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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70892</law_id><section_number>6.2-815</section_number><catch_line>Suspension of business during emergency</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="8">Banks</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Incorporation and Powers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every <span class="dictionary">bank</span> doing business in the Commonwealth is authorized temporarily to suspend its usual business during a period of actual or threatened enemy attack, civil insurrection or riot, affecting the community in which such institution is doing business or other emergency justifying temporary closing such as fire, flood, or hurricane.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-30; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-12; 1970, c. 15; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
