Evening star., 1938-06-21
19ONEW STATUTES
ARE EFFECTIVE IN
VIRGINIA TODAY
Higher Automobile Speed
Limits Permitted on
Highways.
LOSS LEADER SALES
BANNED UNDER LAW
Women's Working Hours Reduced
to Nine and Wage Garnishment
Exemption Is Increased.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, June 2l.-Changes
in the laws pertaining to automobile
speed limits. to the cost of school
books. to the garnishment Of wages
and to the hours women may work
will be effective today.
Passed by the last Assembly and
signed by the Governor were 448 bills,
100 Of which made technical changes
in the Virginia code and 80 Of which
were local" measures. The great ma
jority of them went into force last
midnight. A few already are in effect
and few others become operative
July l. The billboard regulation bill
does not become law until next Janu-
ary l.
The new speed law limits passenger
automobiles to SIS miles an hour, pas
Senger buses to SO, trucks to As and
school buses carrying children to IS.
Flags and flares are to be set out by
drivers Of trucks and buses disabled
on the highway
Textbook Law Effective.
Another law provides that local
school boards supply pupils with text
books at wholesale cost plus per cent
for handling. Still another specifies
a minimum average teachers salary Of
$500 from State funds.
Stores will be prohibited from SELL
ing loss leaders" or items of mer-
chandise at very small, or no profit,
in order to attract shoppers to other
merchandise. A measure forbids sales
at less than cost plus a per cent
mark-up.
The women's hours law will reduce
the daily number Of hours any woman
may work in a factory. restaurant.
laundry or other industrial unit from
the present 10 to 8. The weekly maxi
mum Of hours will be 49, Workers in
offices, in seasonal plants such as
canneries and tobacco redrying units
and in mercantile establishments" in
towns of less than 1000 population,
will be excepted from the law.
The working man will receive, under
another law, garnishment exception
of Is per cent Of his salary instead
| of so per cent. The minimum month
ly exemptions will be $50 and the
maximum SIS.
Another bill which was seen as
victory for organized labor made SIM
pie assault by a man in q picket line
a misdemeanor, as in every other
simple assault case.
Court Docket Consolidated
The consolidation of the Supreme
Courts docket into one to be kept at
Richmond by chief clerk, also be-
came law last night. together with
the reduction in the time allowed
for an appeal from six to four months.
The Supreme Court will meet here
today to elect the chief clerk who
will serve here and the two deputy
clerks who will be at Staunton and
Wytheville.
A measure to provide for local hous-
ing authorities to cooperate with the
Federal Government in slum-c clear
ance projects was adopted upon the
recommendation of Gov Price and
became effective last midnight.
The act setting up a Hampton
Roads sanitation district to handle
anti-pollution work there, must be
approved or rejected by the localities
involved in the November general
election. The bill carries an annual
State appropriation of $50,000.
Not to be forgotten by hotel men
will be the law specifying that the
bed sheets in their hostelries shall
be 80 inches before laundering and
80 inches afterward. Fishermen will
be allowed to lengthen their haul
seines from 500 to 800 yards, pro-
vided one end Is tied to stationary
object.