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Statutes > Virginia > Title-3-2 > Chapter-4 > 3-2-407§ 3.2-407. Liens.
If a person who is required to pay a civil penalty under this chapter failsto do so, the Commissioner may transmit a true copy of the order assessingsuch penalty to the clerk of the circuit court of any county or city whereinit is ascertained that the person owing such penalty has any estate; and theclerk to whom such copy is transmitted shall record it, as a judgment isrequired by law to be recorded, and shall index it in the name of theCommonwealth as well as in the name of the person owing the civil penalty,and thereupon there shall be a lien in favor of the Commonwealth on theproperty within such locality of the person owing the civil penalty in theamount of the civil penalty. The Commissioner and Board may collect civilpenalties that are owed in the same manner as provided by law in respect tojudgment of a circuit court.
(1996, c. 773, § 10.1-559.8; 2008, c. 860.)
