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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79913</law_id><section_number>33.2-615</section_number><catch_line>Electronic notification of unpaid tolls</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="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Modes of Transportation: Highways, Bridges, Ferries, Rail, and Public Transportation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Ferries and Toll Facilities</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For the purpose of electronic notification of unpaid tolls, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall request email addresses and personal cell phone numbers from all holders of an account for an electronic toll collection device that is the property of the Commonwealth.
		The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall electronically notify a holder of an account for an electronic toll collection device that is the property of the Commonwealth of each unpaid toll, within 108 hours of such unpaid toll, (i) when such device is detected by the toll operator or (ii) when such device is not detected by the toll operator but whose vehicle is associated with such account. The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall provide a second electronic notification on the eighth day after the unpaid toll. Such notification requirements shall only apply to accounts where the account holder has provided the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> with an email address or cell phone number. Such notification shall be for informational purposes only and the notice, or lack thereof, shall not alter or <span class="dictionary">amend</span> the requirement that an owner or operator pay all required tolls, fines, penalties, and fees.
		All toll operators in the Commonwealth shall notify the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of an unpaid toll on a facility it operates related to an account for an electronic toll collection device that is the property of the Commonwealth within 96 hours of such violation.</p></section></text><history>2016, c. 753.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
