1950

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Chapter 201

AN ACT to provide a new charter for the Town of Parksley, Accomack County, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Parksley, including Chapter 362 of the Acts of Assembly of 1916, approved March 20, 1916, as amended.

Municipal charters, Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Property, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor, Amusement, Education, Law Enforcement, Jails, Divorce, Civil Rights, Recreation, Judicial, Death and burial, Bonds, Vagrancy, Utilities, Amendments

Chapter 202

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

Hunting

Chapter 203

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-209 of the Code of 1950, relating to disposition of dog fund so as to make certain changes applicable to certain counties.

Amendments

Chapter 204

AN ACT to authorize the city of Radford to lease certain property and enter into contractual relations in regard thereto; to prescribe the uses to which such property so leased may be put; and to provide for the disposition of such property after the termination of the lease.

Business, Public spaces

Chapter 205

AN ACT to amend Chapter 168 of the Acts of Assembly of 1874-75, approved March 11, 1875, as amended, which provided a charter for the city of Petersburg, by adding a section numbered 2-c in Chapter IV relating to fixing salaries of certain officers of the city.

Budget, Public officers, Salaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 206

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 54-165 and 54-181 of the Code of 1950, relating to and regulating the practice of dentistry.

Business, Healthcare

Chapter 207

An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 3-630.1, providing an optional method for the payment of certain inspection fees; to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to permit persons to use such methods; to prescribe the procedure therefor; to provide for revocation of such permission; and to impose certain penalties for violations.

Agriculture, Amendments, Business, Taxation

Chapter 208

AN ACT to require a license to hunt certain wild animals in certain counties and to provide for collection and disposition of the license fees and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions of this act.

Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 209

AN ACT to authorize school boards of counties, cities or towns to permit the use of school property; and to permit the use thereof under certain conditions.

Education, Public spaces, Public officers

Chapter 210

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 53-140 of the Code of 1950 relating to designation of jails to provide for the designation by a trial justice instead of a justice of the peace.

Jails, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 211

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 26-6 of the Code of 1950 relating to entry of judgment or decree against a personal representative in certain cases, so as to enlarge the scope of the

Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 212

AN ACT to amend and re-enact § 58-584 of the Code of 1950 providing for the assessment of certain stocks and bonds and other evidences of debt held or owned by railway and canal companies and providing for certain exemptions therefrom so as to restore certain language of the original act of 1928 omitted from §58-534 of the Code of 7950.

Amendments, Bonds, Business, Transportation

Chapter 213

AN ACT to authorize the Department of Military Affairs, 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 together with additions thereto and improvements thereon, and to transfer certain personal property at that place to certain officials of certain camps; to prescribe how the proceeds of such sale or transfer shall be used.

Armed forces, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 214

An Act to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 2-291.1 to provide for the refinancing in whole or in part of certain obligations of State institutions.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 215

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 60-63 of the Code of 1950, relating to the rate of tax payable by employers upon wages.

Taxation, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 216

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 1 of chapter 508 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1948, approved April 1, 1948, which was continued in effect by § 24-119 of the Code of 1950, providing for the registration and reregistration of persons qualified to vote and the transfer of registrations of persons who have registered in lieu of such reregistrations in cities containing more than one hundred and ninety thousand population according to the last United States census, in relation to persons who are qualified to vote in elections held in such cities in the calendar year 1951.

Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 217

An Act to amend and reenact § 26 of Chapter 809 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved March 19, 1920, which provided a charter for the city of Bristol, the section relating to the city treasurer of the city; and to amend said act by adding a new section numbered 4-a, conferring power on the city of Bristol to require connection with the sewerage system and to impose and collect fees, rents and charges for water and sewer services.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Utilities, Property, Taxation

Chapter 218

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-19 of the Code of 1950, relating to issuance of obligations by certain State educational institutions, so as to designate the Treasury Board as agent thereunder.

Amendments, Bonds, Business, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 56-273 and 56-274 of the Code of 1950 relating to motor vehicle carriers.

Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 220

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 8-174, 8-178 and 8-182 of the Code of Virginia, which sections relate to the liability for and the exemptions from jury service and preparation of jury lists by the jury commissioners.

Judicial, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 221

AN ACT to provide for the submission of proposed amendments to § 188 of the Constitution of Virginia to the qualified voters for ratification or rejection, and to prescribe when and how such referendum shall be had, and the manner in which the results thereof shall be ascertained and certified, the returns canvassed, and the vote thereon proclaimed by the Governor.

Amendments, Education, Voting

Chapter 222

An Act to amend and reenact § 88-221 of the Code of 1950, relating to requirements to be contained tn certain contracts of insurance.

Amendments, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 223

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 88-208, 38-218, 38-258.26, 88-258 .88, and 88-557 of the Code of 1950, relating generally to insurance so as to correct certain errors contained in the Code of 1950, the sections relating to Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau, deviations, filings, policies, and rere

Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 224

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 24-118 of the Code of 1950 relating to registration of voters so as to extend the application thereof.

Voting

Chapter 225

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 28 of Chapter 875 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 28, 1946, which provided a new charter for the City of Radford, the section relating to civil and police justice; and to amend such Chapter by adding a section numbered 28-a providing for the appointment of a special justice of the peace and setting forth his powers, duties and compensation.

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Employment and labor, Civil Rights

Chapter 226

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 18-78 of the Code of 1950 relating to how dissolved corporations may obtain a new charter.

