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VA Code § 11-16.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 11 - Contracts|Chapter 3 - Gaming Contracts|§ 11-16.1. Exemption from the chapter

This chapter shall not apply to any bet, wager, or casino gaming permitted by Chapter 41 (§ 58.1-4100 et seq.) of Title 58.1 or to any contract, conduct, or transaction arising from conduct lawful thereunder.2020, cc. 1197, 1248.
VA Code § 11-16.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 11 - Contracts|Chapter 3 - Gaming Contracts|§ 11-16.2. Exemption; authorized sports betting

This chapter shall not apply to any sports betting or related activity that is lawful under Article 2 (§ 58.1-4030 et seq.) of Chapter 40 of Title 58.1.2020, cc. 1218, 1256, § 11-16.1.
VA Code § 11-17.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 11 - Contracts|Chapter 4 - Public Contracts in General|§ 11-17.1. Expired

Expired by the terms of Acts 1980, c. 95, cl. 2, on July 1, 1983.
VA Code § 11-23.6 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 11 - Contracts|Chapter 4.1 - Use of Domestic Steel in Public Works Projects|§ 11-23.6. Expired

Expired by the terms of Acts 1981, c. 379, cl. 2, on June 30, 1986.
VA Code § 12.1-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12.1-1. Definitions

As used in this title, the term "corporation" or "company" shall mean all corporations created by acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, or under the general incorporation laws of this Commonwealth, or doing business therein, and shall exclude all municipal corporations, other political subdivisions, and public institutions owned or controlled by the Commonwealth; and the term "the Commission" shall mean the State Corporation Commission.Code 1950, § 12-1; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12.1-2. State Corporation Commission

There shall be a permanent commission known as the State Corporation Commission which shall have the powers and duties prescribed by law and by Article IX of the Constitution of Virginia.1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12.1-3. Seal of the Commission

The Commission shall have and use a common seal, to consist of a circular die with the coat-of-arms of Virginia and the title "State Corporation Commission" stamped upon the face of the die, and shall have power to affix such seal to any paper, record, or document when necessary for the purpose of authentication, and such seal, when so affixed to any paper, record, or document emanating from the Commission or its clerk's office, shall have the same force and effect for authentication as the seal of any court of record in this Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 12-3; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12.1-4. Annual report of the Commission

Each year, the Commission shall make an annual report to the Governor as of December 31 of the preceding year. Copies of this report may be sold by the Clerk of the Commission at a price sufficient to cover costs of printing and binding. The Commission may from time to time include in such annual reports recommendations for new or additional legislation pertaining to matters within its jurisdiction.Code 1950, § 12-4; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1985, c. 34.
VA Code § 12.1-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 12.1-5. Offices; notice, writ or process; where public sessions may be held

The offices of the Commission shall be located, and its public sessions held, in the City of Richmond, and all notices, writs and processes issued by the Commission shall be made returnable to, and command the corporation or person against whom directed to appear before the Commission and answer on a certain day to be named therein; but the Commission may, in its discretion, if public necessity or the convenience of the parties require, hold public sessions elsewhere in the Commonwealth, and may order any notice, writ, or process to be made returnable to the place of any such session; and for the holding of any such session the Commission may occupy the courtroom of the courthouse of the city or county wherein such session may be held, if such courtroom shall not at the time be in use for the sessions of the court of any such city or county.Code 1950, § 12-5; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 2 - Members of the Commission|§ 12.1-6. Election or appointment of members; terms

The Commission shall consist of three members. Members of the Commission shall be elected by the joint vote of the two houses of the General Assembly for regular staggered terms of six years. At the regular session of the General Assembly convened in each even-numbered year, one commissioner shall be elected for a regular six-year term.Whenever a vacancy in the Commission shall occur or exist when the General Assembly is in session, the General Assembly shall elect a successor for such unexpired term. If the General Assembly is not in session, the Governor shall forthwith appoint pro tempore a qualified person to fill the vacancy for a term ending thirty days after the commencement of the next regular session of the General Assembly, and the General Assembly shall elect a successor for such unexpired term.The Governor shall commission each of the members of the Commission who shall file his commission in the office of the clerk of the Commission.Code 1950, §§ 12-9, 12-12; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 2006, c. 838.
VA Code § 12.1-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 2 - Members of the Commission|§ 12.1-7. Chairman

