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1940

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 434

Chapter 102

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5073-a, requiring, as a prerequisite to the issuance of marriage licenses, certain serological tests, physician’s statements and reports as to serological tests, prescribing by whom such statements, reports and tests shall be made, prescribing the powers and duties of clerks, the State Department of Health and the State Health Commissioner with reference thereto, requiring certain precautions and medical treatments, prohibiting the refusal to issue such marriage license under certain conditions, and prescribing penal for violations.
Marriage, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 103

An ACT to prevent the pollution and discoloration of streams in the counties of Bath and Highland by the deposit therein of certain substances; and to authorize the issuance of injunctions to restrain any such pollution or discoloration at the instance of persons injured or affected thereby.
Agriculture

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6466 of the Code of Virginia.
Debt, Judicial, Lawyers, Public officers

Chapter 105

An ACT to provide that the Judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court for any city having a population of not less than 100,000 nor more than 150,000 shall be elected by the General Assembly; to provide for the compensation of such judges, to prohibit them from practicing law, and to prescribe the application of general law to such judges and courts.
Judicial, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 106

An ACT to validate certain pay-roll checks of the State Department of Highways which were fraudulently obtained and used by M. S. De Huff, an Engineer employed by the said Department, and transferred by him without notice and for value to certain persons, firms, associations and corporations.
Budget, Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as heretofore amended, 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 of 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.’
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 108

An ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board to convey to J. A. Overbay all the right, title and interest of the Southwestern State Hospital and the Commonwealth of Virginia in and to two certain tracts of land near Marion in Smyth County, and to use the money received from such sale in the purchase of certain other lands in said county.
Healthcare, Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 109

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter IX of an act entitled ‘‘An act to incorporate the City of Danville’
Budget, Taxation, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 110

An ACT to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission to transfer and convey to the United States of America, without consideration but subject to certain conditions, restrictions and reservations, all the right, title and interest of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of the Virginia Conservation Commission in and to a certain tract of land in Princess Anne County, Virginia, adjoining the Fort Story Military Reservation, the said tract being a part of the Virginia Sea Shore State Park.
Property

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases’
Amendments, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1005 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the location and corporate names of the State hospitals and colonies and to the State Hospital Board.
Healthcare, Equality before the law

Chapter 113

An Act to prescribe the qualifications of newspapers in which may be published, ordinances, resolutions, advertisements or notices, required by law to be published in a newspaper.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 114

An ACT to authorize the Commissioner of Public Welfare to enter into agreements with other states for the interstate transportation and support of poor and indigent persons under certain conditions, and to make uniform the law relating thereto.
Charity, Transportation

Chapter 115

An ACT establishing a commission to prepare plans for appropriate exercises to be held in 1944 commemorating the 325th Anniversary of the meeting in 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia, of the first Legislative Assembly in the New World.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 116

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield County, Virginia, to contract with any person, firm or corporation for the sale of water from its water supply system at the Court House of said County, at such rates and upon such conditions as to it may seem advisable.
Utilities

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to provide for the creation of sanitary districts in counties of the State adjoining a city having a population, according to the last preceding United States census, of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants or more; to prescribe the powers and duties of the boards of supervisors of such counties as to the construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation of water supply, sewerage, heat, light and power and gas systems in such districts; and to provide for the issuance of county bonds; to provide funds for establishing and operating such public utilities in said sanitary districts.’’, approved March 17, 1926.
Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 118

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 98 and 120-1 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to inheritance and gift taxes, respectively.
Inheritance and succession, Taxation, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Public expenditures

Chapter 119

An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of directors of the State Penitentiary to convey to the city of Richmond a small strip of the land occupied by said Penitentiary.
Prisons

Chapter 120

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 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.’
Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 121

An ACT to authorize and empower the State Hospital Board to grant to the Appalachian Electric Power Company an easement for the construction and maintenance of a power line upon and across the lands occupied by the Southwestern State Hospital at Marion.
Utilities

Chapter 122

An ACT to name the bridge across New River, on Route 8 of the State Highway System, at Glen Lyn, in Giles county, the Andrew S. Rowan Bridge, and to name the bridge across East River, on said Route 8, at Glen Lyn, the Mary Porter Bridge.
Public spaces

