2006 Code of Virginia § 2.2-1812 - Admissibility of reproductions of checks in evidence; compliance with subpoena

2.2-1812. Admissibility of reproductions of checks in evidence; compliancewith subpoena.

A. A reproduction of any check or draft or an enlargement of suchreproduction drawn by the State Treasurer, when satisfactorily identified,shall be admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial oradministrative proceeding whether the original is in existence. Theintroduction of a reproduced check or draft or of an enlargement thereofshall not preclude admission of the original. Any such check or draft,reproduction or enlargement purporting to be sealed, sealed and signed, orsigned alone by the State Treasurer or on his behalf by his designee, may beconsidered satisfactorily identified and admitted as evidence, without anyproof of the seal or signature, or of the official character of the personwhose name is signed to it.

B. The State Treasurer or his designee, when served with any summons,subpoena, subpoena duces tecum or order, directing him to produce any checkor draft kept by or in the possession of any agency or institution of theCommonwealth, may comply by certifying a reproduction or enlargement inaccordance with subsection A and mailing the reproduction or enlargement in asealed envelope to the clerk of court. Upon good cause shown, any court maydirect the Treasurer or his designee to appear personally, notwithstandingany other provision of this section.

(1979, c. 173, 2.1-190.1; 1994, c. 16; 2001, c. 844.)