                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 VIOLATIONS; PENALTIES (§ 45.2-1608)

A. Any person who violates or refuses, fails, or neglects to comply with any
regulation or order of the Board, Director, or Inspector, any condition of a
permit, or any provision of this chapter is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

B. In addition, any person who violates any regulation or order of the Board,
Director, or Inspector, any condition of a permit, or any provision of this
chapter shall upon such finding by an appropriate circuit court be assessed a
civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each day of such violation. All civil
penalties under this section shall be recovered in a civil action brought by the
Attorney General in the name of the Commonwealth. The court shall direct that
all civil penalties assessed under this section be paid into the treasury of the
county or city where the gas, oil, or geophysical operation determined by the
court to be in violation is located.

C. The Board, with the consent of the gas, oil, or geophysical operator, may
provide in an order issued by the Board against such operator for the payment of
civil penalties for past violations in specific sums not to exceed the limit
specified in subsection B. Such civil penalties shall be instead of any
appropriate civil penalty that could be imposed under this section and shall not
be subject to the provisions of &#xA7; 2.2-514. Civil penalties collected under
this section shall be paid into the treasury of the county or city where the
gas, oil, or geophysical operation subject to the order issued by the Board is
located.

HISTORY: 1982, c. 347, §§ 45.1-358, 45.1-360; 1984, c. 590; 1990, c. 92, §
45.1-361.8; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.