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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68117</law_id><section_number>45.2-572</section_number><catch_line> Violations; penalty</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="II">Coal Mining</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="A">Coal Mines Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Coal Mine Safety Act</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="8">Enforcement and Penalties; Reports of Violations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person who willfully violates any provision of the Act or any regulation adopted pursuant to the Act, unless otherwise specified in the Act, is guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 45-17; 1954, c. 191; 1966, c. 594, &#xA7; 45.1-105; 1975, c. 520; 1978, c. 118; 1980, c. 388; 1994, c. 28, &#xA7; 45.1-161.94; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
