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1996 SESSION
960318758Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The county board of any county [ with a population
between 100,000 and 200,000 operating under a county manager plan of
government ] which has established a local commission on human rights,
may provide by ordinance that whenever the commission has reasonable cause to
believe that any person has engaged in or is engaging in a violation of an
authorized local human rights ordinance, and after making a good faith effort
to obtain, voluntarily, the attendance of witnesses necessary to determine
whether such violation occurred, the commission is unable to obtain such
attendance, it may request the county attorney, with the approval of the county
board, to apply to the judge of the circuit court for the locality in which the
witness resides or is doing business for a subpoena against such person
refusing to appear as a witness, and the judge of such court may, upon good
cause shown, cause the subpoena to be issued. Such ordinance shall provide
that any witness subpoena so issued shall include a statement that any
statements made will be under oath and the witness is entitled to be
represented by an attorney. Such ordinance shall further provide that any
person failing to comply with such subpoena so issued shall be subject to
punishment for contempt by the court issuing the subpoena, and that any person
so subpoenaed may apply to the judge who issued a subpoena to quash it.