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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77883</law_id><section_number>65.2-704</section_number><catch_line>Hearing; award or opinion by Commission</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3405</reference><reference>65.2-601.1</reference><reference>65.2-705</reference><reference>65.2-706</reference><reference>65.2-714</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="65.2">Workers' Compensation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Procedure in Connection With Awards</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> or any of its members or deputies shall hear the parties at <span class="dictionary">issue</span>, their representatives, and witnesses; shall decide the <span class="dictionary">issues</span> in a summary manner; and shall make an <span class="dictionary">award</span> or <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> carrying out the decision. <a id="paragraph-279283" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/65.2-704/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any member of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> who hears the parties at <span class="dictionary">issue</span> and makes an <span class="dictionary">award</span> under the provisions of subsection A shall not participate in a rehearing and review of such <span class="dictionary">award</span> provided under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Review of award; rehearing" href="/65.2-705/">65.2-705</a>. <a id="paragraph-279284" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/65.2-704/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> <span class="dictionary">Hearings</span> convened by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall be public proceedings and, upon proper request to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, may, in the discretion of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, be video recorded for public broadcast at the expense of the requesting <span class="dictionary">party</span>, subject only to the same limitations and conditions as apply to <span class="dictionary">court</span> proceedings in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-279285" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/65.2-704/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 65-92; 1954, c. 370; 1962, c. 340; 1968, c. 660, &#xA7; 65.1-96; 1980, c. 600; 1989, c. 318; 1991, c. 355; 1997, c. 225; 2003, cc. 664, 671; 2010, cc. 160, 564; 2012, c. 588.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
