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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56605</law_id><section_number>63.2-220</section_number><catch_line>Board may administer oaths, conduct hearings and issue subpoenas</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>63.2-106</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions Relating to Social Services</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">State Social Services</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">State Board of Social Services</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> in the exercise and performance of its functions, duties and powers under the provisions of this title is authorized to hold and conduct <span class="dictionary">hearings</span>, <span class="dictionary">issue</span> <span class="dictionary">subpoenas</span> requiring the attendance of witnesses and the production of records, memoranda, papers and other documents, to administer <span class="dictionary">oaths</span> and to take <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> thereunder.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 63-27; 1968, c. 578, &#xA7; 63.1-27; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
