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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67144</law_id><section_number>46.2-1136</section_number><catch_line>Procedures for issuing and serving process in overweight vehicle cases</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-217</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 officer or size and weight compliance <span class="dictionary">agent</span> authorized to enforce overweight vehicle <span class="dictionary">laws</span> may <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a <span class="dictionary">citation</span> for a violation of such <span class="dictionary">laws</span>. Such officer may also serve an <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> <span class="dictionary">summons</span> issued by a <span class="dictionary">judge</span> or <span class="dictionary">magistrate</span> in connection with a weight violation.
		Service of any such <span class="dictionary">citation</span> shall be made upon the <span class="dictionary">driver</span> of the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> involved in the violation. Such service on the <span class="dictionary">driver</span> shall have the same legal force and validity as if served within the Commonwealth personally upon the <span class="dictionary">owner</span>, <span class="dictionary">operator</span>, or other person charged with the weight violation, whether such <span class="dictionary">owner</span>, <span class="dictionary">operator</span>, or other person charged is a resident or <span class="dictionary">nonresident</span>.</p></section></text><history>1986, c. 588, &#xA7; 46.1-179.02; 1989, c. 727; 2011, cc. 62, 73.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
