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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71555</law_id><section_number>6.2-1611</section_number><catch_line>Investigations; examinations</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="III">Other Regulated Providers of Financial Services</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="16">Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Brokers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may, as often as it deems necessary, investigate and examine the affairs, business, premises, and records of any <span class="dictionary">mortgage lender</span> or <span class="dictionary">mortgage broker</span> required to be licensed under this chapter insofar as they pertain to any business for which a license is required by this chapter. Examinations of such <span class="dictionary">mortgage lenders</span> shall be conducted at least once in each three-year period. In the course of such investigations and examinations, the owners, members, officers, directors, partners, and employees of such <span class="dictionary">mortgage lender</span> or <span class="dictionary">mortgage broker</span> being investigated or examined shall, upon demand of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> making such investigation or examination, afford full access to all premises, books, records and information which the <span class="dictionary">person</span> making such investigation or examination deems necessary. For the foregoing purposes, the <span class="dictionary">person</span> making such investigation or examination shall have authority to administer <span class="dictionary">oaths</span>, examine under <span class="dictionary">oath</span> all the aforementioned <span class="dictionary">persons</span>, and compel the production of papers and <span class="dictionary">objects</span> of all kinds.</p></section></text><history>1987, c. 596, &#xA7; 6.1-419; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
