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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85821</law_id><section_number>45.2-1626</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="45.2">Mines, Minerals, and Energy</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Gas and Oil</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="16">Virginia Gas and Oil Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Gas and Oil Conservation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Director</span> shall enforce the provisions of this article pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title=" Duties, responsibilities, and authority of the Director" href="/45.2-1629/">45.2-1629</a> et seq.). In addition, if any person violates or threatens to violate any provision of this article, regulation adopted thereunder, or <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may maintain suit to restrain any such violation or threatened violation.</p></section></text><history>1982, c. 347, &#xA7; 45.1-306; 1990, c. 92, &#xA7; 45.1-361.24; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
