1950

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Chapter 1

AN ACT to direct the Virginia Code Commission to include the Rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Appeals on October 18, 1949, in the 1950 pocket supplement to the Code of 1950 and to provide that such rules shall supersede statutory provisions in conflict therewith.

Judicial

Chapter 2

An Act to authorize the Keeper of the Rolls of the State to correct typographical errors.

Legislative Amendments

Chapter 3

AN ACT to validate all proceedings in the creation of any sanitary district in the State and all proceedings in connection with bond issues of such sanitary districts, and to make the bonds binding, legal, valid, and enforceable obligations of the sanitary district issuing the same.

Public officers, Bonds, Utilities

Chapter 4

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 7 of Chapter 130 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 9, 1942, known as the Elizabeth River Tunnel Revenue Bond Act, the section relating to powers of the Elizabeth River Tunnel Commission, so as to provide the procedure for the exercise of the power of eminent domain,

Amendments, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 5

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 63-204.14 of the Code of 1950 relating to the acquisition and operation of certain business enterprises for the benefit of the blind so as to provide certain exceptions.

Business, Employment and labor, Charity, Civil Rights

Chapter 6

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 30-22.1 requiring the Secretary of the Commonwealth to furnish certain information as to legislative counsel to the General Assembly.

Legislative Amendments

Chapter 7

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia of 1950 by adding a section numbered 30-14.2 to provide for the reenrollment of bills which have been amended in accordance with the recommendation of the Governor.

Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 8

AN ACT to provide a trial board for members of fire departments of certain counties.

Fire fighters, Employment and labor, Judicial

Chapter 9

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-241 of the Code of 1950

Amendments, Business, Public officers, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 10

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-605 of the Code of 1950 relating to bonds of counties.

Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 11

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-778 of the Code of 1950 relating to general reassessments of real estate in certain counties.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 12

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 190 of the Acts of 1948, relating to the shooting of fish in certain waters to remove from its provisions the South fork of Holston River.

Fishing, Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 13

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 13, as amended, of an act entitled ‘‘An Act to incorporate the town of Windsor, in the county of Isle of Wight’

Municipal charters, Budget, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces, Law Enforcement, Vagrancy

Chapter 14

AN ACT to provide for State aid to counties and cities in the construction of public school buildings; to appropriate funds therefor; and to provide the terms and conditions for the expenditure of the funds appropriated.

Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 15

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 3-82, 3-83, 3-89, 3-95, and 3-116, of the Code of Virginia of 1950, concerning the registration of commercial fertilizers, and providing a new method for paying inspection fees.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 16

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 18-59.1 of the Code of 1950, relating to trials for unlawful carnal knowledge of female children who are of bad repute or lewd.

Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Judicial

Chapter 17

AN ACT to amend and reenact 8 8-11 of the Code of 1950 relating to limitation of enforcement of deeds of trust, mortgages and liens to secure payment of unpaid purchase money.

Amendments, Debt, Property

Chapter 18

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 1-13 of the Code of 1950 relating to rules of construction by reenacting it in 35 sections as follows: 1-13 through 1-13.34 so as to make certain verbal changes and to add a rule of construction.

Amendments, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers

Chapter 19

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-116 of the Code of 1950 relating to costs charged for certain services.

Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Civil Rights, Public expenditures

Chapter 20

AN ACT to authorize the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of swimming pools in certain counties; to prescribe the procedure for initiating any such project; to provide for the issuance of bonds therefor; and to confer certain powers and duties upon the governing bodies of such counties.

Public expenditures, Public spaces, Bonds, Recreation

Chapter 21

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 15-94.1 relating to the residences of county officers in towns which become cities.

Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 22

AN ACT to authorize the Governor to declare an emergency when there is threatened or exists a substantial interruption of the production of coal, appoint a fuel commission with the power to exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire, for temporary use and operation by said commission, certain coal mines, facilities and equipment used in operating the same, under circumstances when the owners or operators are unable or unwilling to operate same, payment of compensation to owner or operator when property is temporarily taken, restoration of property to owner or operator and provision for appeal to court by owner or operator; to provide punishment for violations and to declare an emergency.

Utilities

Chapter 23

An Act to amend and reenact § 63-367 of the Code of 1950 pertaining to the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, to change the name of the school to the Janie Porter Barrett School for Girls.

Education, Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Equality before the law

Chapter 24

AN ACT to authorize the Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute to convey certain property in the city of Radford in connection with the improvement of Radford College, Woman’s Division.

