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1944

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 405

Chapter 101

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 6, as amended, of an act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the City of Danville.”
Municipal charters, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 102

An ACT to validate certain sales under deeds of trust to secure debts or indemnify sureties; to provide that this act shall not affect any final order heretofore entered by a court of competent jurisdiction in any suit or action pending in such court; to protect intervening rights ; and to limit the time within which a suit or action may be hereafter brought to vacate or set aside any such sale.
Property

Chapter 103

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'An act for the protection of squirrels in the counties of Caroline, Henrico and King George.'
Hunting, Wildlife, Amendments

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 541 of the Code, as amended, relating to forests, so as to impose upon the several counties the obligation to make certain annual payments into the State Treasury for the purpose of protection of forests, especially from the ravages of fire, and to prescribe the effective date thereof.
Amendments, Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 105

An ACT to repeal Chapter 842 of the Acts of Assembly of 1893-1894, approved March 8, 1894, and all amendments thereto, relating to fish in Washington County.
Fishing

Chapter 106

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3405 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to reports by clerks of the business of courts of record.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 472 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 6, 1942, relating to special licenses to hunt bear and deer in Bath county, and to make any violation of the provisions of the chapter
Hunting, Recreation, Amendments

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2184, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the issuance of duplicate warrants under certain circumstances.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 109

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

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5216-a of the Code of Virginia relating to Notice of Federal Tax Liens on Real Estate.
Taxation, Property, Judicial

Chapter 111

An ACT to protect persons acting in good faith under or in reliance upon written powers of attorney or written agency agreements executed by persons in the Armed Forces or Military Service of the United States or by persons who depart from the United States by permission or direction of any department or official of the United States in connection with work relating to the prosecution of the war.
Armed forces, Pensions

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4222 of the Code of Wrenn: as amended, relating to certain insurance companies doing business in this oe
Business, Amendments

Chapter 113

An ACT to transfer the jurisdiction and control of certain parcels of land in Smyth County from the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to the State Highway Commission, and to authorize the latter agency to use said lands as a part of State Highway Route No. 16.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property, Judicial

Chapter 114

An ACT to continue the Marine laboratory under the name of the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory and provide for its operation, to provide for the appointment of an advisory group in connection with such laboratory, and to prescribe the duties and functions of the group when appointed.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 198 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to slot machines.
Taxation, Amusement, Gambling, Business

Chapter 116

An ACT to authorize public and private corporations of and in the State of Virginia to make applications for the right to establish, operate and maintain, foreign-trade zones in or adjacent to ports otf entry in this State.
Business, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 117

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2 and 8 of Chapter 375 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 1, 1942, to extend the time in which the development of projects may be initiated thereunder.
Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 119

An ACT to transfer the jurisdiction and control of a certain parcel of land in Marion, Virginia, from the State Hospital Board to the State Highway Commission and to authorize the State Highway Commission to use said land for a residency headquarters lot or other highway purposes and to provide that the jurisdiction and control of said land shall revert to the State Hospital Board when the land is no longer needed for highway purposes.
Public spaces, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 120

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An Act to prescribe the time for the holding of courts of the sixth judicial circuit.”
Judicial

Chapter 121

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 175 of the Code of Virginia, relating to trial of challenge of right to vote, and declaring an emergency.
Voting, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 122

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 200 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to compensation of certain election officials.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2799 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to salaries of superintendents of the poor.
Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 124

An ACT to provide for the submission of proposed amendments to Sections 73 and 134 of the Constitution of Virginia to the qualified voters for ratification or rejection, and to prescribe when and how such referendum shall be had, and the manner in which the results thereof shall be ascertained and certified, the returns canvassed, and the vote thereon proclaimed by the Governor.
Amendments, Judicial, Voting, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 371 of the Tax Code of Virginia, so as to require statements to be sent to certain taxpayers.
Taxation

Chapter 126

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 396 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the custody, disposal and sale of published reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Judicial, Public officers, Education

Chapter 127

An ACT to repeal Chapter 401 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 30, 1936, and all acts amendatory, relating to picking peanuts.
Agriculture

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 19-e, as amended, of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, relating to the licensing of blinds for hunting migratory waterfowl, so as to require a season license to hunt waterfowl in certain counties to which the act does not apply otherwise.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 129

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Middleburg, in Loudoun County, Virginia; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public spaces, Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 130

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 1808-a 1 to provide for certain hours of work for women for a certain limited duration of emergency.
Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 131

An ACT to authorize and direct the State Highway Commission and the State Highway Commissioner to prepare a twenty-year plan for the development, improvement, maintenance and enlargement of the primary and secondary systems of State Highways, and to make report thereof to the Governor and the General Assembly.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 73-c, in relation to the taxation of suppliers of pulpwood, veneer logs, mine props and railroad cross-ties.
Taxation, Industry, Business

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1006 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the State Hospital Board and certain of its powers and duties, so as to make certain changes in the per diem expenses of members.
Healthcare, Public officers, Cemeteries, Public expenditures