Chapter 123

An ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board to sell or lease a certain small parcel of the land occupied by the Western State Hospital, at Staunton, to such person and on such terms as said board may deem proper.
Property, Public officers

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2743 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to powers of local nature conferred on boards of supervisors.
Amendments, Public officers, Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 125

An ACT to name that portion of the State highway system which connects the cities of Fredericksburg and Williamsburg, being parts of Routes 2, 30 and 60, the ‘Washington’s Burgess Route’
Transportation

Chapter 126

An ACT to name the bridge across Elk Creek, near Elk Creek high school, in Grayson County, on United States Highway No. 21, the Rev. J. W. Rader Memorial Bridge.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 89 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to compensation of members of electoral boards.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia regarding the filling of judicial circuit vacancies.
Judicial

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 64-a of an act entitled ‘“‘An Act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.’”, approved January 16, 1896, relating to certain juvenile officers.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor

Chapter 130

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11 of Chapter One of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as amended, known and designated as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act.
Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 131

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 288 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to the fixing of county and district levies by boards of supervisors.
Taxation

Chapter 132

An ACT to authorize the State Board of Education, in consideration of the closing of certain streets in the town of Farmville, to convey to the said town of Farmville for the purpose of opening a new street a certain tract or parcel of land in said town now a part of the property used by the State Teachers College at Farmville.
Education, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 675 of the Code of Virginia, relating to temporary loans to school boards and expenditures of funds for school purposes.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 134

An ACT to provide for the addition to the primary system of State highways, for certain purposes, of certain roads, on and adjacent to the lands of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute.
Agriculture, Transportation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 135

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to construct, maintain and repair, as a part of the primary system of State highways, a new section of road running by or around the town of South Boston in Halifax County.
Transportation

Chapter 136

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2917 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the government of cities upon their transition from cities of the second-class to cities of the first-class
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 137

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1920 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals from certain courts with respect to delinquent, dependent and neglected children, so as to prescribe the courts in the city of Richmond to which such appeals will lie.
Children -- Institutional care, Judicial, Divorce

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 401 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale and distribution of State publications, so as to provide for the distribution of certain publications to subscribers.
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 139

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4768 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the limitation of certain prosecutions.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Divorce, Custody of children

Chapter 140

An ACT to fix the boundaries of ‘‘Bellmeade Sanitary District Number One of Chesterfield County, Virginia.”
Boundaries, Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 141

An ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Supervisors of any county which adjoins three cities lying wholly within this State, one of which cities has a population of 170,000 or more as shown by the last preceding United States census, to construct, reconstruct, maintain, alter, improve, add to and operate water supply systems; to acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease, or otherwise, water supply system or systems; to furnish water from any such system to any sanitary district, village, town, community, individuals, firm, corporation or partnership; to make such charge for the supply of water herein authorized as the board may from time to time determine upon; to lay a levy for the purpose of raising funds for the construction, maintenance, operation, improvement and reconstruction of any such water system or systems or to appropriate from the general county fund for such purposes; to contract for a loan and to issue bonds for the purpose of construction, acquisition, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance and operation of any such water system on the credit of the county, provided, that such borrowing power shall not exist, and the loan shall not be contracted for or bonds issued unless and until the action of the Board of Supervisors determining to construct, maintain and operate or acquire, reconstruct, improve such water system shall be certified to the judge of the Circuit Court of said county and petitioning the said judge to call an election for the purpose of obtaining the approval of such loan and bond issue by the qualified voters of the county, and prescribing the duties of the judge of the said Circuit Court of said county; prescribing the duties of the regular election officers, and prescribing the duties and powers of the Board of Supervisors.
Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 142

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 31 and 39, as amended, of an act entitled ‘An act to provide a new charter for the town of Vinton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.’
Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 143