The Commission shall annually elect one of its members chairman for a one-year term commencing on February 1 of each year.1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 2 - Members of the Commission|§ 12.1-8. Quorum of members

A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the exercise of judicial, legislative, and discretionary functions of the Commission, whether there be a vacancy in the Commission or not, but a quorum shall not be necessary for the exercise of its administrative functions.1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 2 - Members of the Commission|§ 12.1-9. Eligibility and qualifications of members

No person shall be eligible to serve as a member of the Commission unless at the time of his election or appointment he is a qualified voter under the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. At least one member of the Commission shall have the qualifications prescribed for judges of courts of record.Code 1950, § 12-10; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 2 - Members of the Commission|§ 12.1-10. Prohibited conflicts of interests

A. As used in this section, "member of the immediate family of a member, subordinate, or employee of the Commission" means (i) a spouse of a member, subordinate, or employee of the Commission or (ii) any other person who resides in the same household as a member, subordinate, or employee of the Commission and (a) who is a dependent of a member, subordinate, or employee of the Commission or (b) of whom a member, subordinate, or employee of the Commission is a dependent.B. The members of the Commission and its subordinates and employees shall not, directly or indirectly, own any securities of, have any pecuniary interest in, or hold any position with any entity whose rates, services, or financial ability to meet its obligations to the public are subject to supervision or regulation by the Commission; nor shall any such person having a license or certificate to practice law engage in the private practice of law except by approval of the Commission on a pro bono publico basis. If a member of the immediate family of a member, subordinate, or employee of the Commission is employed by any entity whose rates, services, or financial ability to meet its obligations to the public is subject to supervision or regulation by the Commission, the member, subordinate, or employee of the Commission shall recuse himself from and not participate in any regulatory matter at the Commission in which such entity is a party.C. This section shall not prevent any such person from being a policyholder in any insurance company; from being a depositor in any bank, savings institution, or similar institution; or from being a holder of a security issued by a unit investment trust or management company as those terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 and in accordance with such rules as the Commission may adopt.D. Any member of the Commission who violates this section may be censured or removed from office in the manner provided by Article VI, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia. Any subordinate or employee of the Commission who violates this section may be removed from office by the Commission.Code 1950, § 12-13; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1994, c. 181; 1996, c. 77; 2011, c. 163; 2013, c. 94.
VA Code § 12.1-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 2 - Members of the Commission|§ 12.1-11. Oath; failure to qualify

Any person elected or appointed to be a member of the Commission shall qualify by taking and subscribing the oath required by Article II, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia. If any member shall fail to so qualify within thirty days after the commencement of his term of office, such office shall become vacant.Code 1950, §§ 12-11, 12-12; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-11.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 2 - Members of the Commission|§ 12.1-11.1. Temporary recall of members

A. The Commission may call upon and authorize any member who is retired under the Judicial Retirement System (§ 51.1-300 et seq.) to perform, for a period not to exceed ninety days at any one time, such duties for the Commission that the Commission deems in the public interest for the expeditious disposition of its business.B. It shall be the obligation of any retired member who is recalled to temporary service under this section and who has not attained age seventy to accept the recall and perform the duties assigned. It shall be within the discretion of any member who has attained age seventy to accept such recall.C. Any member recalled to duty under this section shall have all the powers, duties, and privileges attendant on the position he is recalled to serve.1990, c. 832.
VA Code § 12.1-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of the Commission|§ 12.1-12. Powers and duties generally

