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This law was first created in 1992. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 242 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 1992 \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 2008, chapter 860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":58441,"section_number":"3.2-5704","catch_line":"Registration fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/3.2-5704\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":198007,"object_type":"law","relational_id":72895,"identifier":"3.2-5705","token":"3.2\/IV\/57\/3.2-5705","url":"\/3.2-5705\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-5705\/","token":"3.2\/IV\/57\/3.2-5705","dublin_core":{"Title":"Exemption from registration fee","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-5705","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> No service agency shall be required to pay a registration fee under the provisions of this chapter if it is: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> A business employing service technicians<\/span> to install, place in service, adjust, repair, service, or recondition weights or measures that are owned or operated by the business but that are used by no other business; or <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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B.<\/span> A service technician<\/span> that is employed by a business that is exempt from paying a registration fee pursuant to subsection A of this section shall not be required to pay a certification fee under the provisions of this chapter. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nEXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION FEE (\u00a7 3.2-5705)\n\nA. No service agency shall be required to pay a registration fee under the\nprovisions of this chapter if it is:\n\n 1. A business employing service technicians to install, place in service,\n adjust, repair, service, or recondition weights or measures that are owned or\n operated by the business but that are used by no other business; or\n\n 2. A government or political subdivision engaged in the installation, placing\n in service, adjusting, repairing, servicing, or reconditioning of weights or\n measures owned or operated by the government or political subdivision.\n\nB. A service technician that is employed by a business that is exempt from\npaying a registration fee pursuant to subsection A of this section shall not be\nrequired to pay a certification fee under the provisions of this chapter.\n\nHISTORY: 1992, c. 242, \u00a7 3.1-969.6; 2008, c. 860.","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}}