                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS OF BOARD MEMBERS AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (§
4.1-609)

All members of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer shall be fingerprinted
before, and as a condition of, appointment. These fingerprints shall be
submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history
records search and to the Department of State Police for a Virginia criminal
history records search. The Department of State Police shall be reimbursed by
the Authority for the cost of investigations conducted pursuant to this section.
No person shall be appointed to the Board or appointed by the Board who (i) has
defrauded or attempted to defraud any federal, state, or local government or
governmental agency or authority by making or filing any report, document, or
tax return required by statute or regulation that is fraudulent or contains a
false representation of a material fact; (ii) has willfully deceived or
attempted to deceive any federal, state, or local government or governmental
agency or governmental authority by making or maintaining business records
required by statute or regulation that are false and fraudulent; or (iii) has
been convicted of (a) a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude or (b) a
violation of any law applicable to the manufacture, transportation, possession,
use, or sale of marijuana within the five years immediately preceding
appointment.

HISTORY: 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 550, 551.