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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84425</law_id><section_number>3.2-407</section_number><catch_line>Liens</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="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions; Protection and Promotion of Agriculture</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Agricultural Stewardship</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If a person who is required to pay a civil <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> under this chapter fails to do so, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> may transmit a true copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> assessing such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> to the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of any county or city wherein it is ascertained that the person owing such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> has any estate; and the clerk to whom such copy is transmitted shall record it, as a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> is required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be recorded, and shall index it in the name of the Commonwealth as well as in the name of the person owing the civil <span class="dictionary">penalty</span>, and thereupon there shall be a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> in favor of the Commonwealth on the property within such locality of the person owing the civil <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> in the amount of the civil <span class="dictionary">penalty</span>. The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> and <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may collect civil penalties that are owed in the same manner as provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span> in respect to <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>.</p></section></text><history>1996, c. 773, &#xA7; 10.1-559.8; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
