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1946

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 102

An ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Wachapreague
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Public officers, Public spaces, Pensions, Healthcare, Transportation, Recreation, Education, Legislative Amendments, Property, Employment and labor, Amendments

Chapter 103

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 82 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 8, 1938, relating to the composition of the Virginia State Planning Board.
Amendments, Business, Public officers, Agriculture

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 427 of the Acts of Assembly ot 1936, approved March 30, 1936, relating to the creation of county planning commissions.
Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 105

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1798 of the Code of Virginia relating to the appointment of the Commissioner of Labor.
Employment and labor, Labor, Public officers

Chapter 106

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4, as amended, of Chapter 180 of the Acts of Assembly of 1914, approved March 21, 1914, which amended and re-enacted Chapter 114 of the Acts of Assembly of 1874, approved March 16, 1874, as that chapter was amended, which latter chapter incorporated and provided a charter for the Town of Boydton, the section relating to certain officers of the town.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 91 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to the taxation of bank and trust company stock; and to amend: Section 97-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to branch banks in towns so as to include within its provisions branch banks in cities.
Taxation, Budget, Business

Chapter 108

An ACT to provide an open season for killing deer in the County of King and Queen; to prescribe the number of deer that may be killed; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict.
Hunting

Chapter 109

An ACT to provide an open season for killing deer in the County of Caroline; to prescribe the number of deer that may be killed; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict.
Hunting

Chapter 110

An ACT to authorize and empower the governing body of the College of William and Mary in Virginia to sell and convey a lot of land situate in the City of Williamsburg, Virginia.
Property, Education, Public officers

Chapter 111

An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of certain counties which own and operate certain kinds of parks, to designate one of its members to manage or supervise the management of same, and to provide for compen- sation for such services.
Recreation

Chapter 112

An ACT to authorize the State Hospital Board to sell and convey certain real estate in the County of Amherst.
Property

Chapter 113

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3409, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to when license to practice law may be granted without examination
Lawyers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 114

An ACT to repeal Section 4440-a of the Code of Virginia prescribing punishment for larceny of certain rubber tires or tubes.
Repeal of legislation, Property

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of Chapter 377 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, relating to support and maintenance of the public free schools, minimum terms thereof and the apportionment of the State appropriation for such purposes.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 116

An ACT to amend Chapter 247 of the Acts of Assembly of 1930, approved March 24, 1930, cited as “The Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia’, by adding a new section numbered 48-a, relating to bounties on certain animals.
Amendments, Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 117

An ACT to confer certain jurisdiction upon the circuit court and the trial justice of Norfolk county.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 118

An ACT to describe, define, and officially adopt a system of coordinates for designating and stating the positions of points on the surface of the earth within the Commonwealth of Virginia
Utilities, Property, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 119

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, Public officers

Chapter 120

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 of Chapter 483 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved March 27, 1922, which chapter provided for the appointment, in the counties and in certain cities, of special justices to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts and prescribed their jurisdiction, powers, duties and compensation, Section 5 relating to powers and jurisdiction of such special justices.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Civil Rights, Divorce, Judicial

Chapter 121

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 306, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to the duties of the Clerk of the House of Delegates.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 122

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2925 of the Code of Virginia so as to provide the manner in which certain cities may request the General Assembly to grant to them a special form of government.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 74 of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to compensation for livestock and poultry, killed or injured, and treatment of rabies.
Agriculture, Healthcare

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the City of Portsmouth.”
Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 125

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5, 8, 10, 23 and 24, as amended, of Chapter 385 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, as amended, approved March 29, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the “Virginia Operators’ and Chauffeurs’ License Act”, relating to what persons shall not be licensed; applications for operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses to drive motor vehicles, expiration dates thereof; violation of license provisions and making false statements; punishment.
Amendments, Business, Employment and labor, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 126

An ACT to provide for the issuance of bonds to carry into effect the purposes for which any sanitary district has been or may hereafter be created.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Taxation

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and to repeal Sections 9, 11, 13, and 19, of Chapter 49 of the Acts of the Extra Session of the General Assembly of 1933, relating to the issuance and sale of revenue bonds by certain educational institutions.
Amendments, Education, Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5440-b, to apportion the payment of Federal estate taxes on resident decedents among those who receive the property on which the tax is based, and to provide that the section shall apply also to State assessments made under Section 115 of the Tax Code of Virginia.
Taxation, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 129

