§ 8-4. Penalties.  


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  • Violations of this article shall result in the following civil penalties:

    (a)

    Fifty dollars for the first offense; and

    (b)

    Two hundred dollars for subsequent violations not arising from the same set of operative facts within twelve months of the first offense.

    Every three-day period during which the same violation is found to have existed shall constitute a separate offense. In the event three civil penalties have previously been imposed on the same defendant for the same or similar violations, not arising from the same set of operative facts within a twenty-four-month period, such violations shall be a Class 3 misdemeanor. (9-19-19.)

    (STATE LAW REFERENCE—Code of Virginia, Sec. 15.2-901.)