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<law><law_id>785951</law_id><section_number>6.2-938</section_number><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><edition url="https://vacode.org/2016/" id="11" last_updated="2016-07-24" current="TRUE">2016</edition><structure><unit level="1" identifier="6.2" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/">Financial Institutions And Services</unit><unit level="2" identifier="II" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/II/">Depository Institutions And Trust Organizations</unit><unit level="3" identifier="8" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/II/8/">Banks</unit><unit level="4" identifier="15" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/II/8/15/">Banking Offenses.</unit></structure><catch_line>Engaging in banking business without authority; Commission may examine accounts of suspected person; penalty</catch_line><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-133; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-111; 1992, c. 136; 1994, c. 7; 2010, c. 794.</history><order_by/><text><section id="2535199" prefix="A"><text>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.</text><type>section</type><prefixes><section>A</section></prefixes><entire_prefix>A</entire_prefix><prefix_anchor>A</prefix_anchor><level>1</level></section><section id="2535200" prefix="B"><text>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.</text><type>section</type><prefixes><section>B</section></prefixes><entire_prefix>B</entire_prefix><prefix_anchor>B</prefix_anchor><level>1</level></section></text><metadata/><court_decisions/><official_url>http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/6.2-938/</official_url><refers_to/><url>/6.2-938/</url><token>6.2/II/8/15/6.2-938</token><referred_to_by/></law>
