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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73274</law_id><section_number>46.2-1131</section_number><catch_line>Penalty for violation of weight limits</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-1134</reference><reference>46.2-1138</reference><reference>46.2-1138.1</reference><reference>46.2-1138.2</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Motor Vehicle and Equipment Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="17">Maximum Vehicle Weights</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person violating any weight limit as provided in this chapter or any permit issued by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or its designee or by local authorities pursuant to this article shall be subject to a civil <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of $25 and a processing fee of $20 in addition to any liquidated <span class="dictionary">damages</span> and weighing fees imposed by this article. Upon collection by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="County ordinances fixing weight limits on roads that have been withdrawn from secondary system" href="/46.2-1138/">46.2-1138</a>, civil penalties shall be paid to the Literary Fund, but processing fees shall be paid to the state treasury and, beginning July 1, 1990, shall be set aside as a special fund to be used to meet the expenses of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of <span class="dictionary">Motor Vehicles</span>. In addition, liquidated <span class="dictionary">damages</span> and weighing fees shall be distributed as provided in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Contingent effective date -- see note*) Liquidated damages for violation of weight limits" href="/46.2-1135/">46.2-1135</a> and <a class="law" title="Weighing vehicles; procedure; shifting loads; unloading excess load; weighing fee; certificate as to accuracy of scales admissible in evidence; penalties" href="/46.2-1137/">46.2-1137</a>, respectively, except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="County ordinances fixing weight limits on roads that have been withdrawn from secondary system" href="/46.2-1138/">46.2-1138</a>.
		The penalties, <span class="dictionary">damages</span>, and fees specified in this section shall be in addition to any other liability which may be legally fixed against the <span class="dictionary">owner</span>, <span class="dictionary">operator</span>, or other person charged with the weight violation for damage to a <span class="dictionary">highway</span> or bridge attributable to such weight violation.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-335.1; 1956, c. 215; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-341; 1972, c. 439; 1978, cc. 294, 605; 1986, c. 588; 1987, c. 372; 1988, c. 11; 1989, c. 727; 1990, c. 418; 2003, c. 314.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
