22.1-214.1 - Issuance of subpoenas by hearing officers. - Virginia Statutes

§ 22.1-214.1. Issuance of subpoenas by hearing officers.

Any hearing officer appointed pursuant to the procedures provided for insubsections B and C of § 22.1-214 shall have the power to issue subpoenasrequiring testimony or the production of books, papers, and physical or otherevidence. Any person so subpoenaed who objects may, if the hearing officerdoes not quash or modify the subpoena at a timely request as illegally orimprovidently granted, immediately procure by a petition a decision on thevalidity thereof in the circuit court of the jurisdiction in which thehearing is to be held. In any case of refusal or neglect to comply with thehearing officer's subpoena, the hearing officer may procure an order ofenforcement from such court.

(Code 1950, § 22-10.4:1; 1980, c. 561.)