                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BY WHOM AND UPON WHAT CERTIFICATE ALLOWANCES TO WITNESSES PAID (§ 17.1-613)

The sum to which a witness is entitled shall be paid out of the state treasury
in any case of attendance before either house or a committee of the General
Assembly and in any other case in which the attendance is for the Commonwealth
except when it is otherwise specially provided. In all other cases it shall be
paid by the party for whom the summons issued. The payment shall be on a
certificate of the person required by § 17.1-612 to make the entry or the clerk
of the court in whose minutes the entry is made. The certificate shall express
by letters and not by figures the separate amount to which the witness is
entitled for his attendance, traveling, and tolls which he may have to pay and
the aggregate thereof. No clerk or other person authorized to make such entry or
give such certificate shall become interested by purchase in any claim payable
out of the state treasury which by law he is authorized to certify.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 14-188; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-191; 1998, c. 872.