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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83330</law_id><section_number>46.2-2161</section_number><catch_line>Payment of tariff charges; payment of specific charges</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-2163</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="V">Motor Carriers</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="21">Regulation of Property Carriers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Household Goods Carriers</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The carrier will not deliver or relinquish <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of any property transported by it until all tariff rates and charges thereon have been paid in cash, postal money <span class="dictionary">order</span>, traveler&#x2019;s check, cashier&#x2019;s check, bank treasurer&#x2019;s check, bank wire transfer, or approved credit card, except where other satisfactory arrangements have been made between the carrier and the consignor or consignee. <a id="paragraph-298567" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-2161/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Carrier may require prepayment of charges for a specific service in full or in part on or before commencing performance of such <span class="dictionary">services</span> as requested by shipper. <a id="paragraph-298568" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-2161/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Estimated charges may be bound or fixed so that the price estimated may not be exceeded with the exception that any accessorial tariff charges incurred at destination that are not known to the carrier until actual delivery of the shipment and a sight survey reveals that additional charges are necessary to effect delivery as published in the carrier&#x2019;s tariff. <a id="paragraph-298569" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-2161/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2001, c. 596; 2006, c. 609.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
