                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MAGISTRATES AND OTHER OFFICERS WHO MAY ADMINISTER OATHS AND TAKE AFFIDAVITS (§
49-4)

Any oath or affidavit required by law, which is not of such nature that it must
be made in court, may be administered by a magistrate, a notary, a commissioner
in chancery, a commissioner appointed by the Governor, a judge or clerk or
deputy clerk of a court, a commissioner or clerk or deputy clerk of the State
Corporation Commission, or clerks of governing bodies of local governments. In
case of a survey directed by a court in a cause therein pending, an oath or
affidavit may be administered by or before the surveyor directed to execute the
order of survey.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 274; 1932, p. 339; 1968, c. 639; 1970, c. 783; 1986, c.
255.