                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POLICE POWERS OF COMMISSIONER (§ 3.2-5614)

With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other acts dealing with
weights and measures that he is, or may be, empowered to enforce, the
Commissioner is hereby vested with police powers, and is authorized to arrest
any violator of the said acts and to seize for use as evidence, without formal
warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts or packages of
commodity, found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold in
violation of law. In the performance of his official duties, the Commissioner is
authorized to enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure
or premises, and to stop any person whatsoever if necessary to apprehend such
person and to require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he
may be in charge, to some place that the Commissioner may specify.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 3-708.17, 59-83; 1962, c. 298; 1966, c. 702, §
3.1-935; 2008, c. 860.