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5216 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the recordation of certain judgments, orders and decrees with respect to land.
Property

Chapter 130

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5145-a, validating certain deeds executed by agents or attorneys-in-fact for certain persons in military service or engaged in war work.
Armed forces, Property, Judicial

Chapter 131

An ACT to provide for certain maximum and minimum charges and fees which may be imposed by public warehouses operated for the sale of burley tobacco, and to prescribe penalties for violations.
Agriculture

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2772-a authorizing the governing bodies of counties to acquire land for the dumping of waste material and to prohibit the dumping of such material elsewhere without the written consent of landowner and providing penalties.
Property, Public officers

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 10, 27 and 40, as amended, of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the “Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of 1938”, relating to the eligibility of aged persons, dependent children and blind persons for aid and assistance under the act.
Healthcare

Chapter 134

An ACT to provide for the control, management, maintenance and operation of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium; to provide how patients may be received therein; to prescribe the purposes for which the revenues derived therefrom shall be used; to appropriate the same for such purposes; and to repeal Chapter 360 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 135

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 of an act entitled ‘An act to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State Department of Highways, the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.”
Budget, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 136

An ACT to provide the manner in which local funds shall be contributed to match Federal Highway funds for the construction or improvement of Federal or State Highways within urban places when such matching is required, and how such highways shall be marked and signed.
Transportation

Chapter 137

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5789 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compromises of claims for damages for wrongful death, and distribution of amounts paid under such compromises.
Death and burial, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section to be numbered 3071-b, relating to the docketing of abstracts of ordinances or resolutions authorizing special assessments against abutting land owners for certain public improvements.
Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 139

An ACT to reduce the number of trustees of Margaret Academy, and to provide how such trustees shall be appointed; and to confer certain powers and impose certain duties upon such trustees with respect to trust funds held by them.
Education, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 140

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

Chapter 141

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county adjoining any city within or without this State having a population of more than one hundred twenty-five thousand according to the last preceding United States census to establish a department of public utilities, and to authorize any such Board to employ personnel and to make rules and regulations for the operation of such department.
Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 142

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 306 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved March 29, 1944, relating to appointment of general registrars in certain counties and duties thereof.
Voting, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 143

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5983 of the Code of Virginia, relating to how person may change name.
Amendments, Custody of children, Judicial

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5333-m, relating to exercise of certain powers in regard to adoption by judges of courts in vacation.
Judicial, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 145

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5343 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dispensing with intervention of guardians for infants in certain cases.
Children -- Institutional care, Custody of children, Judicial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of Chapter 415 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 4, 194Z, relating to placing names of other candidates on official ballots when certain candidates have died or withdrawn.
Amendments, Voting

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4 and 5 of Chapter 364 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934, relating to compensation of Commonwealth’s Attorneys and other officers.
Budget, Salaries, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5016-a, to prohibit punishment of any prisoner by whipping, or other similar corporal punishment.
Prisons, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 of Chapter 3 of the Acts of Assembly, Extra Session 1933, known as the 3.2 Beverage Act, approved August 29, 1933, so as to authorize cities and towns, in imposing local merchants’ and local restaurant license taxes, to include 3.2 beverages in the base for measuring such taxes.
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 26 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, approved March 7, 1934, so as to authorize cities and towns, in imposing local merchants’ and local restaurant license taxes, to include alcoholic beverages in the base for measuring such taxes
Alcohol

Chapter 151

An ACT to repeal Sections 1703 to 1714, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the practice of the professional nursing of the sick, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto and inserting in Chapter 71 thereof in lieu of the sections herein repealed twelve new sections numbered 1703 to 1714, both inclusive, defining and regulating the nursing of the sick in the State of Virginia
Healthcare, Education, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 152

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1110, 1111, 1112, as amended, 115, 1120, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the registration, branding, analysis and sale of fertilizers and plant foods and penalties for violations.
Agriculture, Business, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of Chapter 98 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved February 27, 1940, authorizing establishment of mosquito control districts, the section relating to levy of taxes.
Amendments, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5317 and 5325 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, such sections relating to the appointment of guardians, their powers and duties, and the investment of fiduciary funds.
Custody of children, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto 2 new section numbered 683-a, to require school buses to be equipped with heaters.
Education

