                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL ORDERS (§ 40.1-51.28)

A. The Commissioner shall have the power to issue special orders to:

   1. Owners who are permitting or causing asbestos NESHAP violations, to cease
   and desist from such violation;

   2. Owners who have violated or failed to comply with the terms and provisions
   of any order of the Commissioner, to comply with such terms and provisions;

   3. Owners who have contravened duly adopted asbestos NESHAP standards and
   regulations, to cease such contravention and to comply with air quality
   standards and policies; and

   4. Require any owner to comply with the provisions of this chapter.

B. Such special orders are to be issued only after a hearing with reasonable
notice to the affected owners of the time, place and purpose thereof, and they
shall become effective not less than five days after service as provided in
subsection C. Should the Commissioner find that any such owner is unreasonably
affecting the public health, safety or welfare, the health of animal or plant
life, or property, after a reasonable attempt to give notice, he shall declare a
state of emergency and may issue without a hearing an emergency special order
directing the owner to cease such pollution immediately, and shall within ten
days hold a hearing, after reasonable notice as to the time and place thereof to
the owner to affirm, modify, amend or cancel such emergency special order. If
the Commissioner finds that an owner who has been issued a special order or an
emergency special order is not complying with the terms thereof, he may proceed
in accordance with &#xA7; 40.1-51.35 or &#xA7; 40.1-51.39.

C. Any special order issued under the provisions of this section need not be
filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, but the owner to whom such special
order is directed shall be notified by certified mail, return receipt requested,
sent to the last known address of such owner, or by personal delivery by an
agent of the Commissioner, and the time limits specified shall be counted from
the date of receipt.

D. Nothing in this section or in &#xA7; 40.1-51.26 shall limit the
Commissioner&#8217;s authority to proceed against such owner directly under
&#xA7; 40.1-51.35 or &#xA7; 40.1-51.39 without the prior issuance of an order,
special, or otherwise.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 541.