An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘‘An act to incorporate the town of Franklin, Southampton county”, approved March 15, 1876, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section to be designated as Section 20, providing for the appointment of a civil and police justice for said town, prescribing his powers and duties, providing for his compensation, and providing for the appointment of a substitute civil and police justice.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 22, 27 and 28 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, as here- tofore amended, which act is known, designated and cited as “The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act’’, said sections relating to license and excise taxes, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 17-a, levying a State tax upon alcoholic beverages, as defined in the said act, providing for the collection of the said State tax, and providing for the payment of all moneys so collected into the State treasury.
Alcohol, Taxation, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 145

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 6, 10 and 11 of an act entitled ‘An act to legalize, regulate and control the manufacture, bottling, sale and disposition of beer, lager beer, ale, porter, wine, similar fermented malt or vinous liquor, and fruit juice, containing one-half of one per centum or more of alcohol by volume, and not more than 3.2 per centum of alcohol by weight; to provide for licensing and taxing manufacturers, bottlers, wholesalers and retailers of such beverages by the State and the counties, cities and towns thereof; to impose an excise tax upon all such beverages; to appropriate a portion of the revenue derived hereunder for the collection of the taxes herein imposed and for the administration of the act; to provide for the dismissal of pending prosecutions for alleged violations of laws heretofore in force declaring illegal the beverages legalized by this act where such prosecutions are founded upon the then illegality of such beverages; to impose penalties for violations of the act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith’
Alcohol, Taxation, Business

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘An act for the protection of fish in certain streams in Alleghany and Craig counties.’’
Fishing

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 12 of an Act entitled, ‘An Act to revise, collate and codify into one Act the General Statutes of the Commonwealth, relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia Banking Act, and to repeal all Code Sections and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent therewith and to provide penalties for the violation thereof,”
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 48, as heretofore amended, of an Act entitled, ‘‘An Act to revise, collate and codify into one Act the General Statutes of the Commonwealth, relating to banks and banking, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia Banking Act, and to repeal all Code Sections and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent therewith and to provide penalties for the violations thereof.’’
Business, Debt

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6131 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the maturing of actions at law and suits in equity.
Judicial

Chapter 150

An ACT to revise, consolidate, amend and codify the general laws of Virginia relating to mines, mining, quarries, quarrying, the Division of Mines, and the State Mine Inspector
Employment and labor, Healthcare, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 192 of the Tax Code of Virginia, relating to peddlers’ licenses.
Business, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 152

An ACT to provide for a continuing board of equalization of real estate assessments for any county having a population of not more than thirty thousand and adjoining a city having a population of not less than one hundred thousand nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand; to prescribe the term of office and the powers and duties of the members of such boards, and to provide for their compensation.
Property, Public officers, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3032-a, limiting the civil liability on the part of cities and towns in the maintenance or operation of recreational facilities to cases of gross or wanton negligence.
Recreation

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5904-g of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees and costs to be collected on cases tried by county courts.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5202-a prescribing how valid liens may be obtained on certain livestock and poultry, providing for the method of filing and docketing such liens, and validating certain mortgages, chattel mortgages and deeds of trust, heretofore executed, embracing livestock and poultry, or either.
Agriculture, Property, Business

Chapter 156

An ACT to name the bridge across Pigg River, near Rocky Mount, in Franklin county, on State Highway 220, the Peter Saunders Memorial Bridge.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 394 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the printing and distribution of the reports of State departments and agencies, so as to provide that the same, with certain exceptions, shall be edited and condensed, and printed and distributed bi-ennially in consolidated form.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Education, Public expenditures, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 158

An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to issue bonds, notes or other obligations of said city in exchange for bonds, notes or other obligations held in the sinking funds of said city in order to assure a more uniform annual debt service charge for the retirement of outstanding bonded indebtedness, and to regulate the annual contributions to such sinking funds and the maturities of serial bonds hereafter issued by said city of Norfolk.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 159

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6217 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to issuance of summons for witnesses and to recognizances.
Judicial

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1132, 1133, 1134, as heretofore amended, 1135, 1136 and 1137 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the registration, inspection, analysis, offering for sale and sale of agricultural lime so as, among other purposes, to make the same applicable to liming materials.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for the town of Woodstock and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and to declare all contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government of the town of Woodstock and all power heretofore or hereafter exercised by them, while in office, to be legal and valid.”’
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers, Utilities, Education, Healthcare, Property, Recreation, Labor, Cemeteries, Municipal charters

