2010 Code of Virginia
Title 6.2 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SERVICES.
Chapter 8 - Banks (6.2-800 thru 6.2-946)
6.2-938 - (Effective October 1, 2010) Engaging in banking business without authority; Commission may examine accounts of suspected person; penalty.

§ 6.2-938. (Effective October 1, 2010) Engaging in banking business without authority; Commission may examine accounts of suspected person; penalty.

A. Every person who trades or deals as a bank, or carries on banking, without authority of law, and their officers and agents, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

B. The Commission shall have authority to examine the accounts, books, and papers of any person who it has reason to suspect is doing a banking business, in order to ascertain whether such person has violated, or is violating, any provision of this title. The refusal to submit such accounts, books, and papers shall be prima facie evidence of such violation.

(Code 1950, § 6-133; 1966, c. 584, § 6.1-111; 1992, c. 136; 1994, c. 7; 2010, c. 794.)

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