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 14 and 15 of an act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926; to amend and re-enact Section 27-a of said act, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1930; and to amend and re-enact Section 29 of said act, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1942; in relation to the composition of the City Council and terms of office of members thereof, the powers and duties of the city purchasing agent and heads of departments, and the number and election of trustees of the city school board.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Education, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 47 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conveyances of land by certain ‘benevolent or literary associations or school leagues, so as to include within the scope of the section certain associations of veterans of the armed forces.
Amendments, Armed forces

Chapter 158

An ACT relating to apples; to create the Virginia State Apple Commission and to prescribe its powers and duties; to promote the sale and consumption of Virginia apples by providing for campaigns of education, advertising, publicity, sales promotion and research; to levy an excise tax on apples packed in closed packages, to provide for its collection, and to appropriate the revenue derived from it; and to provide penalties for violations on this on
Agriculture, Business, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 159

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1517 of the Code of Virginia, regulating the furnishing and use of towels in certain places.
Business

Chapter 160

An ACT relating to police departments and police forces in certain
Law Enforcement

Chapter 161

An ACT to provide for police and firemen’s pensions and benefits in certain counties.
Pensions, Public officers, Fire fighters, Law Enforcement, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 461 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 21, 1924, which provided for the licensing and regulation of real estate brokers and salesmen, the section relating to causes for suspension or revocation of license.
Business

Chapter 163

An ACT to authorize the City of Suffolk to issue bonds in the amount of $70,000 to enable the city to restore to its general fund moneys advanced therefrom to pay certain matured outstanding obligations of the city; to provide
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 164

An ACT to provide for the regulation of the operation of refrigerated locker plants and the dealing in, handling and processing of food for human consumption in connection therewith; to provide standards of sanitation and quality; to provide a system of licenses; defining certain offenses and providing penalties therefor; and providing for lien and foreclosure.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 165

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3, as amended, of Chapter 141 of the Acts of Assembly of 1874-5, approved March 8, 1875, which chapter provided a charter for the Town of Glade Spring, Section 3 relating to the mayor and councilmen and other officers.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 166

An ACT to require county agents in certain counties to perform certain duties in relation to the prevention, abatement and control of certain diseases of livestock and poultry; to confer certain powers; and to require certain officers to assist in the enforcement of this act.
Agriculture

Chapter 167

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 211 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved March 14, 1944, which chapter provided for the annual assessment of real estate in certain cities, Section 8 relating to the abolishment of the board of assessors.
Amendments, Property, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 168

An ACT to authorize the development, operation and administration of housing projects for World War II Veterans by any Housing Authority of this State or of any political subdivision thereof; to authorize such Housing Authority to obtain and utilize housing properties and financial loans or grants from the Federal Government or any agency thereof; and to authorize political subdivisions of this State to make loans to any such Housing Authority; and to declare an emergency.
Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 169

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

Chapter 170

An ACT to provide for the expenditure or application of certain funds, within the appropriation for such purpose, in aid of libraries and library systems particularly in rural communities, and to prescribe the powers, and duties of the State Library Board and others with respect thereto; and to repeal Chapter 350, Acts of 1942, approved March 31, 1942, and Chapter 315, Acts 1944, approved March 29, 1944, both relating to the same subject, and all inconsistent provisions of law to the extent of such inconsistency.
Education, Libraries, Public expenditures, Reformatories

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4806 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the functions and duties of coroners.
Coroner, Death and burial

Chapter 172

An ACT to authorize the governing body of any county or city to require a bond of certain persons; to provide where such bonds shall be filed; to provide penalties; and to provide how such bonds may be proceeded upon.
Business

Chapter 173

An ACT to authorize the counties of Warwick, Elizabeth City and York, the Cities of Newport News and Hampton, and the Town of Phoebus, or any two or more of them, to create a commission, to be known as the “Grandview State Park Commission” for the purpose of establishing and operating a State Park and park facilities for public use, for such counties, cities and towns and the general public at large until such park and facilities shall be transferred to the Virginia Conservation Commission for operation; and to prescribe the rights, powers, duties and functions of such commission when so formed and of the counties, cities and towns for which such commission is created.
Public spaces, Budget

Chapter 174

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1204 of the Code of Virginia relating to sterilization of certain containers.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 175