Business, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 227

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by amending and reenacting § 18-35 as two sections numbered § 18-85 and § 18-35.1; § 18-85 in its original relating to when and how an amendment may be obtained to a charter, and the new § 18-85.1 relating to when the new § 138-85.1 relating to how an amendment to a charter may be obtained.

Amendments, Business

Chapter 228

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-61, § 8-62 and § 8-65 of the Code of 1950, relating to filing of power of attorney for service upon cooperative nonprofit life benefit corporations and service of process under same and how process 1s otherwise served.

Business, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 229

AN ACT to amend and reenact S 11-17 of the Code of 1950 relating to advertising for bids

Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 230

AN ACT to vest in the governing bodies of certain counties additional powers and duties as to constructing, reconstructing, extending, altering, maintaining and repairing sewer systems, or sidewalks, and parts thereof; to authorize such governing bodies to levy certain taxes and assessments, and to provide for certain exemptions therefrom, for the construction, reconstruction, extension, alteration, maintenance and repair of sewer systems, or sidewalks, and parts thereof, to provide for the recordation and collection of the same and the handling and disposition of revenues derived therefrom; and for such purposes to vest in such governing bodies certain powers of eminent domain.

Public expenditures, Property, Transportation, Utilities

Chapter 231

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-205 of the Code of 1950, in relation to lists of dog license sales, so as to eliminate therefrom a provision for treasurers’ fees.

Public expenditures

Chapter 232

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 28-212 of the Code of 1950 in relation to the pursuit and arrest of law violators who cross the Maryland-Virginia line, so as to restore the original provision concerning its time of taking effect.

Law Enforcement, Fishing, Public officers

Chapter 233

An Act to amend and reenact § 10-21 of the Code of 1950 in relation to the acquisition of lands of scenic beauty by the Director of Conservation and Development, so as to correct an erroneous cross reference therein.

Amendments, Public spaces, Recreation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 234

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-167 of the Code of 1950, relating to elections for the consolidation of counties, § 15-268 in relation to elections for the change to a county executive or a county manager form of government, § 15-840 in relation to elections for the change from a county executive to a county manager form, or vice versa, § 15-860 in relation to elections for a change to a modified commission plan or county manager plan of government, and § 15-495 relating to elections to determine whether or not a joint county officer or officers shall be employed, so as to provide for an affirmative method of voting.

Voting

Chapter 235

An Act to amend the Code of 1950 by adding three sections numbered respectively 38-48.1, 33-49.1 and 88-49.2, so as to restore certain of the original provisions of § 11 of chapter 415 of the Acts of 1982, and of chapter 196 of the Acts of 1946, omitted from the Code, relating to the distribution of motor fuel tax funds to the counties of the State.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 236

AN ACT to amend and re-enact § 58-780 of the Code of 1950, in relation to the disposition of funds collected under the Motor Fuel Tax Act of Virginia, so as to provide for the distribution of motor fuel tax funds to counties withdrawn from the secondary system of State highways.

Transportation

Chapter 237

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 38-258.21 of the Code of 1930, relating to provisions governing the making of insurance rates.

Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 238

An Act to amend and reenact § 13-265 of the Code of 1950.

Agriculture, Business, Amendments

Chapter 239

An Act to amend and re-enact Section 38-65 of the Code of Virginia of 1950 relating to certain refunds and allowances by insurance companies, so as to correct an error appearing in the recent recodification.

Amendments, Business

Chapter 240

AN ACT to add a new section to the 1950 Code of Virginia, designated as § 8-140.1, to provide for the operation of a lime grinding plant in Bland County, Virginia, by the Director of the Department of Welfare and Institutions to employ convicts; to sell lime and by-products; and to retain the proceeds therefrom for the operation of the plant.

Labor, Agriculture, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 241

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19.22 of chapter 116 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1948, providing a new charter for the City of Richmond, concerning the holding of sessions of the municipal courts.

Judicial

Chapter 242

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 29-202 of the Code of 1950, relating to compensation for livestock and poultry killed by dogs so as to provide when such compensation may be paid

Agriculture, Property

Chapter 243

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-65 of the Code of 1950, relating to limitations on imposition of taxes and license fees imposed by cities, towns and certain counties.

Taxation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 244

AN ACT to create a “Virginia World War II Memorial Commission” and prescribe its powers and duties; to authorize the erection of a “Living Memorial” in recognition of the patriotic services of Virginians in World War II; to authorize the donation of a suitable site therefor; and to make appropriations to carry out the provisions hereof.

Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 245

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 58-943.1, providing for deposit of certain local funds in banking institutions without the State under certain circumstances.

Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 246

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 15-481 of the Code of 1950, relating to bonds of city treasurers so as to lower the minimum which may be prescribed.

Bonds, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 247

An Act to amend and re-enact § 29-129.1 of the Code of 1950, so as to provide a certain season for trapping muskrats.

Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife

Chapter 248

AN ACT to authorize and empower the governing body of certain counties to appoint an executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of such executive secretary; to prescribe the powers and duties of the governing body and certain other county officers in relation thereto.

Amendments, Business, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 249

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 11 and 31 of Chapter 289 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 27, 1934, so as to broaden the powers of the Council of the City of Staunton respecting real estate, and the board of health and department of public welfare, to restrict the requirement that ordinances be published, to empower the Council to levy certain taxes, and to make permissive a certain provision as to public ways.

Amendments, Budget, Business, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Debt, Education, Healthcare, Labor, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Public spaces, Recreation, Utilities, Vagrancy, Voting