5.1-142 - Reports, records, etc.

VIRGINIA STATUTES AND CODES

5.1-142 - Reports, records, etc.

§ 5.1-142. Reports, records, etc.

(a) The Commission is hereby authorized to require annual, periodic, orspecial reports from all air carriers except such as are exempted from theoperation of the provisions of this chapter, to prescribe the manner and formin which such reports shall be made, and to require from such carriersspecific answers to all questions upon which the Commission may deeminformation to be necessary. Such reports shall be under oath whenever theCommission so requires. The Commission may also require any air carrier tofile with it a true copy of any contract, agreement, or arrangement betweensuch carrier and any other carrier or person in relation to any trafficaffected by the provisions of this chapter.

(b) The Commission may, in its discretion, prescribe the forms of any and allaccounts, records, and memoranda to be kept by air carriers and the length oftime such accounts, records and memoranda shall be preserved, including theaccounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, as well as ofthe receipts and expenditures of money. The Commission or its employees shallat all times have access to all lands, buildings, and equipment of aircarriers used in connection with their operation and also all accounts,records, and memoranda, including all documents, papers, and correspondencenow existing, and kept, or required to be kept, by air carriers. TheCommission and its employees shall have authority to inspect and examine anyand all such lands, buildings, equipment, accounts, records, and memoranda,including all documents, papers, and correspondence now or hereafter existingand kept or required to be kept by such carriers. This provision shall applyto receivers of carriers and to operating trustees and, to the extent deemednecessary by the Commission, to persons having control, direct or indirect,over or affiliated with any air carrier.

(Code 1950, § 56-197; 1970, c. 708.)