                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWER TO EMPLOY COUNSEL FOR AND INDEMNIFY EMPLOYEES (§ 12.1-15.1)

The Commission shall have the power to retain counsel for and to indemnify its
employees and agents who were or are parties or are threatened to be made
parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding
whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative or investigative, by reason
of the fact that they are or were employees or agents of the Commission or are
or were serving at the request of the Commission as directors, officers,
employees or agents of another entity, against expenses, including
attorney&#8217;s fees, reasonably incurred by them in connection with such
action, suit or proceeding if the Commission or any court of record to whom the
matter shall be submitted shall find the employees or agents acting in good
faith and in a manner they reasonably believe to be in the best interest of the
duties assigned to them by law or the Commission.

HISTORY: 1976, c. 341.