                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES (§ 5.1-146)

a. Any person knowingly and willfully violating any provision of this chapter,
or any rule, regulation, requirement, or order thereunder for which a penalty is
not otherwise herein provided, shall, after proper proceeding before the
Commission, and upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $100 for the
first offense and not more than $500 for any subsequent offense. Each day of
such violation shall constitute a separate offense.

b. Any person, whether carrier, shipper, consignee, or broker, or any officer,
employee, agent, or representative thereof, who shall knowingly offer, grant, or
give, or solicit, accept, or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination
in violation of any provision of this chapter, or who, by means of any false
statement or representation, or by the use of any false or fictitious bill, bill
of lading, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit,
deposition, lease, or bill of sale or by any other means or device, shall
knowingly and willfully assist, suffer or permit any person, natural or
artificial, to obtain transportation of passengers or property subject to this
chapter for less than the applicable rate, fare, or charge, or who shall
knowingly and willfully by any such means or otherwise fraudulently seek to
evade or defeat regulation as in this chapter provided for air carriers or
brokers, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be
fined not more than $500 for the first offense and not more than $2,000 for any
subsequent offense.

c. Any air carrier, or broker, or any officer, agent, employee, or
representative thereof who shall willfully fail or refuse to make a report to
the Commission as required by this chapter, or to keep accounts, records and
memoranda in the form and manner approved or prescribed by the Commission, or
shall knowingly and willfully falsify, destroy, mutilate, or alter any such
report, account, record, or memorandum, or shall knowingly and willfully file
any false report, account, record, or memorandum, shall, after proper proceeding
before the Commission and upon conviction thereof, be subject for each offense
to a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $5,000.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 56-201; 1970, c. 708.