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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>365643</law_id><section_number>46.2-387</section_number><catch_line>Penalty for failure to forward record of conviction or of judgment for damages</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="2" identifier="II">Titling, Registration and Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Licensure of Drivers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="12" identifier="11">Accident Reports</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person required to forward to the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> a record of a <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> or of a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for <span class="dictionary">damages</span> as provided in this chapter who fails, refuses, or neglects so to do without reasonable cause shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span> and may be suspended or removed from office or otherwise disciplined for dereliction of duty.</p><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall call every such failure to the attention of the person guilty of the dereliction and to the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> of which he is an officer in cases of dereliction on the part of officers of <span class="dictionary">courts</span> and also to the appropriate attorney for the Commonwealth.</p><p>Discipline for dereliction of the duties provided by this chapter is cumulative to the other penalties prescribed and may be imposed by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over the official whose <span class="dictionary">negligence</span> is complained of.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-415; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-416; 1989, c. 727.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
