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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 805 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 1972 \u201cActs\u201d aren\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 1975, chapter 479; in 1978, chapter 248; in 1988, chapter 64; in 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0556\">556<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":241565,"object_type":"law","relational_id":69053,"identifier":"54.1-2708","token":"54.1\/III\/27\/1\/54.1-2708","url":"\/54.1-2708\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-2708\/","token":"54.1\/III\/27\/1\/54.1-2708","dublin_core":{"Title":"Disciplinary action discretion","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-2708","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Except in the case of a monetary <span class=\"dictionary\">penalty<\/span>, the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> may take disciplinary action notwithstanding any action pending before or consummated before any <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> or any criminal <span class=\"dictionary\">penalty<\/span> which has been or may be imposed.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDISCIPLINARY ACTION DISCRETION (\u00a7 54.1-2708)\n\nExcept in the case of a monetary penalty, the Board may take disciplinary action\nnotwithstanding any action pending before or consummated before any court or any\ncriminal penalty which has been or may be imposed.\n\nHISTORY: 1972, c. 805, \u00a7 54-189.1; 1975, c. 479; 1978, c. 248; 1988, cc. 64;\n765; 1997, c. 556.","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}}