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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0460\">460<\/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":284677,"object_type":"law","relational_id":72995,"identifier":"9.1-185.18","token":"9.1\/1\/11\/9.1-185.18","url":"\/9.1-185.18\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/9.1-185.18\/","token":"9.1\/1\/11\/9.1-185.18","dublin_core":{"Title":"Penalties","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 9.1-185.18","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>It shall be a Class 1 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span> to engage in <span class=\"dictionary\">bail<\/span> bonding for profit or other consideration without a valid license issued by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> in this Commonwealth. 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The penalty may be sued for and recovered in the name\nof the Commonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 460.","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}}