                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPORTS, RECORDS, ETC (§ 46.2-2125)

A. The Department is hereby authorized to require annual, periodical, or special
reports from motor carriers, except such as are exempted 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 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.

HISTORY: 2001, c. 596; 2017, cc. 790, 815.