                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

 INJUNCTIVE RELIEF (§ 45.2-571)

A. Any person violating or failing, neglecting, or refusing to obey any closure
order may be compelled in a proceeding instituted by the Director in any
appropriate circuit court to obey such order and to comply with such order by
injunction or other appropriate relief.

B. Any person failing to abate any violation of the Act that has been cited in a
notice of violation within the time period provided in such notice for its
abatement may be compelled in a proceeding instituted by the Director in any
appropriate circuit court to abate such violation as provided in such notice and
to cease the operation of the mine at which such violation exists until the
violation has been abated, by injunction or other appropriate remedy.

C. The Director may file a bill of complaint with any appropriate circuit court
asking the court to temporarily or permanently enjoin a person from operating a
mine in the Commonwealth, to be granted upon finding by a preponderance of the
evidence that (i) a history of noncompliance at the mine operated by the person
demonstrates that he is not able or willing to operate a mine in compliance with
the provisions of the Act or (ii) a history of the issuance of closure orders
for the mine operated by the person demonstrates that he is not able or willing
to operate a mine in compliance with the provisions of the Act.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 45-8, 45-84; 1954, c. 191; 1966, c. 594, § 45.1-104;
1972, c. 784; 1974, c. 323; 1975, c. 520; 1978, c. 120; 1982, c. 118; 1990, c.
963; 1994, c. 28, § 45.1-161.93; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.