                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPORTS, RECORDS, ETC (§ 46.2-2011.16)

A. The Department is hereby authorized to require annual, periodical, or special
reports from motor carriers, except such as are exempt from the operation of the
provisions of this chapter; to prescribe the manner and form in which such
reports shall be made; and to require from such carriers specific answers to all
questions upon which the Department may deem information to be necessary. Such
reports shall be under oath whenever the Department so requires. The Department
may also require any motor carrier to file with it a true copy of each or any
contract, agreement, or arrangement between such carrier and any other carrier
or person in relation to the provisions of this chapter.

B. The Department may, in its discretion, prescribe (i) the forms of any and all
accounts, records, and memoranda to be kept by motor carriers and (ii) the
length of time such accounts, records, and memoranda shall be preserved, as well
as of the receipts and expenditures of money. The Department or its employees
shall at all times have access to all lands, buildings, or equipment of motor
carriers used in connection with their operations and also all accounts,
records, and memoranda, including all documents, papers, and correspondence now
or hereafter existing, and kept, or required to be kept, by motor carriers. The
Department and its employees shall have authority to inspect and examine any and
all such lands, buildings, equipment, accounts, records, and memoranda,
including all documents, papers, and correspondence now or hereafter existing
and kept or required to be kept by such carriers. These provisions shall apply
to receivers of carriers and to operating trustees and, to the extent deemed
necessary by the Department, to persons having control, direct or indirect, over
or affiliated with any motor carrier.

C. As used in this section the term &#8220;motor carriers&#8221; includes TNC
brokers, brokers, and excursion train operators.

HISTORY: 2001, c. 596; 2002, c. 861; 2017, c. 635.