CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECT OF REFUSAL TO PERMIT OR WITHHOLDING FROM EXAMINATION OF PAPERS, ETC (§
33.2-1109)

If any highway contractors’ association, whether domiciled in Virginia or
not, on application of any person authorized by this article to examine and
inspect its records, refuses to permit such examination and inspection of its
papers, accounts, and records, or fails to produce at its principal office for
examination and inspection any of its papers, accounts, or records when
requested so to do, or knowingly withholds from examination and inspection any
of its papers, accounts, and records, for the purpose of secreting any of its
acts or activities or the amount or sources of or the use made of its revenue,
the person requesting or making such examination and inspection shall report the
fact to the Governor, who shall certify the fact to the Commissioner of
Highways.No contract for highway or highway bridge construction, repair, or
maintenance or for the supplying of any labor, materials, or supplies for such
construction, repair, or maintenance shall be thereafter let to any member of
such association until the Governor has certified to the Board that a full
examination and inspection of the papers, accounts, and records of such
association has been made with the free consent and cooperation of such
association and that such examination and inspection discloses nothing in the
purposes, methods, or activities of such association detrimental to the public
interest or tending to prevent competition in or increase the cost of highway
and highway bridge construction, repair, or maintenance in the Commonwealth and
that none of its revenue has been used for political purposes.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 33-274; 1970, c. 322, § 33.1-340; 2014, c. 805.