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1948

Displaying 501 - 549 of 549

Chapter 507

An ACT to authorize and empower the State Highway Commissioner

Transportation

Chapter 508

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 30-a requiring certain persons drilling wells for water, oil, or gas to supply the State Geological Survey Division of the Virginia Conservation Commission with geological and other data, and to prohibit and punish violations

Amendments, Industry, Utilities

Chapter 509

An ACT to provide an open season for killing deer in the county of Middlesex; to prescribe the number of deer that may be killed; and to epee conflicting regulations and statutes.

Hunting

Chapter 510

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 113-a of Chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932 and cited as 'The Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia', to authorize the State Highway Commission to increase certain maximum weights permitted on certain highways and to provide penalties for exceeding maximum weights permitted,

Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 511

An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 779, 783, and 786, as amended of the Code of Virginia relating to division superintendents and clerks of school boards, and to the receipt, custody and disbursement of State funds apportioned and designed for public schools in cities and towns.

Education, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 512

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 671 as amended of the Code of Virginia relating to erection of school buildings and requirements

Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 513

An ACT to provide for the development, use and maintenance of a war memorial in the county of Arlington, Virginia, and to that end to authorize and empower the county of Arlington, Virginia, and the school board of such county to contract with each other and with certain associations in relation to a stadium and an athletic field or other recreational facilities as a memorial; to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and obligations of the parties to, and under, such contract; to authorize contributions and donations to be made to, and accepted for, such memorial and to prescribe how same shall be disposed of; and to authorize the county to provide for the use of such memorial.

Recreation, Public officers, Prisons, Law Enforcement

Chapter 515

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding seven sections numbered 1276-a through 1276-g dealing with qualifications for practice of veterinary medicine, requisites for certificates, examinations, fees, power of board to grant, refuse, suspend or revoke certificates, hearings and appeals and to repeal Section 1276.

Healthcare

Chapter 516

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4222 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain insurance companies doing business in the state.

Amendments, Business, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 517

An ACT to regulate the production, handling, distribution and sale of milk, cream and certain milk products; to define certain terms, prohibit certain acts and provide penalties for violations; to provide for the administration of the act and the making of certain rules and regulations; and to repeal Chapter 155 of the Acts of assembly of 1934, approved March 24, 1934, and all amendments thereto, relating to the foregoing.

Agriculture, Business, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 518

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 653-a 1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to School Trustee Electoral Boards, County School Boards, and compensation of members.

Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 519

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 18 as amended of the Virginia Retirement Act relating to management of funds.

Amendments, Pensions, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 520

An ACT to regulate the holding of game animals, game birds and game fish in freezer lockers and cold storage plants.

Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 521

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1514-b 21 of the Code of Virginia relating to penalties for violation of State Water Control Law.

Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 522

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 698, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, providing for the levying of taxes and the appropriating of money by counties, cities and towns for public school purposes.

Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 523

An ACT to provide for better sanitation in and around Weber City

Utilities, Bonds

Chapter 524

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 2773-i 3, providing the time of election and terms of office of certain members of county school boards of certain counties; and providing for an election to determine the sense of the qualified voters thereon.

Education, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 525

An ACT to provide for the submission of proposed amendments to Sections 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 31, 35, 38 and 173 of the Constitution of Virginia and to add two new sections numbered 31-a and 38-a to 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, Voting, Civil Rights, Taxation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 526

Proposing amendments to Sections 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 31, 35, 38 and 173 of the Constitution of Virginia and adding two new sections numbered 31-a and 38-a.

Amendments, Civil Rights, Voting, Taxation

Chapter 527

An ACT to protect the public health and to this end to provide for the regulation of sanitary conditions in certain establishments offering lodging to the transient public, to require a safe water supply and adequate waste disposal; to require the State Board of Health to enforce this law and authorize the Board to make certain regulations therefor, to provide certain penalties, and to provide for appeals from actions of the State Health Commissioner; to amend and re-enact Sections 1585, 1589, 1590 and 1592, of the age of Virginia as they have been severally amended, relating to inspection of hotels and ers the same, and to repeal Sections 1594, 1595, 1596, 1598, 1600, 1601 and 1607-a of the Code of Virginia relating to ‘hotels, and tourist camps and filling stations.

Healthcare

Chapter 528

An ACT to amend and reenact Chapter 354, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved April 1, 1942, relating to establishment, terms and conditions of certain medical scholarships, so as to expand the provisions thereof and make an appropriation therefor.

Education, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 529

An ACT to establish certain scholarships for nursing training, to prescribe the terms and conditions thereof and to make an appropriation therefor.

Education, Healthcare, Civil Rights, Charity

Chapter 530

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 23, as amended, of Chapter 325 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 31, 1942, and known as the Virginia Retirement Act, relating to benefits to teachers who were retired under Chapter 36 of the Code of Virginia as it existed immediately prior to the establishment of the Virginia Retirement System; to prescribe a minimum retirement allowance for every such teacher, and to make an appropriation.

Pensions, Education, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 531

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 1619-a, authorizing the State Board of Medical Examiners to suspend or revoke the certificate or license of or to prosecute for illegal practice certain persons responsible for or implicated in practices for which a hospital license has been suspended or revoked by the State Board of Health.

Healthcare

Chapter 532

An ACT to define 'Household Goods Carriers'; to provide for the regulation, supervision and control of such carriers and their rates, charges and services; and to prohibit unfair discriminations therein; to provide for the issuance, suspension and revocation of certificates of convenience and Necessity for such carriers by the State Corporation Commission; to provide for the enforcement of this act and penalties for violation thereof; and to make applicable to such carriers certain provisions of the Motor Vehicle Carrier Laws of Virginia.

