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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73571</law_id><section_number>2.2-1812</section_number><catch_line>Admissibility of reproductions of checks in evidence; compliance with subpoena</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="2.2">Administration of Government</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Organization of State Government</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="C">State Agencies Related to the General Operation of Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="18">Department of the Treasury</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A reproduction of any check or draft or an enlargement of such reproduction drawn by the State Treasurer, when satisfactorily identified, shall be <span class="dictionary">admissible</span> in <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence. The introduction of a reproduced check or draft or of an enlargement thereof shall not preclude admission of the original. Any such check or draft, reproduction or enlargement purporting to be <span class="dictionary">sealed</span>, <span class="dictionary">sealed</span> and signed, or signed alone by the State Treasurer or on his behalf by his designee, may be considered satisfactorily identified and admitted as <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>, without any proof of the seal or signature, or of the official character of the person whose name is signed to it. <a id="paragraph-264682" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/2.2-1812/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The State Treasurer or his designee, when served with any <span class="dictionary">summons</span>, subpoena, <span class="dictionary">subpoena duces tecum</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span>, directing him to produce any check or draft kept by or in the <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of any agency or institution of the Commonwealth, may comply by certifying a reproduction or enlargement in accordance with subsection A and mailing the reproduction or enlargement in a <span class="dictionary">sealed</span> envelope to the <span class="dictionary">clerk of court</span>. Upon good cause shown, any court may direct the Treasurer or his designee to appear personally, notwithstanding any other provision of this section. <a id="paragraph-264683" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/2.2-1812/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1979, c. 173, &#xA7; 2.1-190.1; 1994, c. 16; 2001, c. 844.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
