 11

An ACT to change the name of Poor Valley, in the county of Tazewell, to Freestone Valley.
Boundaries

Chapter 12

An ACT to name the bridge across Hazel River in Culpeper County approximately one mile north of Rixeyville on route number 29 of the State Highway System the ‘Major John R. Kerrick Bridge.'
Transportation

Chapter 13

An ACT to make it lawful for German carp to be taken by means of gigs and artificial lights in the Shenandoah River in the counties of Page, Rockingham, Clarke, Warren and Shenandoah at certain times and under certain conditions, and to provide that this act shall not affect certain powers and duties of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries nor cause any discrimination as to restocking of the said Shenandoah River.
Fishing

Chapter 14

An ACT ceding to the United States of America, upon certain conditions, exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands adjacent to or near the Hampton Roads Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, and at or near the Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia, for naval purposes.
Armed forces

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1638 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to optometry and to the practice of optometry.
Healthcare

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3875-a, authorizing any stock corporation organized to operate an educational institution to amend its charter so as to become a corporation not organized for profit and without capital stock.
Education, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 40 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to departments of law enforcement in certain counties adopting the County Manager form of organization and government.
Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4537-b, making it a misdemeanor for any person, without just cause, to call or otherwise summon, any ambulance.
Amendments, Public officers, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘‘An act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper,”’
Municipal charters, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 20

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county adjoining a city having a population of more than 100,000 and less than 150,000, according to the last preceding United States census, to levy a special assessment in any magisterial district for fire protection, lights, drainage and other improvements, and to validate levies heretofore made for such purposes.
Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Utilities

Chapter 21

An ACT to name the bridge on State Highway No. 7 across the Shenandoah River, in Clarke County, the ‘Castleman’s Ferry Bridge.’
Transportation

Chapter 22

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission of Virginia to relocate a certain section of Route 8 of the primary system of State highways.
Transportation

Chapter 23

An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies of counties, cities and towns to enter into certain agreements for the purpose of providing for their respective counties, cities and towns paintings, carvings, sculpture and other works of art; and for such purposes to authorize such boards of supervisors, councils and other governing bodies to furnish materials, services and supplies and to appropriate and expend mon
Public spaces

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1569 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the duties of undertakers, and to the removal, transportation and burial of bodies of dead persons, and to repeal Section 1728 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the transportation of the bodies of dead persons.
Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law), Cemeteries

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 129 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1938, approved March 12, 1938, so as to provide, among other things, to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns to adopt ordinances prohibiting or regulating the sale of wine and beer, or either of them, between certain hours of certain days; to provide for the issuance of retail beer and wine licenses in accordance with the provisions of, and the suspension or revocation of such licenses of persons convicted of violation of such ordinances: and to provide that such ordinances when so adopted so likewise prohibit the sale of beverages as defined in Chapter 3 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1933, approved August 29, 1933, and the consumption of wine, beer and beverages, or any one or more of them, upon any establishment licensed to sell wine, beer or beverages, or any one or more of them.
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact 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 adding thereto a new section, numbered 14, so as, among other things, to provide for the furnishing of counsel to the members, agents or employees of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board should they be sued, arrested, indicted, or otherwise prosecuted because of any matter arising out of their employment; and to provide for the compensation of any counsel so employed.
Alcohol, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 20 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, as heretofore amended, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, so as, among other things, to provide when the Board may refuse to grant licenses; and to require of wholesale wine distributors a bond in the penal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, ($10,000.00).
Alcohol, Amendments, Business

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 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 provide definitions for the various terms and words contained in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Public spaces, Recreation, Taxation

Chapter 29

An ACT to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission, with the approval of the Governor and subject to certain conditions and restrictions, to lease to any responsible organization or group of individuals all or any part of certain lands, with improvements and appurtenances, in Fairfax County, Virginia, known as Washington’s Old Mill.
Agriculture, Business, Property, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 30

An ACT to ratify and validate, for all purposes, an issue of $750,000 of certificates of indebtedness of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg, issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 58 of Chapter 428 (the Appropriation Act) of the Acts of 1938, which are now owned and held as a part of the State Literary Fund, to authorize the sale of same to the general public by the State Board of Education, and to validate and re-enact all of the provisions of said Section 58.
Agriculture, Budget, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 31

An ACT to validate certain bonded indebtedness of the school board of the city of Hampton, Virginia, and to authorize the said school board of Hampton, Virginia, to issue bonds for the purpose of refunding such indebtedness and to require the council of the said city of Hampton, Virginia, annually to levy taxes to pay the interest on, and the principal of, the said bonds herein authorized to be issued.
Bonds, Budget, Education, Taxation

