CHAPTER 670

An Act to amend and reenact § 46-894 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the powers and duties of the Commissioner of the Division of
Motor Vehicles, to provide compulsion of attendance and testimony
at hearings by court order.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

a That § 46-394 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 46-394. The Commissioner shall administer and enforce the pro-
visions of this chapter and he may adopt regulations for its administration
in accordance with the guiding principles prescribed in, and not incon-
sistent with the terms of, this chapter. He may * issue subpoenas for
witnesses to attend upon, administer oaths, and * take testimony in, the
hearings provided for in this chapter for the purpose of finding whether
or not operators’ or chauffeurs’ licenses, registration plates or registra-
tions should be suspended or revoked or registration plates should be
taken up. If any person shall fail or refuse to obey such subpoena, or to
give such testimony, the Commissioner shall notify the trial justice or
circuit court of the county, or the police, circuit, corporation or hustings
court of the city in which such hearing is being or was to have been held.
Upon the receipt of such notice, the court, or the judge thereof in recess,
shall, by appropriate process, compel such attendance or testimony or both,
to une same extent that the same could be required in a proceeding in
such court.