2006 Code of Virginia § 3.1-430 - Powers in general

3.1-430. Powers in general.

The Commission is declared to be an instrumentality of the Commonwealth,vested with the power:

(a) Cooperation with other authorities. - To confer and cooperate with thelegally constituted authorities of other states and of the United States,with a view of securing a uniformity of milk control, with respect to milkcoming into the Commonwealth and going out of the Commonwealth in interstatecommerce, with a view of accomplishing the purposes of this article and toenter into a compact or compacts for such uniform system of milk control.

(b) Investigations. - To investigate all matters pertaining to theproduction, processing, storage, transportation, distribution and sale ofmilk in the Commonwealth.

(c) Supervision and control. - To supervise, regulate, and control theproduction, transportation, processing, storage, distribution, delivery andsale of milk for consumption within the Commonwealth.

(d) Acting as mediator. - To act as mediator or arbiter in any controversialissue that may arise among or between milk producers and distributors, asbetween themselves, or that may arise between them as groups.

(e) Examination of accounts; subpoenas. - To examine into the business,books, and accounts of any milk producer, association of producers, or milkdistributors, their affiliates or subsidiaries; to issue subpoenas to milkproducers, associations of producers, and milk distributors, and to requirethem to produce their records, books and accounts; to subpoena any otherperson from whom information is desired.

(f) Depositions and administration of oaths. - To take depositions ofwitnesses within, or without, the Commonwealth. Any member of the Commission,or any employee designated by the Commission, may administer oaths towitnesses and sign and issue subpoenas.

(g) Rules, regulations and orders. - To make, adopt and enforce all rules,regulations or orders necessary to carry out the purposes of this article.Every rule or order of the Commission shall be posted for inspection in themain office of the Commission, and a certified copy filed in the office ofthe Commissioner of Agriculture. An order, applying only to a person orpersons named therein, shall be served on the person or persons affected. Anorder, herein required to be served, shall be served by personal delivery ofa certified copy, or by mailing a certified copy in a sealed envelope, withpostage prepaid, to each person affected thereby; or, in the case of acorporation, to any officer or agent of the corporation upon whom legalprocess may be served. The posting in the main office of the Commission ofany rule and of any order, not herein required to be served, and such filingin the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture, shall constitute due andsufficient notice to all persons affected by such rule or order.

(Code 1950, 3-352; 1966, c. 702.)