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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65941</law_id><section_number>36-115</section_number><catch_line>Subpoenas; witnesses; designation of subordinates</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="36">Housing</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Uniform Statewide Building Code</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">State Building Code Technical Review Board</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In any matter before it on <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> for <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> and determination, the <span class="dictionary">Review Board</span>, or its designated subordinates, may compel the attendance of all needed witnesses in like manner as a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>, save the <span class="dictionary">Review Board</span> shall not have the power of imprisonment. In taking <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>, the chairman or any member of the <span class="dictionary">Review Board</span>, or its designated subordinates, shall have the power to administer <span class="dictionary">oaths</span> to witnesses. Where a designated subordinate of the <span class="dictionary">Review Board</span> presides over <span class="dictionary">hearings</span> on <span class="dictionary">appeals</span>, such subordinate shall submit recommended <span class="dictionary">findings</span> and a decision to the <span class="dictionary">Review Board</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Formal hearings; litigated issues" href="/2.2-4020/">2.2-4020</a>.</p></section></text><history>1972, c. 829; 1977, c. 423; 1996, c. 620.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
