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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79978</law_id><section_number>3.2-3218</section_number><catch_line>Penalties for failure to comply with subpoenas; compelling obedience</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="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Production and Sale of Agricultural Products</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="32">Milk Commission</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person failing to comply with any <span class="dictionary">subpoena</span> issued by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> or pursuant to its authority is guilty of a Class 2 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>, and each day during which such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate <span class="dictionary">offense</span>. In the event any person shall fail to comply with any regulation or <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, or obey any <span class="dictionary">subpoena</span> issued, or in the event of the refusal of any <span class="dictionary">witness</span> to testify to any matter concerning which he lawfully may be interrogated by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> or its representative, it shall be the duty of the <span class="dictionary">Circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">Court</span> where the principal offices of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> are located, upon application of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, to compel obedience by <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> proceedings for <span class="dictionary">contempt</span> as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a <span class="dictionary">subpoena</span> issued from the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, refusal to testify therein, or disobedience of an <span class="dictionary">order</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>. The proceedings herein authorized in the <span class="dictionary">Circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">Court</span> to compel obedience shall be in addition to the provisions of this section defining what shall constitute a <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span> and providing and prescribing the punishment therefor.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 3-372; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-451; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
