                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTAIN CORPORATIONS; PRO SE REPRESENTATION (§ 16.1-81.1)

When the amount in controversy in any action at law in a general district court
does not exceed the sum of $2,500, exclusive of interest, attorney fees
contracted for in the instrument, and costs, a corporate plaintiff or defendant,
the stock of which is held by no more than five persons and is not publicly
offered or planned to be publicly offered at the time of the litigation, may be
represented by an officer of that corporation who shall have all the rights and
privileges given an individual to represent, plead, and try a case without an
attorney, provided that such officer has the unanimous consent of all the
shareholders to do so.

HISTORY: 2009, c. 666.