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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55626</law_id><section_number>2.2-521</section_number><catch_line>Procedure for issuance of subpoena duces tecum</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="B">Department of Law</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Department of Law</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="4">Division of Human Rights</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever the <span class="dictionary">Attorney General</span> has reasonable cause to believe that any person has engaged in or is engaging in any unlawful discriminatory practice, he may apply to the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> in which the respondent resides or is doing business for a <span class="dictionary">subpoena duces tecum</span> against any person refusing to produce such data and information. The <span class="dictionary">judge</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, upon good cause shown, may cause the subpoena to be issued. Any person failing to comply with such subpoena shall be subject to punishment for <span class="dictionary">contempt</span> by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> issuing the subpoena. For purposes of this section, &#x201C;person&#x201D; includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, legal representative, mutual company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, employee, employer, employment agency, labor organization, joint labor-management committee, or an agent thereof.</p></section></text><history>1987, c. 581, &#xA7; 2.1-721; 2000, c. 64; 2001, c. 844, &#xA7; 2.2-2635; 2012, cc. 803, 835.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