A. Subject to such requirements as may be prescribed by law, the Commission shall be the department of government through which shall be issued all charters, and amendments or extensions thereof, of domestic corporations and all licenses of foreign corporations to do business in this Commonwealth. Except as may be otherwise prescribed by law, the Commission shall be charged with the duty of administering the laws made for the regulation and control of corporations doing business in this Commonwealth. Subject to such criteria and other requirements as may be prescribed by law, the Commission shall have the power and be charged with the duty of regulating the rates, charges, services, and facilities of all public service companies as defined in § 56-1. The Commission shall in proceedings before it insure that the interests of the consumers of the Commonwealth are represented, unless the General Assembly otherwise provides for representation of such interests. The Commission may appoint such clerical force as may be deemed necessary to the efficiency of its office, but the aggregate amount paid such clerks shall not exceed the sum provided by law; and it may expend for the contingent expenses of its office such sums as may be provided by law. The Commission shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by law.B. 1. Upon request, the Commission may require any business (i) to disclose whether it is an out-of-state business as defined in subsection A of § 44-146.28:2 and (ii) if the business states that it is such, to provide a statement that includes the business's name, state of domicile, principal business address, federal tax identification number, date of entry into the Commonwealth, local contact information, and contact information for any affiliate of such business that has obtained from the Commission a certificate of authority or registration to transact business in the Commonwealth.2. Upon request, the Commission may require any business entity that has obtained from the Commission a certificate of authority or registration to transact business in the Commonwealth to provide the information required in clause (ii) of subdivision 1 for any affiliate that is an out-of-state business as defined in subsection A of § 44-146.28:2.3. The Commission shall maintain a record of such disclosures, statements, and information and shall make the record available to the public.Code 1950, §§ 12-14, 14-11, 14-25; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-13; 1970, c. 260; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1998, c. 872; 2015, c. 595.
VA Code § 12.1-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of the Commission|§ 12.1-13. Commission to have powers of court of record; rules and regulations; fines

In all matters within the jurisdiction of the Commission, it shall have the powers of a court of record to administer oaths, to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents, to punish for contempt, and to enforce compliance with its lawful orders or requirements by adjudging and enforcing by its own appropriate process such fines or other penalties as may be prescribed or authorized by law.In the administration and enforcement of all laws within its jurisdiction, the Commission shall have the power to promulgate rules and regulations, to impose and collect such fines or other penalties as are provided by law, to enter appropriate orders, and to issue temporary and permanent injunctions. The Commission is empowered to suspend or revoke any Commission-issued license, certificate, registration, permit, or any other Commission-issued authority of any person who fails to satisfy any fine or penalty imposed by an order of the Commission.Whenever no fine or other penalty is specifically imposed by statute for the failure of any such individual or business conducted by any entity other than an individual to comply with any provision of law or with any valid rule, regulation, or order of the Commission, the Commission may impose and collect from such individual or business conducted by any entity other than an individual a fine in an amount not to exceed $5,000 in the case of an individual, and in the case of a business conducted by any entity other than an individual not to exceed $10,000.Code 1950, § 12-14; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1992, c. 11; 2000, c. 986.
VA Code § 12.1-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of the Commission|§ 12.1-14. Commission's power to impose penalties does not relieve from other penalties

The penalties which the Commission is authorized by law to impose on any person shall not be construed to relieve such person from any other penalties which may be authorized by law.Code 1950, § 12-19; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.
VA Code § 12.1-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of the Commission|§ 12.1-15. Power to compromise and settle; power to waive penalties and charge off delinquent taxes, etc.

The Commission shall have power and authority in any matter, claim, or charge within its jurisdiction, under any provision of law heretofore or hereafter enacted, to compromise or settle any matter, claim, or charge, either by or in a formal proceeding, or informally, whether any proceeding shall have been instituted or not. The Commission shall have the power and authority to dismiss any proceeding which is pending and in which a compromise or settlement is effected without making a formal record of such compromise or settlement, in its sound judicial discretion. Any compromise or settlement may include provisions for reimbursement to the Commission to defray the costs, or a portion thereof, of any audit, investigation, or examination conducted.The power and authority of the Commission to make compromises and settlements hereby conferred shall extend to its jurisdiction to impose fines and penalties under any provision of law heretofore or hereafter enacted.Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed to authorize or empower the Commission to effect any compromise or settlement involving the payment of money into the treasury without some record or memorandum of such compromise or settlement in the clerk's office of the Commission.The Commission shall have power and authority to waive the assessment of any penalty or interest upon any tax or fee assessed by the Commission, and to abate and exonerate any such penalty or interest, whether heretofore or hereafter assessed, for providential or other good cause shown to the satisfaction of the Commission, or in cases where the collection thereof cannot be economically effected because the cost of collection exceeds the amount recoverable.The Commission shall have power and authority to charge off delinquent taxes and registration fees on its books when the claims therefor are worthless or cannot be economically collected, and shall notify the State Tax Commissioner and the Comptroller of such action in such detail and at such times as they may require. The Commission shall maintain records which indicate the reason for the charge off for a period of three years.Code 1950, § 12-20; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1975, c. 236; 1991, c. 128.
VA Code § 12.1-15.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of the Commission|§ 12.1-15.1. Power to employ counsel for and indemnify employees

