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The Commissioner, at the request of the person, shall, within forty-eight hours, provide an opportunity for him to show why the suspension is unjust, and for good cause shown the Commissioner shall vacate such suspension. No person whose license is suspended pursuant to this section shall engage in any fishery.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":214997,"text":"The Commissioner of Marine Resources may immediately suspend any licenses of any license holder who has committed more than one violation of this chapter. The suspension shall be effective until the day following the next meeting of the Commission to take place after ten days&#8217; notice to such person. The Commissioner, at the request of the person, shall, within forty-eight hours, provide an opportunity for him to show why the suspension is unjust, and for good cause shown the Commissioner shall vacate such suspension. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 2 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1989 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 1992, chapter 836.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":191857,"object_type":"law","relational_id":58662,"identifier":"28.2-822","token":"28.2\/II\/8\/2\/28.2-822","url":"\/28.2-822\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/28.2-822\/","token":"28.2\/II\/8\/2\/28.2-822","dublin_core":{"Title":"Suspension or revocation of licenses","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 28.2-822","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Commissioner<\/span> of Marine Resources may immediately suspend any licenses of any license holder who has committed more than one violation of this chapter. The suspension shall be effective until the day following the next meeting of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Commission<\/span> to take place after ten days&#8217; notice to such person. 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The\nCommissioner, at the request of the person, shall, within forty-eight hours,\nprovide an opportunity for him to show why the suspension is unjust, and for\ngood cause shown the Commissioner shall vacate such suspension. No person whose\nlicense is suspended pursuant to this section shall engage in any fishery.\n\nHISTORY: 1989, c. 2, \u00a7 28.1-36.01; 1992, c. 836.","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}}