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1944

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3800 of the Code of Virginia,
Amendments, Business, Voting

Chapter 203

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 16, as amended, of chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
Alcohol

Chapter 204

An ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Supervisors of any county which adjoins a county having a population of 1,000 per square mile, or more, as shown by the last preceding United States Census, to appoint an executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of such executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of the board of supervisors and certain other county officers in relation thereto; to prohibit certain county officers, employees and other persons from being interested in transactions in which the county is interested, and making such transactions void; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
Business, Public officers, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 205

An ACT to authorize the County of Orange to assume and pay a certain debt of one of its magisterial districts, and to provide means by which the voters of the county may approve or reject same.
Debt, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 344 of the Code of Virginia.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, and 9 as amended, of an Act entitled “An act to establish a corporation court for the city of Newport News.”
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 208

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 16 of an act entitled “An Act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said town.”
Business, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 209

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6 of Chapter 44 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936-37, approved January 18, 1937, which provided a new charter for the town of Front Royal, and to amend the chapter by adding a new section numbered 70-a, Section 6 relating to salaries of mayor and councilmen, and the new section relating to the operation of public schools in connection with Warren county in the event of the town becoming a city.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Salaries, Education, Public officers

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 20, 25, 37, 40, 47 and 49 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 14, 1918, which provided a new charter for the City of Clifton Forge, relating to powers of council, taxation, issuance of bonds, disbursements, licenses and Commonwealth's Attorney.
Amendments, Taxation, Bonds, Business, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 211

An ACT to authorize the council or other governing body of any city having a population of not less than sixty-five thousand nor more than ninety thousand, according to the last preceding United States census, to provide for the annual assessment and equalization of assessments of real estate, in lieu of the method now prescribed by law.
Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 212

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4 and 8, as amended, of an act entitled ‘““An Act to incorporate the town of Coeburn, in Wise County, Virginia.”
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 213

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5985, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to exemptions from jury service.
Judicial, Agriculture, Healthcare, Public officers, Labor

Chapter 214

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5827-b, prescribing a period after which certain deeds of trust and mortgages and liens reserved to secure unpaid purchase money shall not be enforced.
Property, Debt

Chapter 215

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 435 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to what property exempt from taxation, so as to omit lands owned ‘by the United States.
Taxation, Charity, Religious Institutions, Cemeteries, Education, Amendments, Property

Chapter 216

An ACT to authorize and empower the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to grant to Virginia Electric and Power Company certain easements of right of way across the State Game Farm in New Kent County, Virginia, for the construction, maintenance and operation of electric transmission lines.
Utilities, Public spaces, Property, Wildlife

Chapter 217

An ACT to provide for the publication and distribution, under certain conditions, of certain of the rules and regulations promulgated by certain administrative agencies.
Legislative Amendments, Budget

Chapter 218

An ACT to provide for the editing, publication and distribudiore oF periodical for the dissemination, upon certain conditions, of certain official mat-
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 7 and 10, as amended, of Chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1932, relating to issuing permits and licenses to minors, to drive motor vehicles, and to examination and licensing of applicants for certain licenses.
Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 13 of Chapter 217 of the Acts of Assembly ot 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to consolidated jails and jail farms.
Jails, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 221

An ACT to ratify the action of the Governor of Virginia and the Chairman of the Virginia Conservation Commission in entering into a compact with the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of Tennessee relating to the establishment of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, and to authorize the Virginia Conservation Commission to carry out the provisions of said compact.
Cemeteries, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Pensions, Transportation

Chapter 222

To provide for certain credit to the owner and operator of a motor vehicle truck, who paid the license fee thereon, and was unable to operate the truck for the full license year by reason of his being inducted into the armed forces of the United States.
Armed forces, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 223

An ACT to provide that certain assignments of accounts receivable and of contracts, without notice to the debtors thereon, shall be valid and enforceable and to prescribe the rights of parties with respect to such assignments.
Business, Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 224

An ACT to repeal Chapter 119 of the Acts of Assembly of-49307ap-
Taxation, Business

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "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 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 6, 8 and 9 of Chapter 386 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 2, 1942, relating to the compensation and expenses of sheriffs and sergeants, the feeding and care of jail prisoners and the payment of the costs thereof, the method of keeping and certifying accounts covering such costs, the furnishing of unusual medical, hospital and dental service to prisoners, and prohibiting the use of prisoners in certain instances.
Jails, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Salaries, Public expenditures, Prisons, Judicial, Employment and labor

Chapter 227

An ACT to provide for the regulation of the rates and charges of taxicabs in certain counties, and to provide certain penalties for violation.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 53-a, authorizing cities and counties to establish jointly owned cemeteries, and to provide how such cemeteries shall be established and operated.
Cemeteries

