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Statutes > Virginia > Title-12-1 > Chapter-3 > 12-1-15-1§ 12.1-15.1. Power to employ counsel for and indemnify employees.
The Commission shall have the power to retain counsel for and to indemnifyits employees and agents who were or are parties or are threatened to be madeparties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceedingwhether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative or investigative, byreason of the fact that they are or were employees or agents of theCommission or are or were serving at the request of the Commission asdirectors, officers, employees or agents of another entity, against expenses,including attorney's fees, reasonably incurred by them in connection withsuch action, suit or proceeding if the Commission or any court of record towhom the matter shall be submitted shall find the employees or agents actingin good faith and in a manner they reasonably believe to be in the bestinterest of the duties assigned to them by law or the Commission.
(1976, c. 341.)