Chapter 162

An ACT to authorize the sale at public auction of unclaimed baggage and other personal property in possession of a hotel under certain conditions and after certain notice, to require the payment of any surplus proceeds of such sale into the literary fund of the Commonwealth when the owner fails to apply therefor, and to provide under certain conditions for the recovery of such surplus proceeds by the former owner.
Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 163

An ACT to authorize and direct the State Highway Commission to take into the secondary system of State highways certain roads in and adjacent to the Prince Edward State Forest, the Surrender Grounds State Forest and Cumberland State Forest under certain conditions.
Transportation, Public spaces, Recreation, Public expenditures

Chapter 164

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 385-a, exempting under certain conditions, from certain provisions of Chapter 25 of the Code of Virginia, public printing, lithographing, engraving and ruling for State colleges, universities and other institutions of higher learn-
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 165

An ACT to control and regulate the keeping, maintenance and operation of tourist camps, to this end to provide for the keeping of certain records and for the making of certain inspections, and to prescribe penalties for violations.
Business, Public officers, Healthcare

Chapter 166

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 979, 982 and 983 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children, so as to abolish the board of visitors of said school and place the same under the control, management and supervision of the State Board of Education, and to repeal Section 984 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 167

An ACT to authorize and empower the boards of supervisors of the counties of Alleghany and Highland, respectively, to fix the open and closed seasons for hunting, with or without dogs, and trapping bear and foxes in each said county, and in any magisterial district thereof, and to further empower the said boards of supervisors to prescribe and enforce penalties, within certain limits, for violations of the seasons so fixed.
Hunting

Chapter 168

An Act to amend Chapter 6 of an act entitled 'An Act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg.'
Judicial

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2725 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the power of boards of supervisors of counties with respect to county buildings, so as to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing body of any county to locate, build and keep in repair county buildings, and to locate and construct, on the same lot on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail or public high school, a suitable building for a county or regional free library or library system, and office buildings.
Amendments, Libraries, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 613 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the governing boards of certain educational institutions.
Education

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 608 and 609 of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers and duties of the State Board of Education.
Education, Public officers

Chapter 172

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘An act to make it unlawful to kill red foxes in Lee County for two years, and to prescribe penalties for violations.”
Hunting

Chapter 173

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-j of the Code of Virginia, relating to the return of papers by trial justices to clerk’s office, and issuing execution and abstracts of judgments.
Judicial

Chapter 174

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 17 of the Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act relating to revocations and suspensions of operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses and the conditions under which such licenses may be restored.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 175

An ACT to make it lawful to gig red-horse, carp, and other non-game fish in the waters of Clinch River, within the County of Russell, during certain periods; to prescribe the bag limit for such fish; to provide penalties for viola- tions; to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to pay rewards to persons furnishing information which leads to the conviction of any person for dynamiting fish in any stream in said county; to provide that the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries shall not discriminate against Clinch River, in said county, in the matter of restocking inland waters with game fish, on account of any provisions of this act; and to repeal an act entitled ‘An act to authorize the Chairman of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, to issue per- mits to gig certain kinds of fish in Clinch River, within Russell County, during certain periods and upon certain conditions.’
Fishing, Wildlife, Amendments, Recreation

Chapter 176

An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, to convey to the City of Staunton a right of way for certain sewer pipe lines heretofore laid by said city in connection with its sanitary sewerage system, through the lands of said school, together with the right to maintain, repair and relay said lines.
Public expenditures, Utilities, Education

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5189 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to docketing conditional sales contracts, and certain other contracts.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 178

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 973, 975 as heretofore amended, and 976 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers and duties of the Board of Visitors and the Superintendent of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, and to repeal Section 978 of the Code of Virginia relating to funds for the support of said institution.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 179

An ACT to repeal chapter 379 of the Acts of 1930 entitled “An Act to regulate the baiting of wild ducks on the Pamunkey River.”
Hunting

Chapter 180

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 644-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain officers who may not be members of county school boards.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 181