Education, Property, Religious Institutions, Municipal charters

Chapter 25

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-863 of the Code. of 1950 relating to lists to be filed by apartment house operators so as to permit certain counties to require like data from other lessors.

Property, Business, Taxation

Chapter 26

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-130 of the Code of 1950 relating to notice to be given in annexation proceedings; to provide that service shall be on each member of the board of supervisors instead of on the board as a body.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers

Chapter 27

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 18-131 of the Code of 1950 relating to disorderly conduct so as to permit counties to prohibit and punish the same.

Amendments, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement

Chapter 28

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 18-317 of the Code of 1950 relating to license taxes on dance halls so as to permit certain counties to increase the maximum tax applicable thereto.

Amusement, Taxation, Business

Chapter 29

AN ACT to name State Highway Number 626, in Patrick and Henry Counties, the Abram Penn Highway.

Transportation, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 30

An Act to amend Chapter 280, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 19382, approved March 24, 1932, being the Charter of the City of Alexandria, Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 41-a, to empower the City of Alexandria to impose, levy and collect a consumer or subscriber tax upon the amount paid for public utility services.

Taxation, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 31

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 37-97 of the Code of 1950, relating to arrest of escapees from any hospital for the insane or colony for the feeble-minded so as to make the issuance of a warrant of arrest mandatory.

Amendments, Healthcare, Jails

Chapter 32

AN ACT to authorize the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind at Staunton to grant and convey all right, title, and interest of the Board and of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind at Staunton in and to certain property in the city of Staunton to the city of Staunton for the construction and maintenance of a highway, road, or street and approaches thereto, known as the Staunton Distribution Road.

Education, Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 33

AN ACT to amend Chapter 18 of the Acts of the Assembly of 1946, approved February 18, 1946, which provided a new charter for the town of Wytheville, by adding two sections numbered 2-a and 2-b, providing for the fixing of bail, issuance of certain process and approval of sureties by the mayor and other designated persons.

Judicial, Bonds, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 34

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 5 of Title 59, §§ 59-61 through 59-70 of the Code of 1950 relating to paint and paint components; to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a chapter numbered 5, including sections numbered 59-61.1 through 59-61.13 to Title 59, to define and regulate the manufacture, sale, transportation, distribution and use of paint, paint oil, and turpentine, and to prescribe the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration in connection therewith, and to provide penalties for violations.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 35

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding in Chap 6 of Title 42 a new Article numbered 6 containing two sections numbered 42-66 and 42-67, relating to permits to erect historical markers and penalties for violations; and to repeal Chap 10 of Title 10 of the Code of 1950, containing §§ 10-133 and 10-134, relating to the same matters.

Amendments, Monuments and memorials, Public officers

Chapter 36

AN ACT to provide for a special police force in certain counties; to prescribe the manner of their appointment and removal; to provide for their compensation; and to define their powers and duties.

Law Enforcement, Public officers, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 37

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 39-4 of the Code of 1950, relating to jurisdiction of justices of the peace, so as to enlarge the powers of justices of the peace on county property within the corporate limits of certain cities under certain conditions.

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 38

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 46-259.1, authorizing certain counties to provide for the installation of parking meters on designated State highways, streets and roads therein, and to provide for penalties for violations of regulations issued hereunder.

Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 39

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 17-7 of the Code of 1950, relating to the designation, jurisdiction, duties, powers and expenses of judges sitting for other judges, so as to provide that the expenses of such judges shall be paid by the State.

Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 40

AN ACT to name a portion of a certain State highway and to impose duties on the State Department of Highways.

Transportation

Chapter 41

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-306 of the Code of 1950, relating to muffler cutouts and similar devices, so as to prohibit the sale and use or offering for sale thereof.

Amendments, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 42

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 46-279.1, relating to dimming of headlights on parked vehicles under certain conditions.

Transportation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 43

AN ACT to amend Sections 56-232 and 56-234 of the Code of Virginia of 1950 so as to provide for regulation of certain contracts between public utilities.

Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 44

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-765 of the Code of 1950, relating to the publication of a list of licensees and other information by the Virginia Real Estate Commission.

Business

Chapter 45

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-1104 of the Code of 1950 relating to the conduct of proceedings to subject lands to tax liens, to make it discretionary with the court as to whom he will appoint a special commissioner to sell and make the deeds, in case a sale is necessary.

Taxation, Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 46

AN ACT to amend and reenact §8§ 10-76, 10-79, 10-80 and 10-83 of the Code of 1950, relating to leaving trees unout for seeding purposes, penalties for violations, effectiveness of the article in counties, and exclusions from the provisions thereof.

