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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71890</law_id><section_number>12.1-27</section_number><catch_line>Commonwealth to be complainant, etc.; parties entitled to process</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="12.1">State Corporation Commission</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Procedure Before the Commission and Appeals</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In all complaints, proceedings, contests, or controversies by or before the Commission instituted by the Commonwealth or by the Commission of its own <span class="dictionary">motion</span>, the Commonwealth shall be complainant, and the <span class="dictionary">party</span> against whom the complaint is preferred, or the proceeding instituted, shall be the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>. Any <span class="dictionary">party</span> complainant or <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> in any complaint, proceeding, contest, or controversy shall be entitled to process, to convene parties, compel the attendance of witnesses, or the production of books, papers, and documents in any proceeding or <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> before the Commission.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 12-52; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