The Commission shall have the power to retain counsel for and to indemnify its employees and agents who were or are parties or are threatened to be made parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that they are or were employees or agents of the Commission or are or were serving at the request of the Commission as directors, officers, employees or agents of another entity, against expenses, including attorney's fees, reasonably incurred by them in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the Commission or any court of record to whom the matter shall be submitted shall find the employees or agents acting in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believe to be in the best interest of the duties assigned to them by law or the Commission.1976, c. 341.
VA Code § 12.1-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of the Commission|§ 12.1-16. Delegation to employees and agents; Commissioner of Financial Institutions and Commissioner of Insurance

In the exercise of the powers and in the performance of the duties imposed by law upon the Commission with respect to insurance and banking, the Commission may delegate to such employees and agents as it may deem proper such powers and require of them, or any of them, the performance of such duties as it may deem proper. The employee or agent who is placed by the Commission at the head of the bureau or division through which it administers the banking laws shall be designated "Commissioner of Financial Institutions," and the employee or agent who is placed by the Commission at the head of the bureau or division through which it administers the insurance laws shall be designated "Commissioner of Insurance," and they and all deputies, agents, and employees used in such bureau or division shall be appointed by the Commission.Code 1950, § 12-16; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1978, c. 14.
VA Code § 12.1-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 3 - Powers and Duties of the Commission|§ 12.1-17. Deposits of funds; means of payment; dishonored payments; receipts for payment

A. All funds received by the Commission in the course of its duties shall be paid promptly to the State Treasurer or deposited promptly in banks designated by the State Treasurer to the credit of the State Treasurer.B. The Commission may accept payment of any amount due by any means acceptable to the Commission, including by check, credit card, debit card, and electronic funds transfer. The Commission may add to any amount due a sum, not to exceed the amount charged to the Commission, for acceptance of any payment by a means that incurs a charge to the Commission, or it may absorb a portion or all of the cost of such charge.C. If any check or other means of payment is dishonored, declined, refused, reversed, charged back to the Commission, returned to the Commission unpaid, or otherwise rejected for any reason by a financial institution or other third party, the amount of the check or other means of payment shall be charged to the person on whose account it was received and his liability and that of his sureties shall be as if payment had never been made. A penalty of $35 or the amount of any cost incurred by the Commission, whichever is greater, shall be added to such amount. This penalty shall be in addition to any other penalty provided by law, except the penalty imposed by § 58.1-12 shall not apply. Any penalties received by the Commission under this section shall be set aside and paid into the special fund (i) created under § 13.1-775.1, in the case of penalties received by the clerk's office, or (ii) into which the payment that caused the penalty was to be deposited, in the case of penalties otherwise received by the Commission.D. The Commission shall issue receipts for all currency received for payments in the course of its duties.Code 1950, §§ 12-24, 12-25; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1986, c. 15; 1995, c. 238; 2002, c. 719; 2013, c. 21; 2017, c. 486.
VA Code § 12.1-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 12.1 - State Corporation Commission|Chapter 4 - Subordinate Employees of the Commission|§ 12.1-18. Subordinates and employees to be appointed to serve at pleasure of Commission

The Commission shall appoint a clerk and his deputies and assistants, a bailiff, all necessary heads and assistant heads of divisions and bureaus, all necessary regular and special counsel notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 5 (§ 2.2-500 et seq.) of Title 2.2, and such other subordinates and employees as may be necessary to the proper discharge of its duties, all of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the Commission.Code 1950, § 12-39; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 1991, c. 123.