3.2-5614 - Police powers of Commissioner. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-5614. Police powers of Commissioner.

With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other acts dealingwith weights and measures that he is, or may be, empowered to enforce, theCommissioner is hereby vested with police powers, and is authorized to arrestany violator of the said acts and to seize for use as evidence, withoutformal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts orpackages of commodity, found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed forsale, 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 formalwarrant, any structure or premises, and to stop any person whatsoever ifnecessary to apprehend such person and to require him to proceed, with orwithout any vehicle of which he may be in charge, to some place that theCommissioner may specify.

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