The Commission may, as often as it deems necessary, investigate and examine the affairs, business, premises, and records of any mortgage lender or mortgage broker required to be licensed under this chapter insofar as they pertain to any business for which a license is required by this chapter. Examinations of such mortgage lenders shall be conducted at least once in each three-year period. In the course of such investigations and examinations, the owners, members, officers, directors, partners, and employees of such mortgage lender or mortgage broker being investigated or examined shall, upon demand of the person making such investigation or examination, afford full access to all premises, books, records and information which the person making such investigation or examination deems necessary. For the foregoing purposes, the person making such investigation or examination shall have authority to administer oaths, examine under oath all the aforementioned persons, and compel the production of papers and objects of all kinds.
1987, c. 596, § 6.1-419; 2010, c. 794.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 6.2 - Financial Institutions and Services
Chapter 16 - Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Brokers
§ 6.2-1601. License requirement
§ 6.2-1602. Persons exempt from chapter
§ 6.2-1603. Application for license; form; content; fee
§ 6.2-1605. Investigation of applications
§ 6.2-1607. Licenses; places of business; changes
§ 6.2-1608. Acquisition of control; application
§ 6.2-1609. Retention of books, accounts and records
§ 6.2-1611. Investigations; examinations
§ 6.2-1614. Prohibitions applicable to mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers
§ 6.2-1615. Other prohibitions applicable to mortgage lenders
§ 6.2-1616. Other prohibitions applicable to mortgage brokers
§ 6.2-1617. Application to certain real estate brokers
§ 6.2-1619. Suspension or revocation of license
§ 6.2-1620. Censuring, suspending, or barring persons
§ 6.2-1621. Filing of written report with Commissioner; events affecting activities of licensee
§ 6.2-1622. Cease and desist orders
§ 6.2-1623. Notice of proposed suspension or revocation
§ 6.2-1625. Criminal penalties
§ 6.2-1626. Authority of Attorney General; referral by Commission to Attorney General
§ 6.2-1628. Enforcement of prohibitions on certain practices; recovery of attorney fees
§ 6.2-1629. Prohibited practices; authority of the Attorney General