# Chapter 44 Public Accountants

This chapter is comprised of the following sections:

- §54.1-4400 Definitions
- §54.1-4401 Applicability of chapter
- §54.1-4402 Board; membership; qualifications; powers and duties
- §54.1-4403 General powers and duties of the Board
- §54.1-4404 Board to employ Executive Director; legal counsel
- §54.1-4405 Board of Accountancy Fund; receipts; disbursements
- §54.1-4405.1 Board of Accountancy Trust Account; creation; expenditures; excess moneys
- §54.1-4406 Powers and duties of the Executive Director
- §54.1-4407 Enforcement of laws by the Executive Director or investigators; authority of investigators appointed by the Executive Director
- §54.1-4408 Subpoenas
- §54.1-4409 Repealed
- §54.1-4409.1 Licensing requirements for persons
- §54.1-4409.2 How a person may obtain a Virginia license
- §54.1-4410 Repealed
- §54.1-4411 Practice privilege provisions for persons who hold the license of another state
- §54.1-4412 Repealed
- §54.1-4412.1 Licensing requirements for firms
- §54.1-4413 Repealed
- §54.1-4413.2 Issuance, renewal, and reinstatement of licenses and lifting the suspension of privileges
- §54.1-4413.3 Standards of conduct and practice
- §54.1-4413.4 Penalties
- §54.1-4413.5 Confidential consent agreements
- §54.1-4414 Prohibited acts
- §54.1-4415 Exemptions from unlawful acts
- §54.1-4416 Board’s powers with respect to hearings under this chapter
- §54.1-4417 Repealed
- §54.1-4418 Recovery of cost after grant of formal fact-finding
- §54.1-4419 Repealed
- §54.1-4420 Repealed
- §54.1-4421 Biennial report
- §54.1-4422 Expired
- §54.1-4423 Use of consultants in investigations
- §54.1-4424 Certain information not to be made public
- §54.1-4425 Time for filing complaints against CPAs or CPA firms