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6096 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the filing of petitions by certain persons in pending chancery causes, so as to provide that such petitions may be filed without first obtaining leave of court.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new section thereto, to be numbered Section 216-b, in relation to the taxation of persons, firms, associations and corporations engaged in the business of operating motor vehicles for the transportation of persons or property, or both, over fixed routes within the limits of any city or town within this State.
Taxation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 34

An ACT to prescribe the jurisdiction and authority of police justices in cities containing not less than 100,000 nor more than 150,000 inhabitants, to provide for appeals from such police justices, and to provide that this act shall be supplemental to and not in derogation of existing law.
Judicial

Chapter 35

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 5216-a, authorizing the filing with clerks of State courts of notices of Federal tax liens, and providing for the recording and indexing of such liens and the clerks’ fees therefor; and to repeal an act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the filing of notices of Federal tax liens with clerks of State courts, and to provide for the recordation and indexing thereof.’
Amendments, Taxation, Property, Business

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4960 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the compensation of sheriffs or other persons in certain criminal cases and the compensation allowed hospitals for the treatment of prisoners.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Prisons

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2958 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the extension of corporate limits of cities and towns
Amendments, Judicial, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 401-p of the Code of Virginia, relating to public printing, so as to provide that Chapter 25 of the said Code relating to public printing, unless otherwise ordered by the Governor, shall not apply to the binding of certain books and other literary material of libraries operated by the State of Virginia or under its authority.
Libraries, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the application of Sections 2773-a to 2773-n, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, constituting a portion of Chapter 109-A of the said Code, relating to certain optional forms of county organization and government, so as to make such sections, subject to approval of a majority of the qualified voters of such county, applicable to any county having less than sixty square miles of high land or land above low water line or mark.
Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Voting, Property

Chapter 40

An ACT to authorize counties, cities and towns to acquire lands for the growth of trees and to administer the same, as well as lands now owned by them, as public forests; and to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission to furnish certain nursery stock and technical assistance to such counties, cities and towns under certain conditions.
Agriculture, Public spaces

Chapter 41

AN ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to lend or rent equipment to cities, towns, counties, or school boards
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 17, 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 section relating to registration cards and certificates of title, so as to give priority to certain repair liens over liens shown on certificate of title.
Business, Property

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 33 thereof a new section numbered 698, providing for the levying of taxes and appropriating money in counties, cities and towns for public school purposes, and to repeal Section 698-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters.
Taxation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5215 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of attorneys in fact by married women and the powers of such attorneys.
Amendments, Marriage, Lawyers, Property

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of Article X of Chapter 446 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1930, relating to the appropriation of money by counties, cities and towns to the national guard and naval militia.
Armed forces, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 46

An ACT to name the bridge across Crooked Creek near the town of Galax in Carroll County, on State Highway designated United States Highway Number fifty-eight, the ‘“Thos. L. Felts Memorial Bridge”.
Public spaces

Chapter 47

An Act to amend an act concerning weights and measures; and to repeal certain sections of the Code of Virginia relating to livestock auction markets.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 48

AN ACT validating, ratifying, approving and confirming proceedings heretofore taken, and elections heretofore held, to provide for and relative to the authorization, issuance, sale, execution and delivery of bonds by or on behalf of sanitary districts.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3820-a of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the sale, conveyance and transfer by corporations of their property and assets.
Amendments, Business, Property, Voting

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4866 of the Code of Virginia, relating to presentment, information, and indictment.
Judicial

Chapter 51

An ACT to name the bridge across Big Reed Island Creek near the town of Hillsville in Carroll County, on the State Highway designated United States Highway No. 221, the ‘Wm. D. Tompkins Memorial Bridge’.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 52

An ACT to name the bridge across Little Reed Island Creek near the town of Hillsville in Carroll County, on the State highway designated United States Highway No. 52, the “Col. Ira B. Coltrane Memorial Bridge’
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 653-a, prescribing how certain county school boards shall be constituted and the members of such boards appointed, and ratifying and validating acts and proceedings of certain school boards affected.
Education, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide equal educational facilities for certain persons denied admission to Virginia State colleges, universities, and institutions of higher learning.’’
Education, Civil Rights, Amendments, Equality before the law

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 389 of the Code of Virginia, relating to distribution of copies of bills, joint resolutions, documents and calendars of the House of Delegates and of the Senate.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Glade Spring, in the county of Washington.”
Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 57

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Wise, in the county of Wise; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office, not inconsistent with this new charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all acts, or parts of acts, in conflict with this act.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Public spaces, Business, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Amusement, Employment and labor, Property

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 22, as heretofore amended, 24, and 58, as heretofore amended, 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
Alcohol, Taxation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 59