Agriculture, Amendments, Property

Chapter 47

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 58-897.1, to provide for boards of equalization of real estate assessments in certain counties, to prescribe the number of board members, their terms of office and qualifications, and their manner of selection; and to repeal Chapter 237 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved March 14, 1942, as amended, relating to assessments of real estate in certain counties.

Amendments, Property, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 48

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 6-543.1 of the Code of 1950 by revising § 6-548.1 and adding two sections numbered 6-548.2 and 6-548.3, relating to the collection, payment and dishonor of demand items by banks and the revocation of credit for, and payment of, such items.

Business, Debt

Chapter 49

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-12 of the Code of 1950 to provide that property of the Virginia Association of Workers for the Blind, Inc., shall be exempt from taxation, State and local, including inheritance taxes.

Taxation, Charity, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Education, Religious Institutions, Reformatories, Civil Rights

Chapter 50

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to grant to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation certain easements of right of way on, over and across certain property known as “Hawfield” owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia in Orange

Utilities, Property, Transportation

Chapter 51

AN ACT to transfer the jurisdiction and control of certain parcels of land through and along Catawba Sanatorium, in Roanoke County, from the State Board of Health to the State Highway Commission, and to authorize the latter agency to use the said parcels of land as a part of State Highway Route No. 311.

Public officers, Transportation, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 52

AN ACT to transfer the jurisdiction and control of certain parcels of land through and along Blue Ridge Sanatorium, in Albemarle County, from the State Board of Health to the State Highway Commission, and to authorize the latter agency to use said parcels of land as a part of State Highway Route Number 20.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Healthcare

Chapter 53

AN ACT to prohibit commingling of burley tobacco; to define methods of sales on loosefloors; to prohibit the dissemination of false information; to designate the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to enforce this law; to authorize the promulgation of rules and regulations; and to provide penalties for the violations of this law or valid rules and regulations promulgated hereunder.

Agriculture

Chapter 54

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 29-194.1, authorizing governing bodies of counties to construct and maintain pounds and the destruction or other disposition of stray dogs under certain conditions.

Public spaces

Chapter 55

AN ACT to amend § 8-794 of the Code of 1950, relating to appeal from judgment of a trial justice.

Judicial, Amendments, Property

Chapter 56

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-76 of the Code of 1950, relating to publication of notices, so as to provide for the dispensing with the publication in cases in which the person is legally served with process.

Judicial, Divorce, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 57

AN ACT to establish the Judicial Conference of Virginia, to define its membership, and to provide for the duties and payment of the expenses of its members.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 58

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-888 of the Code of 1950, relating to liens on real estate of decree for alimony, to extend the provisions to maintenance, support and education of infant children of parties to a divorce

Divorce, Custody of children, Children -- Institutional care, Amendments

Chapter 59

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-87 of the Code of 1950, relating to expenses of sheriffs and sergeants, so as to include therein maintenance of certain police radio qT 308 1

Law Enforcement, Budget

Chapter 60

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-289 of the Code of 1950, so as to fix a new maximum salary for the clerk of the board of Accomack County.

Salaries

Chapter 61

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-104 of the Code of 1950 relating to orders of publication against nonresident defendant, to provide that publication may be had in case of a suit for annulment of marriage.

Divorce, Marriage, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 62

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia 1950 by adding five new sections numbered 54-280.1 to 54-280-5, both inclusive, providing temporary licenses for certain chiropractors and naturopaths, creating a Special Board to give examinations on certain subjects to holders of temporary licenses, and prescribing how such chiropractors and naturopaths may obtain permanent licenses.

Healthcare, Employment and labor, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 63

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 54-824 and 54-825 of the Code of Virginia 1950, relating to the use of injunctive pro-ceedings in cases of unlawful practice of medicine, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy or chiropody, and the suspension or revocation of licenses because of such unlawful practice.

Healthcare, Judicial

Chapter 64

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-266.8 of the Code of 1950, relating to license taxes which may be imposed by certain counties so as to extend the application thereof.

Amendments, Business, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 65

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 21-8 and 21-6 of the Code of 1950 relating to definitions and the State Soil Conservation Committee, respectively, so as to clarify the term, “land occupier’ and to provide for the appointment of 3 farmer members to the State Soil Conservation Committee.

Agriculture

Chapter 66

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-88 of the Code of 1950, relating to venue, so as to provide therefor in cases involving certain policies of insurance.

Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 67

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-57 of the Code of 1950 relating to compensation and mileage of members of governing bodies of certain counties.

Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 68

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-371.2 of the Code of 1950 authorizing certain counties to require a license of professional bondsmen so as to extend the application thereof.

