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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82679</law_id><section_number>46.2-644</section_number><catch_line>Levy of execution</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-633.2</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="II">Titling, Registration and Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Titling and Registration of Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Titling Vehicles</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">levy</span> made by virtue of an execution, fieri facias, or other <span class="dictionary">court order</span>, on a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span>, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, or <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span> for which a certificate of title has been issued by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, shall constitute a <span class="dictionary">lien</span>, subsequent to security interests previously recorded by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> and subsequent to security interests in inventory held for sale and perfected as otherwise permitted by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, when the officer making the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> reports to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> on forms provided by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, that the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> has been made and that the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span>, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, or <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span> levied on has been seized by him. If the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is thereafter satisfied or should the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span>, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, or <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span> thus levied on and seized thereafter be released by the officer, he shall immediately report that <span class="dictionary">fact</span> to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>. Any <span class="dictionary">owner</span> who, after the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> and seizure by an officer and before the officer reports the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> and seizure to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, shall fraudulently assign or transfer his title to or interest in a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span>, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, or <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span> or cause its certificate of title to be assigned or transferred or cause a security interest to be shown on its certificate of title shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-77; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-77; 1966, c. 558; 1972, c. 408; 1989, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