An ACT to make it unlawful for any person to hunt, take, pursue, capture, wound, kill or maim a homing pigeon of another, or to use any trap, device, drug, poison or explosive for such purpose, and to prescribe penalties for violation thereof.
Hunting

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2731 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the appropriation of funds by county boards of supervisors for the erection and maintenance of armories, and for the assistance and maintenance of certain military and naval units.
Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5915 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the terms of certain courts in the City of Richmond, so as to change the time for the terms of the Hustings Court, Part II, of the City of Richmond.
Judicial

Chapter 62

AN ACT to authorize and empower the State Board of Health to convey to Craig-Botetourt Electric Cooperative, Incorporated, a perpetual right of way over certain lands of the Catawba Sanatorium and the Commonwealth of Virginia, to be used for the transmission and distribution of electricity.
Utilities

Chapter 63

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 52 and 62, as heretofore 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 powers of local authorities and to speeds and other prohibited acts.
Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 64

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Hillsville, situated in Carroll County, and to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act, when this act shall become effective.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Boundaries, Public officers, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Employment and labor

Chapter 65

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1092 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the establishment of the Petersburg State Colony.
Children -- Institutional care, Education, Healthcare, Segregation, Amendments

Chapter 66

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1068 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the commitment of inebriates to the State hospitals for the insane.
Alcohol, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 67

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4743 of the Code of Virginia, relating to casting dead animals into a road, so as to make it unlawful to transport a dead animal along a public road or street except in a closed container or vehicle from which no odor can escape, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof.
Amendments, Public officers, Transportation, Dead bodies (Law), Public spaces

Chapter 68

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 24 and 31 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to income taxes.
Taxation, Employment and labor, Pensions, Public officers

Chapter 69

An ACT to validate substitutions of trustees under deeds recorded in Virginia heretofore made in the courts of Virginia without sufficient notice or without any notice to some one or more of the persons interested in the trusts of such deeds, and to: validate acts done by such substituted trustees.
Property

Chapter 70

An ACT to authorize and empower the Governor to execute in the name of the Commonwealth a deed conveying, subject to the jurisdictional limitations and reservations contained in Section 19-a of the Code of Virginia, to the United States of America two parcels of vacant and unappropriated land containing twenty-three and six-tenths acres and thirty-seven and six-tenths acres, respectively, situate in Rocky Knob Area in Patrick County.
Property, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 71

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled, ‘‘An Act to provide for the creation of a division of the State Corporation Commission, to be known as Division of Aeronautics, as a means for the administration, by the State Corporation Commission, of the functions hereby, heretofore, or which may hereafter be, conferred upon the commission for the licensing of airports, air pilots, et cetera, and for the promotion of aviation in the public interest; to impose taxes upon gasoline purchased in the State and used for propelling airplanes and other aircraft operated intrastate; to provide for payment into a special fund of all gasoline taxes, to the extent of the tax imposed by this law, collected under the general gasoline tax by the Motor Vehicle Division, which under the present, or any future, law would be refundable to the operators of airplanes and other aircraft if demand were made therefor; to provide for the expenditure of the special fund so accumulated by the State Corporation Commission for the administration by the commission, through the said division, of the laws pertaining to aviation, as now or as may be hereafter enacted and jurisdiction for the administration thereof conferred on the said commission; to provide for the expenditure by the said State Corporation Commission of the surplus of the fund so created, left after the expenses of administration, for the construction, maintenance and improvement of airports and landing fields, to which the public shall have access, with the cooperation of the State Highway Department, or otherwise as may be determined, and for the promotion of aviation in the interest of operators and in the interest of the public; and to appropriate funds for the aforesaid purposes,”’ approved March 31, 1938, so as to make the act apply to both intrastate and interstate commerce.
Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 2854-a, authorizing the governing bodies of the several counties to acquire necessary lands for certain sewage disposal purposes at county seats, by eminent domain proceedings or otherwise.
Public expenditures, Public spaces, Healthcare

Chapter 73

An ACT to validate elections heretofore held for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of any county the question of issuing county bonds for the purpose of funding indebtedness incurred by the county school board for school purposes, and to validate county bonds issued by county school boards pursuant to any such election.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 74

An ACT to add to the primary system of State highways certain roads in the several State parks, and to add to the secondary system of State highways certain roads leading from State highways to public school buildings.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Education, Public spaces

Chapter 75

An ACT to regulate, and to provide open seasons for, the hunting and trapping of foxes in the county of Frederick.
Hunting

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1006 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, establishing the State hospital Board and defining certain of its powers and duties.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public officers

Chapter 77

An ACT to provide an open season for the hunting and shooting of foxes in the county of Shenandoah.
Hunting

