CODE OF VIRGINIA

PENALTIES OTHER THAN FINES; HOW RECOVERED; IN WHAT NAME; LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
(§ 19.2-341)

When any statute or ordinance prescribes a monetary penalty other than 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 paid to the locality if prescribed by an
ordinance and recoverable by warrant, presentment, indictment, or information.
Penalties imposed and costs taxed in any such proceeding 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. No such
proceeding of any nature, however, shall be brought or had for the recovery of
such a penalty or costs due the Commonwealth or any political subdivision
thereof, unless within twenty years from the date of the offense or delinquency
giving rise to imposition of such penalty if imposed by a circuit court, or
within ten years if imposed by a general district court.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-324; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1983, c. 499; 1995,
c. 438.