CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINES; HOW RECOVERED; IN WHAT NAME (§ 19.2-340)

When any statute or ordinance prescribes a fine, unless it is otherwise
expressly provided or would be inconsistent with the manifest intention of the
General Assembly, it shall be paid to the Commonwealth if prescribed by a
statute and recoverable by presentment, indictment, information or warrant and
paid to the locality if prescribed by an ordinance and recoverable by warrant.
Fines imposed and costs taxed in a criminal or traffic prosecution, including a
prosecution for a violation of an ordinance adopted pursuant to § 46.2-1220,
for committing an offense shall constitute a judgment and, if not paid at the
time they are imposed, execution may issue thereon in the same manner as upon
any other monetary judgment, subject to the period of limitations provided by §
19.2-341.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-324; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1995, c. 438.