Chapter 78

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

Chapter 79

An ACT to abolish the office of superintendent of the poor of the county of Bland.
Charity, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3079 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the purposes for which cities and towns may issue bonds, and to the amount of such bonds.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-n 4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to boards of county supervisors under the county executive form of county organization and government, so as to provide that in certain counties adopting such county executive form the members of the boards of county supervisors shall be elected by the qualified voters of the magisterial districts of such counties.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 111, as heretofore 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, relating to the size of vehicles and loads.
Transportation, Agriculture, Amendments

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5220 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the alteration and vacation of streets and alleys.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers

Chapter 84

An ACT to authorize and empower the Virginia Conservation Commission to convey to the former grantors thereof, their heirs, devisees, assigns or successors in title, certain lands in Smyth county acquired by the said Commission as a right of way for a road from Lee Highway to Hungry Mother State Park, and no longer needed for such purpose.
Transportation, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Property, Recreation

Chapter 85

An ACT to establish as a permanent record, and a valid method of recording and indexing delinquent lands in the county of Princess Anne, a certain card system record thereof, recently set up in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of said county.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 668-a, authorizing the operation, by local school boards, of vacation schools and summer camps.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'An Act to make it unlawful for any person to drive or operate any automobile or other motor vehicle, engine or train while under the influence of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout, or any other liquid, beverage or article containing alcohol, or under the influence of any narcotic drug, or any other self-administered intoxicant or drug of whatsoever nature; to prescribe penalties for violations thereof, and to require convictions thereunder to be reported to the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles.'
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Education, Budget

Chapter 89

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-f, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of a trial justice, so as to require any officer making an arrest, upon the request of the person arrested, to take him before a justice of the peace or other officer having power to grant bail for the purpose of being admitted to bail for his appearance before such trial justice.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Municipal charters

Chapter 90

An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust, taken by persons who are trustees therein and who are also officers authorized by law to take acknowledgments.
Property, Business, Judicial

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 14, as heretofore amended, and Section 43 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 14 relating to the trial justice of the city and his jurisdiction, Section 43 to the budget for the fiscal year; and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 28-a, providing for liens on real estate for taxes.
Amendments, Judicial, Budget, Property, Public officers

Chapter 92

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1018 and 1019 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to proceedings for the commitment of insane, feeble-minded, epileptic and inebriate persons to the several State hospitals and colonies.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Judicial

Chapter 93

An ACT to regulate the shooting and catching of fish in Scott County, to prohibit, under certain circumstances and conditions, the shooting of fish and fishing with live bait and artificial flies or plugs, and to provide penalties for violations of the act.
Fishing

Chapter 94

An ACT to fix and define the open season for hunting squirrels in Scott County.
Hunting

Chapter 95

An ACT to release the United States of America, and certain contractors and agents thereof, from all claims for damages to the oyster and other public interests belonging to the State of Virginia, which may result from the re-dredging and maintaining of a navigable channel in Starling’s Creek in the vicinity of Saxis, in the county of Accomack.
Public expenditures, Property, Fishing

Chapter 96

An ACT to authorize the State Corporation Commission to apply for and receive certain appropriations, grants, donations, and gifts of money and equipment, and to use the same in the development and promotion of aviation.
Public expenditures

Chapter 97

An ACT to require the county school boards and the boards of supervisors, or other governing bodies of the counties, to cause to be recorded in well bound books, complete minutes of all their meetings and proceedings, including all bids submitted on any building, materials, supplies, work, or project to be let to contract, and to provide that such books shall be kept open to public inspection of any such minutes for certain periods.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 98

An ACT to authorize certain counties, cities and towns in this State to establish one or more mosquito control districts; to provide for a commission for each such district so established and to grant and define the powers and duties of each such commission; to provide funds and authorize the levy of taxes to carry on the mosquito control work in each such district so established; and to repeal chapter 464 of the acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1930, approved March 27, 1930, relating to the establishment of mosquito control districts.
Taxation, Pensions, Municipal charters

Chapter 99

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Iron Gate, Alleghany County, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith: and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Iron Gate.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Budget, Business, Public officers, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Utilities, Jails, Death and burial, Healthcare

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to judicial circuits.
Judicial

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8-a of an Act entitled, ‘‘An Act requiring persons, firms, corporations and associations owning, controlling, operating or managing motor vehicles used as common carriers for the transportation of persons and/or property for compensation on the public highways of this State to obtain registration plates or markers, and prescribing and imposing certain taxes and/or license fees and/or charges and providing for the collection, payment and disposition of the same, and providing for the enforcement of this act and for punishment of violations thereof,’’ approved March 26, 1932.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business
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