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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>346265</law_id><section_number>12.1-29</section_number><catch_line>Writs and process</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="42" identifier="12.1">State Corporation Commission</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="5" identifier="5">Procedure Before the Commission and Appeals</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All <span class="dictionary">writs</span>, processes, and <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of the Commission shall run in the name of the Commonwealth, and shall be attested by its clerk, and shall be directed to its <span class="dictionary">bailiff</span>, and may be served, executed, and returned by the said <span class="dictionary">bailiff</span>, in any city or county of this Commonwealth, or by the sheriff, or any constable, of any city or county in this Commonwealth within his bailiwick. All <span class="dictionary">writs</span>, notices, processes, or <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of the Commission may be served, executed, and returned in like manner and upon like persons or property as the processes, <span class="dictionary">writs</span>, notices, or <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of record of this Commonwealth, and when so served, executed, and returned shall have the like legal effect.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 12-56; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