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county adjoining any city within or without this State having a population of more than one hundred twenty-five thousand, according to 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 and water supply system or systems; to furnish water from any such system to any sanitary district, village, town, community, individual, firm, corporation or partnership; to make 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, reconstruction and extension of any such water supply 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, extension and operation of any such water supply system on the credit of the county and/or on the basis of net returns from sale of water from such systems and without the credit of the county being pledged, 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 or extend such water supply 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 sense of the qualified voters of the county on the question of such loan and bond issue, and prescribing the duties of the Judge of the said Circuit Court of said county; prescribing the duties of the County Electoral Board and the Judges of Election and other election officials and other public officers, and prescribing the duties and powers of the board of supervisors; exempting certain incorporated towns from the operation of this act; and to repeal Chapter 369 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1942, approved April 1, 1942.
Utilities, Property, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 176

An ACT to authorize the severance and sale of buildings and other improvements from land to be purchased by the Radford College, Woman's Division, of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and to appropriate the proceeds of such sale or sales.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5115 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to merging a decree for divorce from bed and board into a decree from the bond of matrimony.
Divorce

Chapter 178

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 6454-a, providing for the execution, filing and indexing of chattel deeds of trust on livestock, poultry, farm machinery, and crops; prescribing the kinds of indebtedness that may be secured by such deeds of trust and the character of the liens created thereby; providing how such deeds of trust may be assigned, how foreclosed, and how released; prescribing the fees to be paid clerks of courts for certain services in connection with such deeds of trust; and to repeal Chapter 336 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 27, 1936, relating to borrowing money from production credit associations, and Section 5202-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to chattel mortgages on livestock or poultry.
Agriculture, Debt, Business, Property

Chapter 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 142 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved March 9, 1922, which provided for appointment of an assistant attorney for the Commonwealth for the City of Norfolk, so as to authorize appointment, by the attorney for the Commonwealth of such city, of an additional assistant attorney for the Commonwealth, and to prescribe his power, duties, functions and compensation.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 180

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 673 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to loans contracted by school boards of counties for certain school purposes.
Education, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 181

An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to construct and maintain platforms, walkways or other facilities for the use of persons desiring to fish from bridges in the State highway system.
Fishing, Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 182

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding 3 new sections numbered 5108-a, 5167-a 1 and 5439-a to provide forms that may be used in the publication of requisite notice in certain proceedings or under certain circumstances.
Amendments, Divorce, Inheritance and succession, Property, Public officers

Chapter 183

An ACT to define flour and meal, and to fix standard weight packages.
Agriculture

Chapter 184

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9, and Section 10 as amended, of Chapter 431 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved April 1, 1938, relating to the registration of general contractors and subcontractors, and the revocation and reissuance of certificates to such contractors.
Business, Employment and labor

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4 and 4-j of Chapter 310 of the Acts of 1938, approved March 29, 1938, as amended by Chapter 224 of the Acts of 1942, approved March 14, 1942, relating to the creation of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth with powers to undertake slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income in urban and rural areas; to provide that such political subdivisions shall be known as redevelopment and housing authorities and to define “farmers of low income”; and to further amend said Chapter 310, as amended, by adding thereto eleven new sections numbered Sections 4-p, 4-q, 4-r, 8-a, 8-b, 8-c, 8-d, 8-e, 8-f, 8-g, and 8-h to clarify provisions relating to slum clearance and housing on farms and in other areas outside of cities; to authorize payments to other political subdivisions; to provide for housing research and study; to authorize redevelopment and housing authorities to clear slums and blighted areas, to acquire real property in connection therewith and make it available for redevelopment by private enterprise or public agencies; to confer certain powers relating to redevelopment projects on cities and other public bodies; and to make obligations issued in connection with redevelopment projects legal investments and security for deposits.
Property

Chapter 186

An ACT to declare the necessity of creating public bodies corporate and politic to be known as hospital authorities to engage in hospital construction, maintenance and operation, to provide for the creation of such hospital authorities; to define the powers and duties of hospital authorities, and to provide for the exercise of such powers, including acquiring property by purchase, gift or eminent domain, and borrowing money, issuing revenue and credit bonds and other obligations, and giving security therefor; and to confer rights upon and provide remedies for obligees of hospital authorities.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters, Pensions, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding two new sections numbered 587-a and 58/-b relating to certain charitable trusts, their validity and administration; and providing for the recordation of instruments creating or affecting such trusts, and their incorporation by reference in certain other instruments.
Charity

