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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0596\">596<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":232471,"object_type":"law","relational_id":80564,"identifier":"46.2-2098","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/7\/46.2-2098","url":"\/46.2-2098\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-2098\/","token":"46.2\/V\/20\/7\/46.2-2098","dublin_core":{"Title":"Control, supervision and regulation by Department","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-2098","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, every <span class=\"dictionary\">contract passenger carrier<\/span> shall be subject to the exclusive control, supervision, and regulation by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span>, except that enforcement of <span class=\"dictionary\">statutes<\/span> and <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> regulations shall be not only by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span>, but also by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> of State Police and local <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span>-enforcement agencies. 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Nothing in this section shall be construed as\nauthorizing the adoption of local ordinances providing for local regulation of\ncontract passenger carriers.\n\nHISTORY: 2001, c. 596.","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}}