Virginia legal term
Commission in Virginia Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Virginia legislative session
In Virginia criminal law, “Commission” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Virginia criminal code.
What does “Commission” mean in Virginia criminal law?
"Commission" means the State Corporation Commission. (Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-100)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Computer invasion of privacy
- Concealing or compounding offenses
- Covering a security camera in a correctional facility
- Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials
- How accessories after the fact punished
- Transfers for the sole or primary purpose of obtaining a lower unemployment tax rate
- Unlawful use of payment card scanning devices and re-encoders
- What constitutes an unlawful assembly
- Application for and issuance of search warrant for a tracking device
- Barratry unlawful
- Carrying weapon into courthouse
- Committing, conspiring and aiding and abetting acts of terrorism prohibited
Related terms in the same statutes
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