Chapter 188

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 3409-a, authorizing the Supreme Court of Appeals to grant, without examination, licenses to practice law to certain persons who served in the armed forces of the United States.
Armed forces, Lawyers, Judicial, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 189

An ACT to provide for the annual assessment and equalization of assessments of real estate in certain counties, by boards of real estate assessments; to provide for the appointment of the members of such boards and their terms of office; to prescribe their powers and duties, and provide for their compensation; and to prescribe remedies for persons aggrieved by any such assessments.
Budget, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 190

An ACT concerning blighted areas and substandard and insanitary buildings in certain cities of the Commonwealth; providing for the creation of corporations to clear such areas, demolish such buildings and undertake projects for the redevelopment thereof; providing for the supervision of such corporations and approval of such projects and plans for such redevelopment; granting such corporations the power to acquire property for such purposes, to exercise the power of eminent domain, and to sell, lease, exchange or donate such property; and prescribing the powers and duties of councils and city planning commissions of such cities with respect to such redevelopment projects
Property

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5191-b, relating to the rights of the parties under certain contracts for the sale of personal property wherein the title thereto or a lien thereon is reserved to secure unpaid purchase money
Property

Chapter 192

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 118, 119, 122 as amended, 150, 152, 154 as amended, 157 as amended, 159, 163, 166, 176, 179, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196 and 201 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the election franchise and qualifications for office; and to repeal Section 169 of the Code of Virginia relating to penalties.
Amendments, Voting, Civil Rights, Public officers

Chapter 193

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 203 as amended, 205 as amended, 207, 208 as amended, 210, 211 as amended, 212, 213 and 216 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voting without personal appearance at the polls.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter numbered 17-B, consisting of eight new sections numbered 268-a to 268-h, both inclusive, providing what shall constitute offenses against the election laws, and prescribing penalties for violations of such laws; and to repeal Chapter 186 of the Code of Virginia relating to the same subject.
Voting

Chapter 195

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5401, 5404, 5408 as amended, 5409, 5409-a, 5420 as amended, and 5439 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to fiduciaries and their accounts, and the handling and distribution of fiduciary funds and of estates, and to repeal Section 5410 as amended of the Code of Virginia providing how fiduciaries may be compelled to exhibit their accounts.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Property

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 35, 35-b, 35-d, 36, and 36-c of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, as heretofore amended by Chapter 377 of the Acts of 1942, said chapters of said acts and amendments thereto being known and designated as the “Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia”, and to further amend said Act by adding thereto a new section to said Motor Vehicle Code designated as Section 35-aa, said sections amended and added relating to fees for registration, licenses of motor vehicles, reduction of fees after certain periods, registration of dealers; fees therefor; gross receipts taxes upon certain motor vehicle carriers, registration of certain vehicles; fees therefor ; certain reciprocal agreements; to amend and re-enact Section 5 of Chapter 212 of the Acts of 1932, as amended, and being known as the “Motor Fuel Tax Act”; and to amend ‘and re-enact Section 4 of Chapter 307 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, known as the “Use Fuel Tax Act’, the latter two sections relating to the taxes upon motor fuels; and to amend and re-enact Chapter 153 of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and forty-two relating to the apportionment of the motor fuels tax.
Transportation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 197

An ACT to provide for the hospitalization and treatment of indigent persons through joint action of the State and the counties and cities thereof.
Healthcare, Charity, Budget

Chapter 198

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 155 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1942, being “an act to authorize the State Highway Commission to provide by-passes through or around cities and incorporated towns, and to make the provisions of general law with respect to certain roads and highways applicable to such by-passes”
Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 199

An ACT to appropriate money to the Virginia Conservation Commission, to be used for the purchase of the Ayers Building, in the town of Big Stone Gap.
Public expenditures

Chapter 200

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 30 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, so as to provide for local option in certain towns upon the question shall the sale of beer and wine be permitted in said town; and to provide how and when said election may be held.
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 201

An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 155, as amended, of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 22, 1932, relating to relief from certain erroneous or improper assessment of taxes.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property
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