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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74507</law_id><section_number>46.2-1225</section_number><catch_line>Enforcement provisions in city or county parking ordinances</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-1172</reference><reference>46.2-1226</reference><reference>46.2-1227</reference><reference>46.2-1228</reference><reference>46.2-1229</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="12">Abandoned, Immobilized, Unattended and Trespassing Vehicles; Parking</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Trespassing Vehicles, Parking, and Towing</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any city or county <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> regulating parking under this article shall require:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> That uncontested payment of parking <span class="dictionary">citation</span> penalties be collected and accounted for by a local administrative official or officials who shall be compensated by the locality or by a private management company under <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with the locality; <a id="paragraph-267778" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1225/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> That contest by any person of any parking <span class="dictionary">citation</span> shall be certified on an appropriate form, to the appropriate district <span class="dictionary">court</span>, by such official or officials; and <a id="paragraph-267779" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1225/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> That the local administrative official or officials shall cause complaints, <span class="dictionary">summons</span>, or warrants to be issued for delinquent parking <span class="dictionary">citations</span>.
			Every action to collect unpaid parking <span class="dictionary">citation</span> penalties imposed for violation of a city or county <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> regulating parking under this article shall be commenced within three years of the date upon which such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> became delinquent. <a id="paragraph-267780" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1225/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1974, c. 403, &#xA7; 46.1-254.1; 1975, c. 440; 1977, c. 671; 1980, c. 355; 1989, c. 727; 1995, c. 459; 2014, c. 563.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
