1956

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Chapter 201

An Act to amend and reenact § 4 and §§ 18 and 14, as amended, Chapter 288 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 1924, which provided a charter for the town of Salem, the section relating to powers of the town and town ordinances.

Amendments, Business, Children -- Institutional care, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Education, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Utilities, Public spaces, Transportation, Reformatories, Taxation, Voting, Charity, Public officers, Cemeteries

Chapter 202

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-984, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the recordation by the clerks of certain courts of certain lists of real estate returned delinquent, and clerk’s fees therefor.

Property, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 203

An Act to amend and reenact § 57-19, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to conveyances of land to benevolent and other associations, so as to include groups organized for community, recreational, improvement of farm life or operations and like purposes and not for profit.

Property, Charity, Recreation, Armed forces, Education

Chapter 204

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 18-225.1, making it a misdemeanor to peep or spy into the dwelling of another.

Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 205

An Act to amend and reenact § 2 of Chapter 202 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, which was added thereto by Chapter 685 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, relating to squirrel season in certain counties.

Hunting

Chapter 206

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adultery and fornication; incest.

Amendments, Marriage, Divorce, Custody of children, Death and burial

Chapter 207

An Act to amend and reenact § 62-106.2, as amended, relating to the Board of Commissioners, officers, agents and employees of the Virginia State Ports Authority.

Public officers, Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 208

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 19-72.2, to provide the cireumstances under which certain warrants of arrest may issue.

Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 209

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 6-848.1, relating to the charge of investigation fee by banks.

Business, Amendments

Chapter 210

An Act to amend and reenact § 56-877 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when ticket offices and waiting rooms of railroads shall be kept open.

Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 211

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 33-255.41 and 33-255.68 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain miscellaneous provisions concerning, respectively, the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike Authority, and the Old Dominion Turnpike Authority, so as to eliminate the requirement for these Authorities to make an annual report to the General Assembly.

Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Judicial, Property

Chapter 212

An Act to repeal §§ 15-27 through 15-37 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the creation of new counties.

Legislative Amendments, Boundaries

Chapter 213

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-280 of the Code of Virginia, relating to warning devices on school buses.

Education, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 214

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14-5.2 and 14-5.8 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulation of travel on state and local governmental business, and compensation for expenses in connection there t60

Budget, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 215

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-885.1 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding therein § 46-338.2, the amended and new sections relating to penalties for violations of §§ 46-384, 46-885 and 46-386; and to repeal § 46-888.1 of the Code of Virginia.

Transportation

Chapter 216

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 46-215.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to checking of speed of motor vehicles by radiomicro waves or other electrical devices, the evidential effect thereof, and conditions under which arrests are permitted.

Amendments, Law Enforcement, Transportation

Chapter 217

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 2-60, 14-128, as amended, 15-67, as amended, and 17-54 of the Code of Virginia, relating to duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, fees of clerks of court and the incorporation of towns and duties of clerks of court so as to require certain information concerning incorporated towns to be furnished to the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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

Chapter 218

An Act to amend and reenact § 15-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the general powers of boards of supervisors of counties so as to provide certain exceptions thereto.

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

Chapter 219

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-798, 58-794 and 58-795 of the Code of Virginia, relating to general reassessments of real estate so as to make said sections applicable to towns.

Taxation

Chapter 220

An Act to repeal Chapter 10 of Title 54 of the Code of Virginia, consisting of §§ 54-217 to 54-260, inclusive, and all amendments thereto, relating to embalmers and funeral directors and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 54 thereof a new chapter numbered 10.1, consisting of sections numbered 54-260.1 to 54-260.64, inclusive, to provide for the examination, regulation and licensing of funeral directors and embalmers; to define certain terms; to permit certain reciprocal agreements with other states; to create the Virginia Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers and prescribe the powers, duties, functions and compensation of said board; to prescribe the conditions under which apprentice funeral directors and embalmers may be trained; to regulate funeral service establishments; to provide for the granting, refusal, revocation or suspension of licenses; and to prescribe penalties for violation.

Amendments, Death and burial, Healthcare, Public officers, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 221

An Act to amend and reenact § 83-125 of the Code of Virginia, relating to livestock on the right of way of the State Highway Systems so as to provide penalties for violation.

Agriculture

Chapter 222

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-416.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to revocation of drivers’ licenses under certain circumstances.

Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 223

An Act to amend and reenact § 9-11 of the Code of Virginia, relating to approval and display of certain works of art.

