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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71448</law_id><section_number>58.1-217</section_number><catch_line>Form of writs, processes and orders; how served</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-216</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Department of Taxation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All <span class="dictionary">writs</span>, processes and <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall run in the name of the Commonwealth, shall be signed by the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span>, and shall be directed to the sheriff or constable of the county or city wherein such <span class="dictionary">writ</span>, process or <span class="dictionary">order</span> is to be executed. All <span class="dictionary">writs</span>, notices, processes or <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> may be executed and returned in like manner and upon like persons or property as the processes, <span class="dictionary">writs</span>, notices or <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of record of this Commonwealth and when so served, executed and returned shall have the same legal effect. The officer serving or executing any <span class="dictionary">writ</span>, notice, process or <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall receive the same fees allowed by <span class="dictionary">law</span> for the like services to sheriffs of the counties and cities. Any officer who fails to execute and return any <span class="dictionary">writ</span>, process, notice or <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall be subject to the same penalties provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span> for the failure to execute and return the process of any <span class="dictionary">court</span>, which penalties, after due notice to the officer so failing, may be enforced by the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-37; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 155; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
