12.1-5 - Offices; notice, writ or process; where public sessions may be held. - Virginia Statutes

§ 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 theCommission shall be made returnable to, and command the corporation or personagainst whom directed to appear before the Commission and answer on a certainday to be named therein; but the Commission may, in its discretion, if publicnecessity or the convenience of the parties require, hold public sessionselsewhere in the Commonwealth, and may order any notice, writ, or process tobe made returnable to the place of any such session; and for the holding ofany such session the Commission may occupy the courtroom of the courthouse ofthe city or county wherein such session may be held, if such courtroom shallnot at the time be in use for the sessions of the court of any such city orcounty.

(Code 1950, § 12-5; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.)