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§ 12.1-3 Seal of the Commission

The Commission shall have and use a common seal, to consist of a circular die with the coat-of-arms of Virginia and the title “State Corporation Commission” stamped upon the face of the die, and shall have power to affix such seal to any paper, record, or document when necessary for the purpose of authentication, and such seal, when so affixed to any paper, record, or document emanating from the Commission or its clerk’s office, shall have the same force and effect for authentication as the seal of any court of record in this Commonwealth.

History

The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. The oldest record of it is its appearance in the Code of Virginia of 1950, as § 12-3. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1971, chapter 157 of the Extra Session.

Code 1950, § 12-3; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.

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