                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS IN CERTAIN CASES; INVESTIGATIONS MAY BE
PRIVATE (§ 27-60)

The Department may petition an appropriate judicial officer to summons and
compel the attendance of witnesses to testify in relation to any matter which
is, by the provisions of this chapter, a subject of inquiry and investigation.
It may also administer oaths and affirmations to such witnesses, and false
swearing in any such matter shall be deemed perjury, and shall be punished as
such. It may in its discretion take or cause to be taken the testimony on oath
of all persons supposed to be cognizant of any facts or to have means of
knowledge in relation to the matters as to which any examination is, in this
chapter, required to be made, and shall cause the same to be reduced to writing.
Investigations in relation to such matters may, in the discretion of the
Department, be private, and persons other than those required to be present by
the provisions of this chapter may be excluded from that place where such
examination is held, and witnesses may be kept separate and apart from each
other, and not allowed to communicate with each other until they have been
examined.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 4189; 1977, c. 613.