Code of Virginia - Title 2.2 Administration Of Government - Chapter 5 Department Of Law

  • 2.2-500 Attorney General to be chief executive officer; duties generally
    The Attorney General shall be the chief executive officer of the Department of Law, and shall perform such duties as may be provided by law. ...
  • 2.2-501 Assistant and deputy Attorneys General
    The Attorney General shall appoint a chief deputy Attorney General and may appoint the necessary deputy Attorneys General and assistant Attorneys General and fix their ...
  • 2.2-502 Support staff
    The Attorney General may appoint such persons as he deems necessary for the efficient conduct of his office, and apportion, out of the appropriation for ...
  • 2.2-503 Office space
    The Governor shall assign to the Attorney General office space for the Attorney General, his assistants and employees suitable for the transaction of the legal ...
  • 2.2-504 Contingent and traveling expenses
    The Attorney General may expend for the contingent expenses of his office the sums appropriated for his office by the General Assembly. The Attorney General, ...
  • 2.2-505 Official opinions of Attorney General
    A. The Attorney General shall give his advice and render official advisory opinions in writing only when requested in writing so to do by one ...
  • 2.2-506 Legal services to attorneys for the Commonwealth in certain proceedings; costs
    The Attorney General shall at the request of an attorney for the Commonwealth, provide legal service to such attorney for the Commonwealth in any proceedings ...
  • 2.2-507 Legal service in civil matters
    A. All legal service in civil matters for the Commonwealth, the Governor, and every state department, institution, division, commission, board, bureau, agency, entity, official, court, ...
  • 2.2-507.1 Authority of Attorney General regarding charitable assets
    A. The assets of a charitable corporation incorporated in or doing any business in Virginia shall be deemed to be held in trust for the ...
  • 2.2-507.2 Youth Internet Safety Fund established.
    There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Youth Internet Safety Fund, hereafter referred to as ...
  • 2.2-508 Legal service in certain redistricting proceedings
    Upon notification by a county, city or town of a pending civil action challenging the legality of its election district boundaries as required by § ...
  • 2.2-509 Representation in administrative proceedings
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Attorney General finds after consultation with the head of the affected department that it is in the ...
  • 2.2-509.1 Powers of investigators; enforcement of certain tobacco laws.
    Investigators with the Office of the Attorney General as designated by the Attorney General shall be authorized to seize cigarettes as defined in § 3.2-4200, ...
  • 2.2-510 Employment of special counsel generally
    No special counsel shall be employed for or by the Governor or any state department, institution, division, commission, board, bureau, agency, entity, official, justice of ...
  • 2.2-510.1 Open negotiation for employment of special counsel
    No state agency or state agent shall enter into a contingency fee contract for legal services in which contingency fees and expenses are reasonably anticipated ...
  • 2.2-511 Criminal cases
    A. Unless specifically requested by the Governor to do so, the Attorney General shall have no authority to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in the ...
  • 2.2-512 Employment of special counsel to prosecute persons illegally practicing law
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Attorney General may expend funds appropriated to his office for the purpose of employing special counsel to investigate ...
  • 2.2-513 Counsel for Commonwealth in federal matters
    The Attorney General shall represent the interests of the Commonwealth, its departments, boards, institutions and commissions in matters before or controversies with the officers and ...
  • 2.2-514 Compromise and settlement of disputes
    A. Except as provided in this section or subsection B of § 23-38.33:1, the Attorney General may compromise and settle disputes, claims and controversies involving ...
  • 2.2-515 Service on board of national tobacco trust entity
    The Attorney General may serve in his official capacity on the board of directors of any entity established to ensure the implementation in the Commonwealth ...
  • 2.2-515.1 (Contingent expiration - see Editor's notes) Statewide Facilitator for Victims of Domestic Violenc...
    The Attorney General shall establish a Statewide Facilitator for Victims of Domestic Violence within the Office of the Attorney General. The Statewide Facilitator shall have ...
  • 2.2-515.2 (Contingent scope of application - See Editor's notes) Address confidentiality program established...
    A. As used in this section: "Address" means a residential street address, school address, or work address of a person as specified on the person's ...
  • 2.2-516 Annual report
    The Attorney General shall annually, on or before May 1, deliver to the Governor a report of the state and condition of all important matters ...
  • 2.2-517 Division of Consumer Counsel created; duties
    A. There is created in the Department of Law a Division of Consumer Counsel (the "Division") that shall represent the interests of the people as ...
  • 2.2-518 Division of Debt Collection
    There is created in the Department of Law a Division of Debt Collection that shall provide all legal services and advice related to the collection ...
  • 2.2-519 Prompt collection of accounts receivable.
    A. The Division shall oversee and ensure prompt delivery of the Commonwealth's accounts receivable in accordance with the Virginia Debt Collection Act (§ 2.2-4800 et ...

Last modified: April 2, 2009