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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69748</law_id><section_number>40.1-141</section_number><catch_line>Enforcement</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="40.1">Labor and Employment</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9">Industrial Hygiene and Safety Profession Title Protection Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Attorney General</span> or any aggrieved person may cause an action to be brought in the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the city or county in which a violation of this chapter has occurred for the issuance of an <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> to enjoin and restrain the <span class="dictionary">continuance</span> of such violation. If it appears to the satisfaction of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> that the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> has, in <span class="dictionary">fact</span>, violated this chapter, an <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> may be issued by such <span class="dictionary">court</span> enjoining and restraining any further violation, without requiring proof that any person has, in <span class="dictionary">fact</span>, been injured or damaged thereby. The <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> may enjoin such violations, notwithstanding the existence of an adequate remedy at <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>2001, c. 742.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
