                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DURATION OF CERTIFICATES, REGISTRATIONS, ETC.; SUSPENSION, REVOCATION, OR
AMENDMENT; PENALTIES (§ 5.1-113)

Certificates, permits, registrations, and licenses issued under the provisions
of this chapter shall be effective from the dates specified therein and shall
remain in effect until terminated as herein provided. The Commission may at any
time, by its order duly entered after hearing held after notice to the holder of
any such certificate, permit, registration, or license and an opportunity to
such holder to be heard at which it shall be proved that such holder has
willfully made any misrepresentation of a material fact in obtaining such
certificate, permit, registration, or license, or has willfully violated or
refused to observe the laws of this Commonwealth touching such certificate,
permit, registration, or license, or any of the terms of his certificate,
permit, registration, or license, or any of the Commission&#8217;s proper
orders, rules, or regulations, impose a penalty not exceeding $1,000, which may
be collected by the process of the Commission as provided by law; or the
Commission may suspend, revoke, alter, or amend any such certificate, permit,
registration, or license for any of the causes set forth above. But no such
certificate, permit, registration, or license shall be revoked, altered, or
amended (except upon application of the holder thereof) unless the holder
thereof shall willfully fail to comply, within a reasonable time to be fixed by
the Commission, with the lawful order of the Commission or with the lawful rule
or regulation of the Commission, or with the term, condition, or limitation of
such certificate, permit, registration, or license, found by the Commission to
have been violated by such holder.
		Proceedings for the imposition of any penalty provided for in this section may
be commenced upon the complaint of any person or upon the Commission&#8217;s own
initiative.
		From any order of the Commission suspending, revoking, altering or amending
any certificate, permit, registration, or license, the holder thereof shall have
the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia, as a matter of right, as
in other cases of appeals from the Commission.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 56-167; 1970, c. 708; 2017, c. 793.