Chapter 134

An ACT to appropriate to the City of Martinsville the sum of $5,201.60, to reimburse such city for certain taxes on bank stock.
Budget, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 135

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or gift, ferries which are connecting links in the State highway systems, and to purchase all equipment and other things necessary for the establishment of new ferries to become connecting links in the State highway systems, and to operate or lease the same, and to repeal Chapter 453 and Chapter 449 of the Acts of Assembly of Virginia of 1924.
Transportation

Chapter 136

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

Chapter 137

An ACT to provide that adverse possession of the surface of land
Property

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 6204-a, validating certain proceedings had under the two preceding sections, under certain circumstances.
Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 139

An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to release certain penalties, interest and costs on real property taxes, under certain conditions.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7, as amended, of Chapter 212 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, providing for licensing dealers in motor fuels, levying a tax upon motor fuels, et cetera, Section 7 relating to refunds of taxes paid on motor fuels.
Taxation, Transportation, Agriculture, Public officers

Chapter 141

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 40, Acts of 1927, relating to driving any vehicle over or upon, and to injuring or destroying, any equipment of any fire company, under certain circumstances, making any such action unlawful and prescribing penalty, in certain named counties, so as to include certain other county or counties.
Amendments, Fire fighters, Law Enforcement, Public spaces

Chapter 142

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5113, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to time within which neither party may remarry after divorce from bond of matrimony.
Divorce

Chapter 143

An ACT to repeal Chapter 269 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932.
Fishing

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as amended, of Chapter 114 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 7, 1924, relating to agricultural seeds, and to further amend such chapter by adding thereto a new section numbered 2-a, defining hybrid seed corn and regulating its sale.
Agriculture

Chapter 145

An ACT to repeal Chapter 77 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved February 26, 1936, relating to fishing in Wise County.
Fishing

Chapter 146

An ACT to repeal Chapter 270 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 26, 1938, relating to squirrels in Halifax County.
Wildlife

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 15 of the Acts of Assembly of 1927, approved April 11, 1927, relating to zoning in certain counties, so as to make certain change or changes as to the scope of the act.
Public spaces

Chapter 148

An ACT to repeal Section 48-a of an act entitled “An Act to provide
Municipal charters, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled "An Act to prescribe the form and require the use of a standard fire insurance policy in the State of Virginia."
Amendments, Business, Utilities, Public officers

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5 and 9, as amended, of Chapter 212 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 23, 1932, relating to taxes on motor fuel, and penalty for failure to make certain reports.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of Chapter 325 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 31, 1942, short title of which is “Virginia Retirement Act”, relating to prior service credits.
Pensions, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 152

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 643, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to loans to county, city or town school boards from the literary fund, to reduce the interest rate on such loans.
Education, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2773-1 1 so as to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to appoint a civil service commission charged with the establishment of a classified civil service system for county employees.
Employment and labor, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 3387-a, providing for copying of certain records in office of clerks of court under certain circumstances.
Judicial, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 44, 82, and 286 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the time for filing tax returns.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 309-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, requiring operators of certain apartment houses annually to file lists of tenants with commissioner of the revenue.
Taxation, Business, Property

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 424-a, dispensing with oaths or affirmations in making returns of income, intangible personal property, tangible personal property, machinery and tools and merchants’ capital, and declaring that any person who subscribes any such return which he does not believe to be true and correct as to every material matter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Taxation

Chapter 158

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6456 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to satisfaction of certain liens by marginal notations.
Debt, Property, Business

Chapter 159

An ACT to create the Virginia World War II History Commission
Armed forces, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 160

An ACT to provide for the regulation of certain administrative agencies
Judicial, Business, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6, as amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, short title of which is “The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia”, the section relating to certain powers and duties of the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Superintendent of State Police, respectively.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 10 of Chapter 364 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, relating to compensation of certain county and city officers, and the creation of the Compensation Board, and its powers and duties; and abolition of the State Fee Commission, Section 10 relating to applications for allowances by certain officers, etc. [fH 237]
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 163

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 80 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to disposition of dog fund.
Amendments, Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 164

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3194 of the Code of Virginia, relating to relief of oyster planters from rent under certaim circumstances, so as to broaden the scope of the provisions for relief.
Agriculture, Amendments, Business

Chapter 165

An ACT for the relief of the heirs of Mary Riddick.
Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures

Chapter 166

An ACT to provide for payment of certain per diem compensation and expenses to certain members of the Virginia Parole Board for a certain period, and declaring an emergency.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Prisons

Chapter 167

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2772, relating to salaries of clerks of boards of supervisors, and to repeal Section 2773 of the Code, relating to the same subject.
Salaries