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3163, Section 3210 as amended, Section 3214, and Section 3265 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, all relating to the sea food industry.
Fishing

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 382 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the collection of taxes and levies.
Taxation

Chapter 231

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 275 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the assessment of mineral lands.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 232

An ACT to amend Chapter 161, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926, providing for the creation of sanitary districts
Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 233

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3464 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the retirement of judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6299 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to substitution of trustees in certain cases and the procedure therefor.
Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 235

An ACT to name the system of bridges and roadways connecting the island of Chincoteague with the mainland, The John B. Whealton Memorial Causeway.
Transportation, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6442 of the Code of Virginia, relating to how certain acts to be done and certain notices served after bankruptcy or death of certain persons.
Death and burial, Property

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding, in Chapter 109 thereof, a new section numbered 2726-a 1, relating to annual allowances to clerks of counties, and to repeal section 2726-a of the Code of Virginia, in Chapter 109, relating to annual allowances to sheriffs and clerks of counties.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 238

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 126, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to county surveyors, so as to provide for the appointment of superintendents of the poor for the several counties of the State.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 239

An ACT to amend Section 860 of the Code of Virginia so as to change the corporate name and style of “The Board of Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute” to the corporate name and style of “Virginia Polytechnic Institute”.
Education, Agriculture, Amendments

Chapter 240

An ACT to consolidate the State Teachers College at Radford with the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute to serve and to be known as “Radford College, Woman's Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute”
Education, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 241

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 859 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Education, Public officers, Agriculture

Chapter 242

An ACT to amend and re-enact the title of Chapter 41 of the Code of Virginia; and to amend and re-enact Sections 939, 942 and 943 of the Code of Virginia.
Education, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 243

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6470 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to liens on real estate of judgments and decrees.
Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend Chapter 394 of Acts of Assembly of 1938, designated as the “soil conservation districts law’, approved April 1, 1938, by adding two new sections numbered 8-a and 8-b, relating to the purchase, operation and maintenance of machinery and other equipment suitable for engineering and other operations incident to soil conservation and other purposes of the State Soil Conservation Committee, and making an appropriation.
Agriculture

Chapter 245

An ACT to provide that in certain counties taxes and levies assessed against a life tenant of land shall constitute a lien against timber growing on such land, and to provide how such lien may be enforced.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5021, 5043, and 5045 of the Cade of Virginia, relating to allowances and transportation to prisoners on discharge, payment of rewards for apprehension of convicts, and compensation and bonus which may be paid certain prisoners; to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5045-a, authorizing certain prisoners’ funds to be invested in bonds of the United States; and to repeal Section 5044 of the Code of Virginia relating to rewards for apprehension of convicts.
Prisons, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 247

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3106 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to appeals and removals, and providing for cash deposit in lieu of bond.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 248

An ACT to authorize the Governor of Virginia and the State Hospital Board, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to convey to the College of William and Mary in Virginia, as a gift and without any consideration paid therefor, certain property of the Eastern State Hospital in the city of Williamsburg and the county of James City.
Property, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Healthcare

Chapter 249

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4853, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to regular and special grand juries, to make certain changes as to eligibility of grand jurors.
Judicial, Voting

Chapter 250

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 182-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of dealers in second-hand paper.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 251

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 86 of the Act of Assembly of 1934, approved March 5, 1934, relating to cocaine and other similar drugs and mixtures thereof.
Amendments, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 70 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the taxation of money.
Taxation

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3394 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to general and daily indexes in clerks’ offices.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 254

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5194, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the recordation of certain contracts, deeds and other instruments, and the indexing of such instruments in the office wherein they are recorded.
Property

Chapter 255

An ACT to authorize the Governor, with the approval of the Virginia Art Commission, to accept on behalf of the Commonwealth a tablet commemo- rating Thomas S. Bocock and have it placed on the wall of the old Hall of the House of Delegates; to authorize the Governor, with the approval of the Virgima Art Commission, to have made and placed on the wall of the old Hall of the House of Delegates, tablets bearing the names of certain Speakers of the House of Delegates, and of the presiding officers of certain State Con- ventions; and to appropriate money for that purpose.
Monuments and memorials, Confederate, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 256

An ACT to provide for the appointment of special policemen in certain towns, and to prescribe the conditions upon which such appointments are to be made, and the powers, duties and compensation of such policemen when so appointed.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 257

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 382 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, providing a new charter for the City of Hopewell, Section 8 relating to composition of the council.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1698-a and 1698-c of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to hypnotic drugs.
Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 276-a, providing for the performance of certain notarial acts by or before certain commissioned officers in the armed forces of the United States.
Amendments, Armed forces