Amendments, Public spaces, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 224

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-92 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appointment of bail commissioners for counties.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 225

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 54-496, 54-497 and 54-498 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sales by apothecaries, and professional use by physicians, dentists and veterinarians of narcotic drugs.

Healthcare

Chapter 226

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Title 81 thereof a new chapter immediately following Chapter 8, to be designated as Chapter 4 and containing seven sections numbered 81-19 through 81-25, relating to gifts of securities to minors.

Amendments, Children -- Institutional care, Property

Chapter 227

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 55-88, 55-90 as amended, and 55-92 of the Code of Virginia, relating respectively, to the reservation of title or lien upon agreements for conditional sales, the recordation of such agreements, and the satisfaction and release of such 10 eel

Business, Property, Debt

Chapter 228

An Act to amend and reenact § 2-286 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the furnishing to the Law Library of the University of Virginia, certain publications, so as to provide for furnishing such publications to the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary.

Amendments, Education, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 229

An Act to amend and reenact § 62-69 of the Code of Virginia, defining "waters of the State’ so as to include certain other waters.

Transportation, Boundaries

Chapter 230

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 6-55.1 to provide for vesting of joint bank deposits of husband and wife upon death of either spouse or divorce.

Amendments, Marriage, Divorce, Property

Chapter 231

An Act to amend and reenact § 64-147 of the Code of Virginia, relating to order in which debts of decedents are to be paid.

Inheritance and succession, Debt

Chapter 232

An Act to vest fee simple title to certain land in the city of Richmond in the Virginia Historical Society, successor by merger to the Confederate Memorial Association, by releasing and quitclaiming to the Virginia Historical Society a possibility of reverter in said land retained by the Commonwealth pursuant to Chapter 82 of the Acts of Assembly, 1910, approved March 2, 1910, and to authorize and direct the Governor to execute a deed for such purpose.

Confederate, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 233

An Act to authorize the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia to sell certain timber and to appropriate the proceeds from such sales.

Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 234

An Act to amend and reenact § 88.1-108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to deposits required of insurance companies.

Amendments, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 235

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-207, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to pay of election officials.

Amendments, Voting

Chapter 236

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-750 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the qualifications for licensing as real estate brokers and salesmen.

Business, Employment and labor, Noncitizens

Chapter 237

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-277, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to when it shall be unlawful to collect tolls for the use of roads, highways and bridges of the State.

Transportation, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 238

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14-56, as amended, and 14-57, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation of Boards of Supervisors and the members thereof in certain counties.

Budget, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 239

An Act to provide for general registrars in certain counties and their powers, duties and compensation.

Voting, Public officers

Chapter 240

An Act to amend Chapter 44 of the Acts of Assembly of 1982, approved March 26, 1982, which provided a charter for the town of Scottsville, by adding a section numbered 18-a, providing for appointment by the council of a justice of the peace for the town.

Amendments, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 241

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-418 of the Code of Virginia, exempting certain businesses and professions from a tax on capital so as to exempt certain other businesses.

Amendments, Agriculture, Business, Taxation

Chapter 242

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-266.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to business exempt from city and town licenses so as to exempt certain business.

Business, Agriculture

Chapter 243

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 65-51, 65-52, 65-62 and 65-68, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to workmen’s compensation generally and, respectively, to compensation for total incapacity, compensation for partial incapacity, compensation in case of death, and maximum compensation payable.

Employment and labor, Death and burial

Chapter 244

An Act to amend and reenact § 88-D of an act entitled “An Act to Provide a New Charter for the City of Lynchburg, Virginia’, approved March 21, 1928, as heretofore amended, to permit members of Council, during their respective terms of office, to act as commissioners of the “Lynchburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority”

Municipal charters

Chapter 245

An Act to provide for the employment of assistants to the Commonwealth’s Attorneys in certain counties, subject to the approval of the Compensation Board, and to provide for their compensation.

Employment and labor, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 246

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 15-18.1, relating to associations of several political subdivisions and to declare such associations to be instrumentalities thereof

Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 247

An Act to amend and reenact § 68-809, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to district homes for the care and maintenance of certain persons, their location; members of home board and their compensation and expenses.

Children -- Institutional care, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 248

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8, as amended, 4, 5, as amended, 6 and 7 of Chapter 125 of the Acts of Assembly of 1872-78, approved March 8, 1878, which incorporated the town of Louisa, in Louisa County, the amended sections relating to officers of the town and the powers of council, the duties and powers of the mayor, elections and the appointment, and duties and powers of the town sergeant and the town secretary.

Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation, Business

Chapter 249

An Act to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 125 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, approved March 8, 1954, pertaining to hunting bear in certain counties.

Hunting

Chapter 250

An Act to authorize the appointment of an Arbitration Board to determine a controversy between the State Hospital Board and the City of Staunton and to authorize a conveyance of land which is the subject of such controversy.

Public spaces, Transportation, Healthcare, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 251

An Act to amend Chapter $ of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, approved February 11, 1948, as amended, which provided a new charter for the city of Waynesboro, by adding § 5.1, relating to the acquisition of property for public purposes.

Property

Chapter 252

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-58, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation of members of the Board of Bar Examiners.

Amendments, Law Enforcement, Labor, Judicial

Chapter 253

An Act to amend and reenact 8§ 8, 5, 8 and 19 of Chapter 887 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948, approved March 1, 1948, which provided a new charter for the town of Pulaski, the amended sections relating, respectively, to the town boundaries, town powers, councilmen, and the town manager.

Boundaries, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Public spaces, Taxation, Healthcare, Education, Recreation, Business

Chapter 254

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered Section 28-92.1, to authorize and empower the Virginia Military Institute to receive and enjoy gifts, grants, devises and bequests.

Education, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 255

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-766, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain permits for repair, improvements or construction of certain buildings or structures.

Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 256

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-50 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees charged members of the Virginia State Bar.

Lawyers, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 257

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8.01 and 5.10 of Chapter 706 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952, approved April 8, 1952, which provided a charter for the city of Warwick, said sections relating, respectively, to election of councilmen and submission and adoption of the budget; and to further amend said chapter by adding sections numbered 2.04 to 2.04.4 relating to acquisition of property for public er eesl

Amendments, Budget, Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 258

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8, 4, 5 and 12, as amended, of Chapter 822 of the Acts of Assembly of 1899-1900, approved February 14, 1900, as amended, which incorporated the town of Stanley in Page County, the sections, respectively, relating to the government of the town, municipal officers generally, the election of the mayor and council, and the terms of the mayor.

Municipal charters

Chapter 259

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered relating to the amendment or correction of certificates or other records filed and preserved by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.

Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 260

An Act to amend and reenact § 82-858 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the issuance of birth certificates upon court order establishing date and place of birth.

Judicial, Healthcare

Chapter 261

An Act to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the town of Courtland in the county of Southampton”

Municipal charters, Business, Taxation

Chapter 262

An Act to amend and reenact § 3.01, §§ 8.05 and 8.11, as amended, § 8.14, § 4.02, as amended, § 8.05, §§ 9.08 and 9.06, as amended, § 9.09, and §§ 9.12, 9.19 and 10.01, as amended, of Chapter 586 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved April 7, 1950, being the charter of the city of Alexandria; to amend said chapter by adding thereto a section numbered 4.08; and to repeal §§ 8.08 and 9.07 of said chapter.

Amendments, Business, Civil Rights, Employment and labor, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 263

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2, 4, as amended, 12 and 18 of Chapter 428 of the Acts of Assembly of 1986, approved March 80, 1986, which provided a charter for the town of Vinton, the sections relating to powers of the town council, and enactment of ordinances and emergency measures.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Transportation, Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Death and burial, Labor, Public spaces, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 264

An Act to amend Chapter 393 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932, approved March 29, 1982, which provided a charter for the city of Williamsburg by adding sections numbered 84.1 through 84.6, providing for a Department of Finance and divisions thereof for the city, the director thereof, the powers and duties of the director, and to transfer certain duties of the treasurer to such department and director.

Budget, Business, Taxation, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 265

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 7 and 8, as amended, of Chapter 3 of Chapter 168 of the Acts of Assembly of 1874-5, approved March 11, 1875, which provided a charter for the city of Petersburg and to further amend Chapter 8 of such charter by adding thereto §§ 8(a), 9.1, 9.2, 9.8 and 9.4; and to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of Chapter 6 of said charter; and to further amend said charter by adding thereto a Chapter 4A containing §§ 1-9; and to repeal § 9, as amended, of Chapter 8 of said charter.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 266

An Act to amend and reenact § 18, as amended, of Chapter 440 of the Acts of Assembly of 1889-90, approved March 8, 1890, which provided a new charter for the town of Liberty, extended its limits, and changed the name to Bedford City, the section relating to certain powers of the town council.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Utilities, Charity, Prisons, Property, Public spaces, Fire fighters, Law Enforcement