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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?031+ful+CHAP0657\">657<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?031+ful+CHAP0670\">670<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2005, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?051+ful+CHAP0888\">888<\/a>; in 2009, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?091+ful+CHAP0136\">136<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":173403,"object_type":"law","relational_id":65761,"identifier":"2.2-2002","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/20\/2.2-2002","url":"\/2.2-2002\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-2002\/","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/20\/2.2-2002","dublin_core":{"Title":"Department offices","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-2002","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Commissioner<\/span> shall maintain an office in the vicinity of the State Capitol in Richmond. He may maintain service offices in the Commonwealth in whatever locations he determines to be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. 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