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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74885</law_id><section_number>60.2-627</section_number><catch_line>Failure to obey subpoenas; orders of court; penalty</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="60.2">Unemployment Compensation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Benefits</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Claims Adjudication</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a <span class="dictionary">subpoena</span> issued to any person, any court of this Commonwealth within the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of which the inquiry is carried on or within the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of which such person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the Commission or its duly authorized representative, shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> to such person an order requiring such person to appear before an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> tribunal, a commissioner, the Commission, or its duly authorized representative, in order to produce <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> or to give <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> concerning the matter under investigation or in question. Any failure to obey such <span class="dictionary">court order</span> may be punished by the court as <span class="dictionary">contempt</span>. <a id="paragraph-269032" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-627/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any person subpoenaed by the Commission who, without just cause, fails or refuses to attend and testify or to answer to any lawful inquiry or to produce books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records, when it is within his power to do so, shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. <a id="paragraph-269033" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-627/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Each day any violation of such court-issued <span class="dictionary">subpoena</span>, <span class="dictionary">court order</span>, or Commission-issued <span class="dictionary">subpoena</span> continues shall be deemed to be a separate <span class="dictionary">offense</span>. <a id="paragraph-269034" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/60.2-627/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 60-37; 1968, c. 738, &#xA7; 60.1-42; 1986, c. 480; 2020, c. 1261.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
