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The Commission may maintain an action at law against any person required to pay oyster resource user fees to the Commission for the amount of oyster resource user fees due, plus interest, and a penalty to be added to the oyster resource user fees in the amount of six percent if the failure is for not more than one month, with an additional six percent for each additional month, or fraction thereof, during which the failure continues, not to exceed 30 percent in the aggregate.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":200430,"text":"Any person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any person willfully failing to pay oyster resource user fees to the Commission in the manner required by this article is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The Commission may maintain an action at law against any person required to pay oyster resource user fees to the Commission for the amount of oyster resource user fees due, plus interest, and a penalty to be added to the oyster resource user fees in the amount of six percent if the failure is for not more than one month, with an additional six percent for each additional month, or fraction thereof, during which the failure continues, not to exceed 30 percent in the aggregate.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":13618,"edition_id":1,"name":"Oyster Records and Resource User Fees","identifier":"3","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13617,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:45:23","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:45:23","permalink":{"id":191373,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13618,"identifier":"3","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3","url":"\/28.2\/II\/5\/3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13617,"edition_id":1,"name":"Oysters and Clams","identifier":"5","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12814,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:45:23","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:45:23","permalink":{"id":191215,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13617,"identifier":"5","token":"28.2\/II\/5","url":"\/28.2\/II\/5\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12814,"edition_id":1,"name":"Tidal Fisheries","identifier":"II","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12813,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","permalink":{"id":190673,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12814,"identifier":"II","token":"28.2\/II","url":"\/28.2\/II\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12813,"edition_id":1,"name":"Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters","identifier":"28.2","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","permalink":{"id":190589,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12813,"identifier":"28.2","token":"28.2","url":"\/28.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":76048,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-538","catch_line":"Record of oysters handled; penalty","url":"\/28.2-538\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-538","metadata":false},{"id":82708,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-539","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/28.2-539\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-539","metadata":false},{"id":82821,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-541","catch_line":"Oyster resource user fees","url":"\/28.2-541\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-541","metadata":false},{"id":61999,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-542","catch_line":"Oyster Replenishment Fund","url":"\/28.2-542\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-542","metadata":false},{"id":87302,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-543","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/28.2-543\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-543","metadata":false},{"id":75423,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-545","catch_line":"Reserved","url":"\/28.2-545\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-545","metadata":false},{"id":66521,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-546","catch_line":"Permit to carry oysters out of state","url":"\/28.2-546\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-546","metadata":false},{"id":60391,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-547","catch_line":"Authority to inspect oysters when loaded on conveyance","url":"\/28.2-547\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-547","metadata":false},{"id":67262,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-548","catch_line":"Duty to inspect","url":"\/28.2-548\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-548","metadata":false},{"id":54584,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-549","catch_line":"Violations; recovery of oyster resource user fees; penalties","url":"\/28.2-549\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-549","metadata":false},{"id":80276,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-550","catch_line":"Authority of Commissioner to make certain contracts; funds received to be paid into Oyster Replenishment Fund","url":"\/28.2-550\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-550","metadata":false}],"previous_section":{"id":67262,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-548","catch_line":"Duty to inspect","url":"\/28.2-548\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-548","metadata":false},"next_section":{"id":80276,"structure_id":13618,"section_number":"28.2-550","catch_line":"Authority of Commissioner to make certain contracts; funds received to be paid into Oyster Replenishment Fund","url":"\/28.2-550\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-550","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/28.2-549\/","history_text":"<p>The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1962, chapter 406; in 1988, chapter 313; in 1992, chapter 836; in 2013, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?131+ful+CHAP0038\">38<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":191411,"object_type":"law","relational_id":54584,"identifier":"28.2-549","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-549","url":"\/28.2-549\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/28.2-549\/","token":"28.2\/II\/5\/3\/28.2-549","dublin_core":{"Title":"Violations; recovery of oyster resource user fees; penalties","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 28.2-549","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Any person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a Class 1 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. Any person willfully failing to pay oyster resource user fees to the <span class=\"dictionary\">Commission<\/span> in the manner required by this article is guilty of a Class 1 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. The <span class=\"dictionary\">Commission<\/span> may maintain an action at <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span> against any person required to pay oyster resource user fees to the <span class=\"dictionary\">Commission<\/span> for the amount of oyster resource user fees due, plus interest, and a <span class=\"dictionary\">penalty<\/span> to be added to the oyster resource user fees in the amount of six percent if the failure is for not more than one month, with an additional six percent for each additional month, or fraction thereof, during which the failure continues, not to exceed 30 percent in the aggregate.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nVIOLATIONS; RECOVERY OF OYSTER RESOURCE USER FEES; PENALTIES (\u00a7 28.2-549)\n\nAny person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a Class 1\nmisdemeanor. Any person willfully failing to pay oyster resource user fees to\nthe Commission in the manner required by this article is guilty of a Class 1\nmisdemeanor. The Commission may maintain an action at law against any person\nrequired to pay oyster resource user fees to the Commission for the amount of\noyster resource user fees due, plus interest, and a penalty to be added to the\noyster resource user fees in the amount of six percent if the failure is for not\nmore than one month, with an additional six percent for each additional month,\nor fraction thereof, during which the failure continues, not to exceed 30\npercent in the aggregate.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 28-109; 1962, c. 406, \u00a7 28.1-95; 1988, c. 313; 1992, c.\n836; 2013, c. 38.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}