Chapter 260

An ACT to provide for regulation of dogs running at large or chasing deer in the county of Augusta, and to provide certain penalties.
Hunting

Chapter 261

An ACT to provide for appointment of conservators, under certain circumstances, for property of persons reported as missing, interned, captured, et cetera; and to provide how any such conservatorship may be terminated.
Property, Custody of children

Chapter 262

An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money in aid of certain Confederate Memorial Associations and organizations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia, to be used in caring for the graves of and cemeteries wherein are buried Confederate soldiers and sailors, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors.
Confederate, Cemeteries, Monuments and memorials, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered fifty-two hundred and twenty-four-a, defining the terms “factoring”, “factor” and “factors” and relating to the creation of liens upon goods or merchandise to provide for the recording of notice of such liens, their application, enforcement and discharge.
Amendments, Business, Debt, Property, Utilities

Chapter 265

An ACT to authorize the State Board of Education to convey a cer-
Education, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 266

An ACT to provide for an addition to the regular cash payments made to certain retired public school teachers out of the Virginia Retirement System fund, and to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act.
Pensions, Education, Public officers

Chapter 267

An ACT to define air carriers and air transportation brokers; to provide for the regulation, supervision, and control of persons, firms, corporations, and associations, owning, controlling, operating, or managing aircraft used for intrastate air transportation of persons or property for compensation or hire or the carriage of mail by aircraft in the air space of this State, and of air transportation brokers, whether such commerce moves wholly by aircraft or partly by aircraft and partly by other forms of transportation; to provide for the regulation of the rates thereof; to provide for and/or regulate and/or control the operation of, and the charges, rates, or services imposed by any person, firm, or corporation operating aircraft for compensation in the air space of this State; to provide for the enforcement of this act, and for the punishment of violations thereof.
Transportation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 268

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4 of Chapter 364 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 20, 1920, relating to the control and prevention of venereal disease; and to further amend the chapter by adding a new section numbered 4-a, relating to the same subject.
Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 269

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 71 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved February 25, 1942, relating to disposition of surplus from proceeds of sale under deeds of trust under certain circumstances.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Death and burial, Property, Debt, Wards

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 170 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 12, 1936, relating to composition and appointment of the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 271

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 49, as amended, of the Game.
Hunting, Fishing, Property, Civil Rights

Chapter 272

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 326 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 29, 1938, as amended, relating to compensation of deputy clerks in counties of less than a certain population.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 273

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 11, as amended, of Chapter 105 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved February 27, 1922, relating to the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Public Welfare, and the fees paid for the maintenance of certain children.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 274

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5 and 6 of an act entitled "An Act to provide a new charter for the city of Alexandria, Virginia."
Municipal charters, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 275

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3042-a, authorizing counties, cities and towns having the right of eminent domain to exercise the right of condemnation in the same manner as is prescribed by law for condemnation proceedings instituted by the State Highway Commission.
Property, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 276

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4235-d of the Code of Virginia relating to domestic insurance companies of this State insuring the lives and persons of residents of certain other States.
Business, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 277

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dissolution of marriages and divorce.
Divorce, Custody of children, Marriage, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 278

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5410 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fiduciaries exhibiting their accounts for settlement.
Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 279

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5970 of the Code of Virginia relating to the opening of a court of record, its sitting, and providing for cases where such a court fails to meet on the day appointed or to which it is adjourned.
Judicial

Chapter 280

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 807 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia.
Education, Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 281

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 835 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute.
Amendments, Armed forces, Education, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 935 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Education, Amendments, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 283

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 3, as amended, of an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Medical College of Virginia.”
Education, Healthcare, Business, Public officers

Chapter 284

An ACT to provide for a temporary addition to the regular cash compensation of certain State officers and employees, and to prescribe how such additional cash compensation shall be computed and paid; to appropriate funds to carry out the provisions of this act; and to authorize the Governor under certain conditions to terminate such payments by Executive Order.
Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 285

An ACT to amend Chapter 94 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known as “The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act”, by adding a new section numbered 17-a, providing for levying a tax upon certain alcoholic beverages as defined in the act, and for the collection of the tax.
Alcohol, Taxation

Chapter 286

An ACT to provide facilities and opportunity for absentee voting by members of the armed forces and certain affliated services by making certain temporary changes in the primary and general election laws of the State relating to the nomination and election of Senators and Representatives in Congress, and the election of Electors for President and Vice-President, with respect to (a) the effect of failure to register and pay poll taxes by said members upon their eligibility to vote and the furnishing of absentee ballots to them; (b) the time within which candidates for said offices shall qualify so as to have their names printed on the official ballots, and (c) the time for and method of printing said ballots, and to provide for compliance by State and local officers with the provisions of certain Federal statutes relating to absentee voting by members of the armed forces in such elections, and to limit the duration of this act.
Armed forces, Voting, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 287