Transportation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 533

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 Confederate cemeteries and graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors not otherwise cared for in cemeteries, and in erecting and caring for markers and monuments to such soldiers and sailors.

Confederate, Cemeteries, Charity, Public expenditures, Civil Rights

Chapter 534

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Blanche M. Shifflett.

Healthcare, Death and burial, Civil Rights, Judicial, Public expenditures, Wards

Chapter 535

An ACT to provide for the protection of the public health and to regulate certain establishments serving food; to require certain standards to be kept as to sanitary conditions therein, to provide for the enforcement of the act, the issuance and revocation of certain permits and appeals therefrom; and to prohibit certain acts and provide penalties.

Healthcare, Business, Public officers

Chapter 536

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1058 of the Code of Virginia relating to expenses of certain insane, epileptic or feeble-minded persons and persons addicted to drugs or the intemperate use of alcohol, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding 5 new sections numbered 1058-a through 1058-e, requiring reimbursement of the State for the care of such persons and providing for the collection thereof.

Healthcare, Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 537

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4987-e of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the salaries and expenses of office of trial justices

Salaries, Judicial, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 538

An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 2, as amended, 4 and 6 as amended, of Chapter 197 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 23, 1946, providing for the hospitalization, care and treatment of indigent persons, and the allocation, expenditure and use of funds provided for such purposes; to amend the chapter by adding two new sections numbered 5-a and 5-b, relating to certain contracts; and to repeal Section 7, as amended, of such chapter, relating to credits, and to appropriate funds.

Healthcare, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 539

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5978-a, as amended, of the Code of Virginia providing for the retirement of certain judges; and the compensation to be paid such retired judges.

Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 540

An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 10 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”, by reducing period of residence in Virginia required as a condition for assistance to the aged and aid to the blind.

Amendments, Healthcare

Chapter 541

An ACT to repeal Sections 14 and 44, as amended, of Chapter 379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, and known as the Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of 1938 relating to limitations on assistance to the aged and aid to the blind.

Amendments, Charity, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 542

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4548-g of the Code of Virginia relating to commitment of certain misdemeanants and to powers of the State Board of Public Welfare.

Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Vagrancy

Chapter 543

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1514-a 2 of the Code of Virginia, with respect to definitions, so as to exclude any home for indigent aged persons, operated by a county, city or town, from the provisions of the Virginia Hospital Licensing and Inspection Law, added to the Code of Virginia by Chapter 15 of the Acts of the General Assembly, 1947.

Healthcare, Public officers, Charity, Municipal charters

Chapter 544

An ACT to provide for the study of the problems of alcoholism, the treatment and rehabilitation of persons addicted to the excessive use of alcoholic beverages; and for other purposes; and to this end to create in the Department of Health a Division of Alcohol Studies and Rehabilitation subject to the State Board of Health; to provide for a Director of the Division of Alcoholic Studies and Rehabilitation and to confer upon the Board, the Director and the Division, respectively, certain powers, duties and functions; to provide for the establishment and operation of certain hospital and clinic facilities for the study, treatment and rehabilitation of persons addicted to the excessive use of alcoholic beverages; to authorize the receipt and expenditure of certain grants and gifts; to authorize the entry into certain cooperative undertakings ; and to make an appropriation.

Alcohol, Healthcare, Reformatories, Public expenditures

Chapter 545

An ACT to authorize the State Board of Health with the approval of the Governor, to sell and convey, or to transfer to another agency of the Commonwealth, certain property in Princess Anne County formerly owned by the Tidewater Tuberculosis Hospital Association, together with additions thereto and improvements thereon; to prescribe how the proceeds of such sale or transfer shall be used; and to provide for a memorial tablet to certain persons.

Healthcare, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Death and burial

Chapter 546

An ACT to authorize the acquisition by the Governor for the Commonwealth of certain real estate in the city of Richmond, and to provide for the improvement and use of such property when acquired; to authorize the opening and closing of certain streets adjoining such property; to make available funds for the purposes of this act; and to prescribe conditions under which funds already appropriated may be used in acquiring all of any portion of such property.

Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Judicial, Transportation

Chapter 547

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 1006-c, authorizing the State Hospital Board to enter into reciprocal arrangements with other States for the transfer and care of patients.

Healthcare, Amendments

Chapter 548

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1014-a, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to private funds of patients in State hospitals and colonies and the use and investment of such funds.

Healthcare

Chapter 549

An ACT to authorize the State Board of Education in its discretion, to sponsor and supervise certain educational practices and procedures in Hanover County; to appropriate funds to carry out the purposes of this act, and to repeal Chapter 19, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1945, approved March 29, 1945, relating to like matters.

Education, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 550

An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 35-b and 36 and to repeal Section 35-aa of Chapter 342 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, as heretofore amended by Chapter 196 of the Acts of 1946; said chapters of said acts and amendments thereto being known and designated as the “Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia,” said Sections as amended relating to fees for registration, licenses of motor vehicles, reduction of fees after certain periods, gross receipts taxes upon certain motor vehicle carriers, registration of certain common and contract carriers of property and fees therefor.

Transportation, Taxation, Business

Chapter 551

An ACT to amend and reenact Section 70, as amended, of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the taxation of certain money, so as to provide that the taxes on net incomes shall be in lieu of a specific tax on such money.

Taxation

Chapter 552

An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1949, and the thirtieth day of June, 1950.

Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Salaries

Chapter 553

Joint Resolution to Amend Section 51 of the Constitution of Virginia

Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 554

Proposing amendments to Section 98 of the Constitution

Amendments, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 555

Proposing Amendments to Section 133 of the Constitution of Virginia

Amendments, Education

Chapter 556

Ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the terms of office of the President.

Amendments, Civil Rights, Charity, Education, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Labor, Voting, Public expenditures, Utilities, Legislative Amendments, Pensions, Transportation, Public spaces