Chapter 168

An ACT to repeal Sections 1936, 1937 and 1938 in Chapter 80 of the Code of Virginia, relating to desertion and non-support; to amend the Code by adding in Chapter 80 seven new Sections numbered 1936, 1936-a, 1937, 1937-a, 1937-b, 1937-c and 1938, relating to the same subjects, to contain, with certain amendments, the same matters as the sections of the Code repealed and as contained in Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, as amended, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, which relate to the same subjects : and to repeal Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, and all amendments thereof, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, relating to the same subjects.
Amendments, Divorce, Custody of children, Debt, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 169

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 1948-a, authorizing the appointment of referees in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts in certain cities, and prescribing the powers and duties of such referees.
Judicial, Children -- Institutional care, Municipal charters

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1950 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to jurisdiction of juvenile and domestic relations courts so as to broaden the jurisdiction in certain cases.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Marriage, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5327, 5328 and 5329 of the Code of Virginia, relating to custody of and access to minor children in certain cases, to make certain changes in jurisdiction and rights of parents and others.
Custody of children, Divorce, Judicial

Chapter 172

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333-d of the Code of Virginia relating to consent of certain persons in adoption cases.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children

Chapter 173

An ACT to eliminate the roads, streets, causeways, bridges, landings and wharves in certain towns from the secondary system of State highways and to vest jurisdiction and control over them in the local authorities.
Transportation

Chapter 174

An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust, taken by persons named as trustees therein and who were also officers authorized by law to take acknowledgments.
Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 175

An ACT to validate certain pay-roll checks of the Department of Highways, fraudulently obtained and used by William E. Cocke, a foreman on certain highway work, which were cashed and are now held by The Farmers National Bank of Salem.
Budget, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 176

An ACT for the relief of Wilbur D. Chaplin.
Hunting, Fishing, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938, so as to provide for change in the membership of the State Board of Public Welfare.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 178

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 383, 384, 401-b, 401-e and 401-j of the Code of Virginia, relating to awarding contracts for printing and for paper, centralized purchasing, competitive bidding, disposition of moneys collected and other matters pertaining to the functions of the Division of Purchase and Printing.
Business, Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Alcohol

Chapter 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 228 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to water, heat, light and power companies.
Taxation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 180

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5286-a, to provide that trial justices, civil and police justices, and civil justices shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for partition of personal property within certain limits as to value; to provide how such proceedings shall be instituted and conducted; to provide for removals and appeals; and to repeal Chapter 292 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 16, 1918, relating to the same matters.
Amendments, Judicial, Property

Chapter 181

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, and 16 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as heretofore amended, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act
Amendments, Employment and labor, Labor, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 182

An ACT to require all State agencies authorized at any time to con-duct examinations of applicants for admission to practice or pursue any profession, vocation, trade, calling or art to file a copy of each examination given with the Secretary of the Commonwealth as a public record and to provide tor their ultimate disposition.
Employment and labor

Chapter 183

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 363 of the Code of Virginia, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board for the Certification of Librarians.
Education, Public expenditures, Libraries

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 566 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the composition and appointment of the State Board of Accountancy.
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1274 of the Code of Virginia, relating to composition and appointment of the Board of Veterinary Examiners.
Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 186

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1625 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia State Board of Examiners in Optometry.
Amendments, Healthcare, Public officers, Business

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1642 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners.
Amendments, Healthcare, Public officers, Judicial, Employment and labor

Chapter 188

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1666 of the Code of Virginia relating to composition and appointment of the Board of Pharmacy of the State of Virginia.
Amendments, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 189

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1703 of the Code of Virginia relating to Composition and appointment of the State Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 190

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1716 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors of Virginia.
Amendments, Healthcare, Death and burial, Public officers

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1837 of the Code of Virginia, relating to composition and appointment of the Board of Examiners in the Division of Mines and duties thereof.
Amendments, Labor, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 192

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 328 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 19, 1920, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board for the Examination and Certification of Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 193

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, relating to composition and appointment of the State Board of Photographic Examiners.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of Chapter 431 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, relating to composition and appointment of the State Registration Board of Contractors.
Amendments, Business, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 195

An ACT to repeal sections 1608 to 1623, both inclusive (including sections 1614-a and 1615-a), of the Code of Virginia, as amended, the said sections relating to the practice of medicine, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto and inserting in chapter 68 thereof in lieu of the sections herein repealed 17 new sections numbered 1608 to 1623, both inclusive, and section 1613-a, defining and regulating the practice of the healing arts ia the State of Virginia.
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Judicial, Civil Rights, Public officers

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 355 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1942, prescribing, for the State Corporation Commission and the State Highway Commission, certain powers and duties relating to aviation and aviation facilities.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 197

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 4, 5 and 6 of Chapter 218, Acts of 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to probation and parole in Virginia.
Amendments, Prisons, Judicial, Employment and labor

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 28 of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor."
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 199

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as amended, of Chapter 457 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 24, 1920, which act amended and re-enacted, as amended, an act entitled “An Act to extend the limits of, and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers.”
Utilities, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 200

An ACT to authorize the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to harvest and sell timber from its land under certain circumstances.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 201

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1004 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Amendments, Public officers
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