1942es

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Chapter 1

An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000,000 to the “Sinking Fund”

Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 2

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; And to declare the existence of an emergency.

Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 3

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 62, as amended, of Chapter 342, Acts of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, short title of which is “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia”

Amendments, Transportation, Armed forces

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 290 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the disability of persons holding office under the United States so as to provide that the provisions of this section and of any other statute having the effect of prohibiting a State, county or municipal officer or employee from accepting or holding an office, post, trust or emolument under the government of the United States shall not be effective during such period as a state of war exists between the United States and any foreign power.

Armed forces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section numbered 29a so as to empower the council of the city of Richmond to provide for leave of absence for officers and employees of the city of Richmond serving in the military and naval forces of the United States and reinstatement of such officers and employees to positions in the government of the city of Richmond when released from such service.

Amendments, Armed forces, Employment and labor, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2924 of the Code of Virginia, relating to application of the provisions of Chapter 118 of the Code of Virginia as to transition of cities of the second class to cities of the first class; and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6, and Section 31 as amended, of Chapter 309 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1920, approved March 19, 1920, which provided a new charter for the City of Bristol, to provide for the continuation of the City Manager Form of Government; to provide for a civil and police justice for the city ; and to declare the existence of an emergency

Civil Rights, Judicial, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 19, as amended, of Chapter 230 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1920, approved March 16, 1920, to provide a charter and special form of government for the City of Hampton, et cetera, to increase the maximum of the school tax that may be levied, and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Amendments, Budget, Business, Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 9

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Article V of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county.”, approved January 22, 1900, to increase the school tax that may be levied, and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Education, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 10

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 127 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to election and term of office of certain district officers, to omit provisions as to constables; and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 52 as heretofore amended of an act entitled “An Act to provide a new charter for the City of Radford, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.”, approved March 15, 1910, relating to borrowing money and letting certain contracts.

Budget, Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 361 of the Acts of 1940, relating to police departments and police forces of certain counties; and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section, numbered 5333-bl, to provide for jurisdiction of cases pending on the effective date of Chapter 205, Acts of 1942, which added Sections 5333-a to 5333-1 to the Code of Virginia: to provide for the further procedure in such cases; to validate certain orders and actions in cases so pending; and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Custody of children

Chapter 14

An ACT to authorize and empower the Governor and State Treasurer, jointly, to make certain investments of current funds in the State Treasury, the expenditure of which is not required for the current needs of the State.

Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 15

An ACT to authorize any county, city, or town to purchase bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of the United States of America, or of the State or any political subdivision or institution thereof, out of money available in the general fund or in any sinking fund or in any special fund during the period defined in this Act; to dispose of such bonds or other evidences of debt so purchased; to validate any ordinances which have been enacted for the purchase of same, and any purchases of same which have been made out of any such funds, and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 112, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and therein designated as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, said section, as amended by Chapter 384 of the Acts of 1942, covering the operation of trailers and towed vehicles.

Transportation

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend Chapter 529, Acts of 1928, approved March 28, 1928, as amended, which amended and re-enacted, in its entirety, Chapter 408, Acts of 1918, approved March 23, 1918, pertaining to the offer, sale, et cetera, of securities, by adding a new section, numbered 5-a, defining certain terms, requiring any company proposing to sell, selling, or having sold certain kinds of securities, in Virginia, to make and maintain a deposit as security for the performance of the obligations assumed, or otherwise to provide security, as determined by the State Corporation Commission; providing for the appointment of a receiver for any such company under certain circumstances ; requiring certain steps to be taken, or certain conditions to exist, before application for a receiver for any such company by any person other than the State Corporation Commission as provided; providing for the custody, control, et cetera, of the deposit when made; and declaring an emergency.

Amendments, Business, Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 404 of the Acts of 1918, approved March 23, 1918, entitled “An Act to provide for the examination and punishment of persons convicted of prostitution, or of keeping houses of ill fame or assignation, and for commitment of such persons to city farms or hospitals.”

Amendments, Judicial, Jails

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5342 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to securing and application of proceeds from disposition of lands of persons under disabilities; and to declare the existence of an

Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 20

An ACT to appropriate, out of the special highway fund, in addition to the amount appropriated in the general Appropriation Act for the biennium, July 1, 1942 to June 30, 1944, the sum of $150,000 to the “Highway Sinking Fund” provided for by this act, so as to provide sufficient funds to liquidate, discharge, and pay off, principal and interest, all of the highway certificates of indebtedness outstanding; to provide for the payment of these obligations by the “Commissioners of the Sinking Fund”, and for investment and management by them of all moneys in the “Highway Sinking Fund”, and of the securities therein, and to provide for the revision of all existing highway sinking funds.

Budget, Transportation

Chapter 21

An ACT to provide for the compensation, and allowances, for the presiding officers and members of the General Assembly in attendance upon the extra session of 1942; and to declare the existence of an emergency.

Budget, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments