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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81331</law_id><section_number>6.2-1315</section_number><catch_line>Removal of director or officer; penalty for acting after removal</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="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="13">Credit Unions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Supervision and Regulation</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Whenever any director or officer of a <span class="dictionary">credit union</span> doing business in the Commonwealth violates any lawful <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> or knowingly continues to violate any <span class="dictionary">law</span> relating to <span class="dictionary">credit unions</span> or knowingly continues an unsafe or unsound practice in conducting the business of a <span class="dictionary">credit union</span>, after the director or officer, and the board of directors of the institution of which he is a director or officer, have been warned in writing by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> to discontinue such violation of <span class="dictionary">law</span> or such unsafe or unsound practice, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall certify the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall thereupon enter an <span class="dictionary">order</span> requiring such director or officer to appear before the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, within not less than 10 days, to show cause why he should not be removed from office and thereafter restrained from participating in any manner in the management of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span>. The <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall contain a <span class="dictionary">brief</span> statement of the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> certified to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. A copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be served upon the director or officer, and a copy thereof shall be sent by certified or registered mail to each director of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span> affected. <a id="paragraph-291478" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1315/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If, after granting the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> director or officer a reasonable opportunity to be heard, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> finds that he has knowingly continued to violate any <span class="dictionary">law</span> relating to the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span>, or has knowingly continued any unsafe or unsound practice in conducting the business of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span>, after he and the board of directors of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span> of which he is a director or officer have been warned in writing by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> to discontinue such violation of <span class="dictionary">law</span> or unsafe or unsound practice, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall enter an <span class="dictionary">order</span> removing the director or officer from office and restraining the director or officer from thereafter participating in any manner in the management of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span>. A copy of such <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be served upon the director or officer and upon the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span> of which he is a director or officer, whereupon the director or officer shall cease to be a director or officer of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span> and shall thereafter cease to participate in any manner in the management of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span>. <a id="paragraph-291479" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1315/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any director or officer removed and restrained under the provisions of this section who thereafter participates in any manner in the management of the <span class="dictionary">credit union</span>, except as a <span class="dictionary">member</span> thereof, is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-291480" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1315/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1976, c. 658, &#xA7; 6.1-223.1; 1990, c. 373, &#xA7; 6.1-225.9; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
