                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

NOTICE TO COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES; DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER
(§ 19.2-386.2:1)

If the property seized is a motor vehicle required by the motor vehicle laws of
Virginia to be registered, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall forthwith
notify the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles, by certified mail,
or electronically in a format prescribed by the Commissioner, of such seizure
and the motor number of the vehicle so seized, and the Commissioner shall
promptly certify to such attorney for the Commonwealth the name and address of
the person in whose name such vehicle is registered, together with the name and
address of any person holding a lien thereon. The Commissioner shall also
forthwith notify such registered owner and lienor, in writing, of the reported
seizure and the county or city wherein such seizure was made.
		The certificate of the Commissioner, concerning such registration and lien,
shall be received in evidence in any proceeding, either civil or criminal, under
any provision of this chapter, in which such facts may be material to the issue
involved.

HISTORY: 2012, cc. 283, 756; 2016, cc. 203, 423.