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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>365212</law_id><section_number>46.2-2011.15</section_number><catch_line>Department may seek judgment for refunds due public and collect and distribute same</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="101" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="5" identifier="V">Motor Carriers</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="20">Regulation of Passenger Carriers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Motor Carriers of Passengers -- Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any <span class="dictionary">motor carrier</span> or <span class="dictionary">broker</span>, upon the final decision of an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> from the action of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> prescribing rates, charges, tariffs, or classification of traffic, confirming or modifying the action of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, fails to refund in the manner and within the time prescribed in the notice of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> all amounts that the appealing carrier or <span class="dictionary">broker</span> may have collected, pending the <span class="dictionary">appeal</span>, in excess of that authorized by such final decision, upon notice to such carrier or <span class="dictionary">broker</span> by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of such final decision, then the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, after thirty days&#x2019; notice to any such carrier or <span class="dictionary">broker</span>, may, unless the amount required by such final decision is paid to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, seek judgment in the name of the Commonwealth, for the use of the <span class="dictionary">persons</span>, firms and corporations entitled to the same, against any such carrier or <span class="dictionary">broker</span> for the aggregate amount of such collections and for costs, and may enforce the amount of such judgment and costs by process of execution, as provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>. The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall, upon the collection of such judgment, forthwith distribute the amount thereof among the parties entitled thereto, respectively, in such manner as it may by its rules or regulations prescribe, and shall, upon the payment or collection of any such judgment, mark the same satisfied upon its records, and have the same entered satisfied on the <span class="dictionary">judgment lien docket</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> where the same may have been docketed; the satisfaction of any such judgment shall be a bar to any further action or recovery against any such carrier or <span class="dictionary">broker</span> to the extent of such recovery.</p></section></text><history>2001, c. 596; 2002, c. 861.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
