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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56284</law_id><section_number>64.2-1203</section_number><catch_line>Subpoena powers of commissioners of accounts, assistants, and deputies; 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="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Fiduciaries and Guardians</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="A">Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="12">Commissioners of Accounts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Commissioners of accounts, assistant commissioners of accounts, and deputy commissioners of accounts shall have the power to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> <span class="dictionary">subpoenas</span> to require any person to appear before them and to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> <span class="dictionary">subpoenas</span> duces tecum to require the production of any documents or papers before them. Commissioners of accounts, assistants, and deputies shall not have the power to punish any person for contempt for failure to appear or to produce documents or papers, but may certify the <span class="dictionary">fact</span> of such nonappearance or failure to produce to the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>, which may impose penalties for <span class="dictionary">civil contempt</span> as if the <span class="dictionary">court</span> had issued the <span class="dictionary">subpoena</span>. Commissioners of accounts, assistants, and deputies may certify to the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> the <span class="dictionary">fact</span> of a <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span>&#x2019;s failure to inform the clerk or commissioners of his nonresident status and new address pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Information to be provided to clerk by fiduciary" href="/64.2-1409/">64.2-1409</a>. The <span class="dictionary">court</span>, upon a <span class="dictionary">finding</span> of a violation of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Information to be provided to clerk by fiduciary" href="/64.2-1409/">64.2-1409</a>, may impose a $50 civil <span class="dictionary">penalty</span>. Such penalties shall be paid to the state treasurer for deposit into the general fund.</p></section></text><history>1974, c. 126, &#xA7; 26-8.1; 1997, c. 842; 2005, c. 644. 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
