                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INVESTIGATION OF INSPECTION STATIONS; REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF PERMITS FOR
EMISSIONS INSPECTION STATIONS (§ 46.2-1185)

The Director shall investigate the operation of each emissions inspection
station and fleet emissions inspection station as the conditions and
circumstances of such operation indicate. He may require the holder of any
permit to submit such documentation required concerning the operation of such
inspection station. The Director may suspend or revoke and require the
forfeiture of any emissions inspection station permit if he finds that such
station is not operated in accordance with the provisions of this article and
the regulations adopted by the Board or the holder of such permit has failed or
refused to submit records or documentation required.
		If the Director finds that any permit holder has violated any provision of
this article or any order or regulation of the Board, after notice or a
reasonable attempt to give notice to the permit holder, the Director may,
without a hearing, suspend the permit of the emissions inspection station and
require the permit holder immediately to cease performing emissions inspections.
Within ten days of such action, the Director shall, after reasonable notice to
the permit holder as to the time and place thereof, hold a hearing to affirm,
modify, amend, or cancel the suspension and the requirement to cease performing
emissions inspections. With the consent of the permit holder, the Director may
forego such hearing and allow the suspension and requirement to cease performing
emissions inspections to stand. If the Director finds that a permit holder is
not complying with any such suspension or requirement to cease performing
emissions inspections, the Director may proceed in accordance with § 46.2-1187
or § 46.2-1187.2.
		Nothing in this section shall limit the Director&#8217;s authority to proceed
against the permit holder directly under § 46.2-1187 or § 46.2-1187.2.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 469, § 46.1-326.11; 1988, c. 806; 1989, c. 727; 1991, c. 531;
1993, cc. 995, 998; 1993, Sp. Sess., c. 2.