An ACT to create a fund for the benefit of and as part of the estate of Virginia members of the armed forces of the United States and certain affiliated services; to provide for the payment, out of said fund, upon written request of any such member, of his poll tax or taxes necessary to enable such member to vote in elections for members of the General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and all county and city officers ; to provide for the registration for such elections by mail by such members who are physically unable, by reason of service in the armed forces, to appear in person before the registration officer for the purpose of registering under the provisions of Section 20 of the Constitution of Virginia; to make similar provision for registration and poll tax payments to enable such members to vote in elections for Presidential and Vice-Presidential electors and Senators and Representatives in Congress under certain conditions, and to provide certain conditions and limitations with respect to the taking effect of and duration of this Act.
Armed forces, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights, Public officers

Chapter 288

An ACT to provide facilities and opportunity for absentee voting by Virginia members of the armed forces of the United States and certain affiliated services by making certain temporary changes in the primary and general election laws of the State relating to the nomination and election of members of the General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General, and all county and city officers, with respect to (a) the effect of failure to register and pay poll taxes by said members upon their eligibility to vote; (b) the furnishing of absentee ballots to all qualified members; (c) the time within which candidates for said offices shall qualify so as to have their names printed on the official ballots, and (d) the time for and method of printing said ballots and the distribution thereof; and to limit the duration of this act.
Armed forces, Voting, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 289

An ACT to authorize the Attorney General to institute mandamus proceedings in the Supreme Court of Appeals in certain cases and under certain circumstances to secure an adjudication by said Court respecting the construction, interpretation or constitutionality of Acts of the General Assembly which direct or require the payment of appropriations of the State Treasury, and to empower said Court to render a final adjudication of said questions.
Budget, Public expenditures, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 290

An ACT to repeal Sections 3616, 3617, 3628, 3629, 3632 and 3641 of the Code of Virginia, relating to pilots and piloting; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 142, two new sections numbered 3616 and 3617, relating to pilots and piloting; and to amend and re-enact Sections 3631 and 3645 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same subject.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 291

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 as amended of an act entitled “An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, and to authorize the purchase of a part of Mount Vernon, passed March 17, 1856.”
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 292

An ACT for the relief of the Trustees of the Botetourt Church of the Brethren, the General Mission Board of the Church of the Brethren, and Daleville College.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Taxation

Chapter 293

An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns to establish and maintain post-war public works reserve funds, and to expend same; to formulate, develop and revise capital budgets and schedules for long range, post-war programs of public works projects.
Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 294

An ACT to provide for the purging of the registration books in the counties and cities in which there is a general registrar.
Voting

Chapter 295

An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to release upon certain conditions the liability for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid county and district taxes upon real estate for the year 1942 and all previous years, and to release officers charged with the collection of such taxes from liability for interest, penalties and costs.
Taxation

Chapter 296

An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties, cities or towns to release upon certain conditions the liability for interest, penalties and accrued costs on unpaid taxes upon real estate for the year 1940 and all previous years, and to release officers charged with the duty of collection of these taxes from liability for such interest, penalties and costs, upon certain conditions.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 297

An ACT to provide that in counties having a certain density of population, persons engaged in the business of selling pistols or revolvers at retail shall register with and obtain certain permits from the chief of police; to require any person desiring to purchase any such weapon to obtain a permit so to do; and to provide that no person obtaining a permit to sell shall sell, give or furnish any such weapon to any person unless he delivers to the dealer a permit. obtained under the provisions of this act; and to prescribe penalties for violations.
Armed forces, Business, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 298

An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to acquire by condemnation or otherwise, lands within the county for the establishment of parks, play-grounds, or other recreational facilities, and to prescribe the procedure in case of condemnation.
Recreation

Chapter 299

An ACT to authorize depositories of county funds of Charlotte County to deposit with the State Treasurer securities to protect such deposits, and to prescribe how controversies with respect to such securities shall be heard and determined.
Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 as amended, and Section 12-a of Chapter 161 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926, approved March 17, 1926, relating to sanitary districts in certain counties.
Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 301

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled "An Act to provide for the relief of volunteer firemen of Fairfax county killed or injured while engaged in fighting fires or in going to or returning therefrom."
Fire fighters, Public expenditures

Chapter 302

An ACT to provide for the appointment of general registrars for certain counties, and to prescribe the duties of such general registrars.
Voting
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