60.2-628 - Protection against self-incrimination. - Virginia Statutes

§ 60.2-628. Protection against self-incrimination.

No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producingbooks, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before theCommission in any cause or proceeding before the Commission, on the groundthat the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him maytend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. However,no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiturefor or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he iscompelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, totestify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that suchindividual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishmentfor perjury committed in so testifying.

(Code 1950, § 60-38; 1968, c. 738, § 60.1-43; 1986, c. 480.)