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If the Board determines that a respondent is guilty of the violation complained of, the Board shall determine the amount of the monetary penalty for the violation, which shall not exceed $2,500 for each violation. The penalty may be sued for and recovered in the name of the Commonwealth.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1414046,"text":"Any person who engages in bail recovery in the Commonwealth without a valid license issued by the Department is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. A third conviction under this section is a Class 6 felony.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1,"next_prefix":""},"1":{"id":1414047,"text":"Any person who violates any statute or Board regulation who is not criminally prosecuted shall be subject to the monetary penalty provided in this section. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0397\">397<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1511737,"object_type":"law","relational_id":378656,"identifier":"9.1-186.13","token":"9.1\/1\/12\/9.1-186.13","url":"\/9.1-186.13\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/9.1-186.13\/","token":"9.1\/1\/12\/9.1-186.13","dublin_core":{"Title":"Penalties, criminal and monetary","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 9.1-186.13","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Any person who engages in <span class=\"dictionary\">bail recovery<\/span> in the Commonwealth without a valid license issued by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> is guilty of a Class 1 <span class=\"dictionary\">misdemeanor<\/span>. 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The penalty may be sued for\nand recovered in the name of the Commonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 397.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}