An ACT to authorize and empower the State Highway Commission to construct, improve and maintain a certain State highway lying within the corporate limits of the City of Williamsburg, and incorporate the same into the primary system of State highways.
Transportation

Chapter 182

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 611 and 647, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to minimum school terms, and certain other matters relating to public schools.
Amendments, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 183

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7, Chapter 2, of an act entitled ‘An Act to provide a new charter for the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.’
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 68 of chapter 247 of the Act of the General Assembly of 1930, approved March 24, 1930, and designated and cited as the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, said section relating to when a dog is deemed personal property, and to rights and powers incident thereto.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 185

An Act to Authorize the Transfer of Certain Roads Between the Primary and Secondary Systems of State Highways in Augusta County
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 186

An ACT to abolish the office of superintendent of the poor of the county of James City
Charity

Chapter 187

An ACT to make the city of Fredericksburg a part of the 15th judicial circuit; to establish a circuit court for said city and prescribe the time for holding terms thereof; to make the judge of the 15th judicial circuit the judge of the said circuit court; to prescribe the jurisdiction of said circuit court; to transfer to said circuit all suits, actions, proceedings and matters pending in the corporation court; to provide for the clerk and other officers of said circuit court, and a Commonwealth’s attorney for said city; and to transfer to the clerk’s office of said circuit court and make parts of the records therein, all record books, papers and records of and in the clerk’s office of the corporation court; and to provide when this act shall be in force.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 188

An ACT to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission, with the approval of the Governor, and subject to certain conditions, restrictions and reservations, to lease to responsible organizations or groups of individuals certain lands or other properties held by it or under its supervision and control, and to grant certain easements over, upon and across such lands or other properties.
Public spaces, Recreation, Utilities, Property

Chapter 189

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 545 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, regulating the burning of, and prohibiting during certain periods and under certain conditions setting fire to or procuring another to set fire to, woods, brush, logs, leaves, grass, debris, and other inflammable material, and providing penalties for violations of the section.
Amendments, Fire fighters, Public expenditures

Chapter 190

An ACT to make it unlawful to operate fraudulently any coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine that operates on the coin-in-the-slot principle, or to obtain fraudulently from any such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine the use and enjoyment of telephone or telegraph service, parking privileges, merchandise or other service or property, or to manufacture, sell or give away, with intent to defraud, or knowing the same is intended for any unlawful use, any slug, device or substance whatsoever, designed and intended for the operation of any such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine, and providing a penalty for its violation; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith.
Business, Law Enforcement

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of an act entitled ‘An act to authorize and provide for a voluntary inspection service for agricultural products; to constitute certificates issued under this act or under authority of the Congress of the United States prima facie evidence in courts of this Commonwealth; and to repeal Section 1471 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an Act approved March 15, 1920.’
Agriculture, Amendments, Business

Chapter 192

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5781 of the Code of Virginia, relating to insulting words.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 193

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5445 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to unlawful entry and detainer.
Property, Judicial

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the appointment and qualification of trial justices, and of associate trial justices in certain counties
Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 195

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5390 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the order in which debts of decedents shall be paid.
Debt, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 196

An ACT to require the trial justice of each and every county through any part of which both State Highways, number one and number two pass, to appoint a clerk; to prescribe the powers and provide for the compensation of such clerks, and to fix their terms of office.
Judicial, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 197

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 20 of Chapter 402 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1918, approved March 23, 1918, as heretofore amended, relating to the business of making small loans.
Amendments, Business, Debt

Chapter 198

An ACT to require all motor carriers holding certificates and/or permits issued by the State Corporation Commission to purchase motor fuel in Virginia commensurate with the mileage traveled in this State; to require such motor carriers to make reports to the State Corporation Commission; to provide for the revocation or suspension of such certificate and permit and to prescribe for the punishment for violation thereof.
Transportation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 199

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, Coroners and constables.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 200

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6300 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the execution of trusts where certain trustees have died, resigned, declined to accept the trust, or removed from the State.
Amendments, Property

Chapter 201

An Act to amend and re-enact Sections 4 and 26 of the charter of the city of Charlottesville
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments
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