When commissioner deemed to have acquiesced in violation

A commissioner shall be deemed to have acquiesced in a willful violation by the authority of a law of this Commonwealth or of any term, provision or covenant contained in a contract to which the authority is a party if, before a hearing is held on charges against him, he has not filed a written statement with the authority of his objections to, or lack of participation in, such violation. Code 1950, § 32-228; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1547; 1997, c. 587.