Bonds, Judicial, Business

Chapter 69

An ACT to amend and reenact § 46-216 of the Code of 1950 relating to speed limits, so as to exempt all ambulances therefrom in emergencies.

Amendments, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 70

AN ACT to authorize the Board of Visitors of the Medical College of Virginia to convey with certain covenants a parcel of land, with improvements thereon to the Richmond Eye Hospital, Incorporated.

Healthcare, Property, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 71

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 32-181 of the Code of 1950, relating to fees charged certain associations offering contracts for medical or surgical services.

Healthcare, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 72

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 98 of the Acts of Assembly of 1940, approved February 27, 1940, relating to the creation of mosquito control districts, so as to make the same applicable to all counties and cities of the State.

Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 73

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 328 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 27, 1946, which provided a new charter for the town of Pearisburg, so as to prescribe the terms of office of the members of the council of such town.

Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 74

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2, as amended, of Chapter 396 of the Acts of Assembly of 1899-1900, approved February 17, 1900, which chapter provided a new charter for the town of Smithfield, the section relating to officers of the town and salary of the mayor, so as to remove limitations applicable to certain officers and to raise the maximum salary that may be paid the mayor; and to validate certain actions.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 75

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 51-47 and 51-48 of the Code of 1950 relating, respectively, to election not to be included in membership of Virginia Retirement System and employees of institutions of higher education.

Pensions, Education

Chapter 76

AN ACT to prohibit fishing on Sunday in certain waters in Tazewell County; and to prescribe penalties.

Fishing

Chapter 77

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 57-39.1 providing for securing improvement of abandoned cemeteries under certain circumstances.

Cemeteries

Chapter 78

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 126 of Chapter 84 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which provided a charter and special form of government for the City of Norfolk, said section relating to the iy es

Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 79

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 28-122.1 so as to permit the condemnation of certain oyster bottoms, oyster planting grounds, and rights in and leases to such bottoms and grounds; to provide that the right of eminent domain shall apply thereto, the circumstances thereof and the parties that may exercise the right so granted, and to prescribe the procedure in such cases.

Amendments, Property

Chapter 80

AN ACT to amend and reenact Section 6-232 of the Code of 1950 so as to authorize the appointment of receivers of credit unions in certain circumstances.

Amendments, Business, Public officers

Chapter 81

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-193 of the Code of 1950, relating to the release on summons of persons arrested for certain offenses.

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 82

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 17-119.1, as to provide for an additional circuit court judge in certain judicial circuits.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 83

AN ACT to prescribe the open season on bear and deer in certain counties or portions thereof; to prescribe penalties and to repeal inconsistent acts.

Hunting, Wildlife, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 84

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a new section numbered 8-701.1, to provide for attorneys fees to be allowed upon unrepresented shares in case of a partition suit.

Amendments, Lawyers, Judicial, Property

Chapter 85

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 4 of Chap 423 of the Acts of Assembly of 1936, approved March 80, 1986, so as to provide for an increase in the membership of the council of the town of Vinton.

Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 86

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-480 of the Code of 1950 relating to bonds of county treasurers so as to decrease the bond of certain treasurers.

Bonds, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 87

AN ACT to fix the season when squirrels may lawfully be taken in certain counties and to provide penalties for violations.

Hunting

Chapter 88

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 54-274 of the Code of 1950 to provide borderline reciprocity for physicians.

Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 89

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-51 of the Code of 1950 relating to salaries of trial justices.

Salaries, Judicial

Chapter 90

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 2-29 of the Code of 1950, relating to certain United States officers and employees holding certain State offices.

Amendments, Employment and labor, Judicial, Labor, Public officers, Education, Pensions

Chapter 91

An Act to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 22-258.1, providing for the exemption of certain children from compulsory education requirements.

Education, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 92

AN ACT to amend and reenact £85 51-62 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, concerning the prior service credit to be given employees of projects acquired by the Department of Highways as listed in Section 88-228 of the Code of Virginia, 1950.

Amendments, Employment and labor, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 93

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 60 of Chapter 84 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved February 7, 1918, which provided a charter and special form of government for the City of Norfolk, said section relating to the Division of Police.

Law Enforcement

Chapter 94

AN ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Orange, in the county of Orange; and to repeal the existing charter of the town, and certain other acts inconsistent with this act.

Municipal charters, Taxation, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 95

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-886 of the Code of 1950 relating to bonds of county officers, so as to set the bond required of the director of finance.

Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 96

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 15-806.1, relating to election of governing bodies of certain counties under optional form of county government.