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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67515</law_id><section_number>12.1-39</section_number><catch_line>Appeals generally</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-1707</reference><reference>38.2-222</reference><reference>38.2-6507</reference><reference>59.1-92.18</reference><reference>6.2-1339</reference></referred_to_by><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>The Commonwealth, any <span class="dictionary">party in interest</span>, or any party aggrieved by any final <span class="dictionary">finding</span>, decision settling the substantive <span class="dictionary">law</span>, <span class="dictionary">order</span>, or <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the Commission shall have, of right, an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> to the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> irrespective of the amount involved; provided, however, that the <span class="dictionary">petition</span> for such <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> shall be filed with the Clerk of the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> within 120 days from the final <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">finding</span> of the State Corporation Commission; and provided further that an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> <span class="dictionary">bond</span> is filed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Security for appeal" href="/8.01-676.1/">8.01-676.1</a>.
		No other <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to review, <span class="dictionary">reverse</span>, correct, or annul any action of the Commission or to enjoin or restrain it in the performance of its official duties; provided, however, that the <span class="dictionary">writs</span> of mandamus and prohibition shall lie from the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> to the Commission.
		The Commission shall, whenever an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> is taken therefrom, file in the record of the case a statement of the reasons upon which the action appealed from was based.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 12-63; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1977, c. 624; 2017, c. 651.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
