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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65854</law_id><section_number>12.1-33</section_number><catch_line>Fine for disobedience of Commission orders</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="12.1">State Corporation Commission</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Procedure Before the Commission and Appeals</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any individual or business conducted by any entity other than an individual failing or refusing to obey any <span class="dictionary">order</span> or any temporary or permanent <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> of the Commission may be fined by the Commission such sum, not exceeding $5,000 in the case of an individual or $10,000 in the case of a business conducted by any entity other than an individual, as the Commission may deem proper; and each day&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">continuance</span> of such failure or refusal shall be a separate <span class="dictionary">offense</span>. Should the operation of such <span class="dictionary">order</span> be suspended pending an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> therefrom, the period of such suspension shall not be computed against the person, individual, or business in the matter of the liability to fines or penalties.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 12-18; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 157; 2000, c. 986.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
