                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REFUSAL OR NEGLECT TO MAKE REPORTS; OBSTRUCTING COMMISSION IN DISCHARGE OF
DUTIES; VIOLATIONS IN GENERAL (§ 56-483)

Every officer, agent or employee of any telephone company, who shall willfully
neglect or refuse to make and furnish any report lawfully required by the
Commission for the purposes of this chapter or who shall willfully or unlawfully
delay or obstruct the Commission in the discharge of the duties imposed upon it
by the Constitution or laws of this Commonwealth, or the rules, regulations and
requirements of the Commission, connected with the objects and purposes of this
chapter, shall be fined not exceeding $500 for each offense; and any telephone
company which violates any of the provisions of this chapter or refuses to
conform to or obey any lawful rule, order, regulation, or requirement of the
Commission relating to the provisions of this chapter may, when not otherwise
provided by law, be fined by the Commission in its discretion, in a sum not
exceeding $10,000 for each offense and each day such company or corporation
continues to violate any lawful rule, order or regulation prescribed by the
Commission shall be a separate offense. Such penalty shall be imposed and
enforced upon like proceedings and in like manner as are those prescribed for
the violation of law or the rules and regulations of the Commission by
transportation companies.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 4057; 2000, c. 986.