When the Senate or House of Delegates, a joint committee or commission thereof, or any committee of either house authorized to send for persons and papers, shall order the attendance of any witness, or the production of any paper as evidence, a summons shall be issued accordingly by the clerk of such house, directed to the sheriff or other officer of any county or city, or the chief officer of the Virginia Capitol Police, or his designee, and, when served, obedience thereto may be enforced by attachment, fine and imprisonment in jail, at the discretion of the house which, or the committee of which, caused the summons to issue, or in the case of a joint committee or commission, at the discretion of such joint committee or commission or as the two houses may determine by joint resolution.
Code 1919, § 303; 1958, c. 608; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 155; 2003, c. 231.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 1 - General Assembly and Officers Thereof
§ 30-1. Time and place of meeting of General Assembly
§ 30-2. Meeting at place appointed by Governor
§ 30-3. How convened in extra session
§ 30-6. Privilege of members, clerks and clerks' assistants, and Lieutenant Governor from arrest
§ 30-7. Members, clerks, assistants, etc., subject to arrest for criminal offenses
§ 30-8. Member must obey writ of habeas corpus
§ 30-9. Privilege of members for words spoken or written
§ 30-10. Attendance of witnesses; production of evidence
§ 30-11. Who to administer oaths to witnesses
§ 30-12. Duties of officers of each house
§ 30-14. Clerk to be Keeper of the Rolls; other duties
§ 30-14.01. Certifying copy of act; fee
§ 30-14.1. Enrollment of act to codify the laws; printing and distribution
§ 30-14.2. Reenrollment of bills amended in accordance with recommendations of Governor
§ 30-14.3. Keeper of the Rolls authorized to correct typographical errors, etc., in legislation
§ 30-15. Index to Senate journal
§ 30-15.1. Deputy clerks of the Senate; certification of records
§ 30-15.1:1. Use of Senate armorial bearings; penalty
§ 30-15.2. Distribution of Code, supplements and replacement volumes to members of Senate
§ 30-16. Books and maps of committees; original bills
§ 30-16.1. Correction of misspellings in bills and resolutions already introduced
§ 30-17. Alteration, secretion or destruction of pending bills or resolutions
§ 30-19. How Constitution amended
§ 30-19.03:1.2. Unemployment compensation bills affecting net revenues of the Commonwealth
§ 30-19.03:2. Legislative summaries
§ 30-19.1:7. Bills related to the Virginia Retirement System; impact statements
§ 30-19.1:9. Duration of state boards and commissions
§ 30-19.1:11. Legislation that creates or renews tax credits
§ 30-19.1:13. Racial and ethnic impact statements for criminal justice legislation
§ 30-19.3. Prefiling of bills and resolutions
§ 30-19.5. Supervisory control of Division of Legislative Services
§ 30-19.8. Collection of information by legislative study groups; policy
§ 30-19.8:1. Due dates for legislative reports
§ 30-19.8:2. Absences on legislative commissions
§ 30-19.9. Distribution of information on proposed constitutional amendments to voters
§ 30-19.10. Distribution of information on proposed questions to be submitted to voters