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VA Code § 19.2-339 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-339. Word "fine" construed

Whenever the word "fine" is used in this chapter, it shall be construed to refer solely to the pecuniary penalty imposed by a court or jury upon a defendant who has been found guilty of a crime. The word "fine" shall not include other forfeitures, penalties, costs, amercements or the like, even though they follow as a consequence of conviction of crime.Code 1950, § 19.1-323; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-340 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-340. Fines; how recovered; in what name

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. Whenever any warrant or summons is issued pursuant to § 19.2-72 or 19.2-74 for an offense in violation of any county, city, or town ordinance that is similar to any provision of this Code, and such warrant or summons references the offense using both the citation corresponding to the county, city, or town ordinance and the specific provision of this Code, any fine prescribed by the county, city, or town ordinance shall be paid to the locality. 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.Code 1950, § 19.1-324; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1995, c. 438; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 524, 542.
VA Code § 19.2-340.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-340.1. Disposition of fines in criminal cases

When a law-enforcement officer of (i) the Department of State Police or (ii) any other division of the state government makes an arrest or issues a summons for a violation of a provision of the Code of Virginia, the person arrested or summoned shall be charged with a violation of that Code provision and shall not be charged with a substantially similar local ordinance. All fines collected upon conviction of any person so arrested or summoned shall be credited to the Literary Fund.2012, c. 749.
VA Code § 19.2-341 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-341. Penalties other than fines; how recovered; in what name; limitation of actions

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 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition of such penalty if imposed by a circuit court or within 30 years if imposed by a general district court.Code 1950, § 19.1-324; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1983, c. 499; 1995, c. 438; 2018, c. 736.
VA Code § 19.2-342 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-342. Where and in what court proceeding to be

In a proceeding under § 19.2-341, such warrant, presentment, indictment or information shall be in the county or city wherein the offense was committed or the delinquency occurred.Code 1950, § 19.1-325; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-343 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-343. Reserved

Reserved.
VA Code § 19.2-348 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-348. Attorneys for Commonwealth or clerks to superintend issue of executions, etc.

The attorney for the Commonwealth or the clerk of the circuit court shall superintend the issuing of all executions or judgments for fines and penalties going wholly or in part to the Commonwealth or a county, city or town, in the circuit court or appropriate district court of his county or city.Code 1950, § 19.1-341.1; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1983, c. 499; 1992, c. 623; 1994, c. 811.
VA Code § 19.2-349.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-349.1. Receipt of unpaid fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, or restitution by Department of Motor Vehicles

At the direction of the Committee on District Courts or at the request of a circuit court clerk, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court may enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles authorizing the Department of Motor Vehicles to receive, on behalf of a district or circuit court, payment of any delinquent fines, costs, forfeitures, and penalties, including any court-ordered restitution of a sum certain, imposed by a court for the violation of a state law or a local ordinance. However, in no case shall the Department of Motor Vehicles be authorized to establish an installment plan for any such payments or to receive partial payment of the full amount imposed by the court for the violation of a state law or a local ordinance.For each such payment it receives, the Department of Motor Vehicles may impose and collect a processing fee, to be used to defray the costs of the transaction to the Department. Such transaction fee shall be $2, unless payment is made by credit card or debit card and the merchant's fees and other transaction costs imposed by the card issuer are charged to the Department of Motor Vehicles, in which case the processing fee shall be the greater of (i) $2 or (ii) an amount not to exceed four percent of the amount of the payment. The Department may also collect any processing fee charged by a private vendor operating under contract to distribute to the court payments received by the Department. All processing fees imposed and collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles under this section shall be in addition to the other fees specified in this chapter. All such processing fees collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles shall be paid into the state treasury as provided in § 46.2-206 and used to meet the expenses of the Department of Motor Vehicles. The service charge provided under § 46.2-212.1 shall not be added to the processing fee authorized under this section. Other fees specified in this chapter, including those payable pursuant to collections contracts made by attorneys for the Commonwealth, shall not be diminished or offset due to receipt of payments by the Department of Motor Vehicles.2015, c. 228.
VA Code § 19.2-350 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-350. When sheriff not to receive fines

No sheriff or other law-enforcement officer shall receive any fine, penalty or costs imposed by a court not of record, except under process duly issued.Code 1950, § 19.1-342; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-351 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-351. How fines disposed of; informer

Although a law may allow an informer or person prosecuting to have part of a fine or penalty, the whole thereof shall go to the Commonwealth, unless the name of such informer or prosecutor be endorsed on, or written at the foot of, the presentment at the time it is made, or of the indictment before it is presented to the grand jury, or of the information before it is filed, or of the writ issued in the action, or the process on the warrant, or the notice of the motion before service of such writ, process, or notice.Code 1950, § 19.1-344; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-352 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-352. Officers to pay fines to clerks; default; forfeiture, etc.

Every sheriff or other officer receiving money under a writ of fieri facias or capias pro fine shall pay the same to the clerk of the court from which such process issued, on or before the return day of such process; and if such sheriff or other officer fail to pay the money, or fail to return such writ of fieri facias or capias pro fine, he shall, for every such failure, unless good cause be shown therefor, forfeit twenty dollars; and the clerk shall, within ten days from the return day of such process, report the failure to pay such money, or to return such process, to the attorney for the Commonwealth, who shall proceed at once against such officer in default to recover such money and the forfeiture aforesaid.Code 1950, § 19.1-345; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-353 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-353. Certain fines paid into Literary Fund

The proceeds of all fines and penalties collected for offenses committed against the Commonwealth, and directed by Article VIII, Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia to be set apart as a part of a perpetual and permanent literary fund, shall be paid and collected only in lawful money of the United States, and shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the Literary Fund, and shall be used for no other purpose whatsoever.Code 1950, § 19.1-346; 1960, c. 366; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 1; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-353.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-353.1. Fieri facias and proceedings thereon

Any writ of fieri facias issued under this chapter and the proceedings on the same shall conform to the writ of fieri facias and proceedings thereon under Article 19 (§ 8.01-196 et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01.Code 1950, § 19.1-347; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-353.5 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-353.5. Interest on fines and costs

A. For purposes of this section, "incarcerated" or "incarceration" means confinement in a local or regional correctional facility, juvenile correctional facility, state correctional facility, residential detention center, or facility operated pursuant to the Corrections Private Management Act (§ 53.1-261 et seq.).B. No interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction (i) for a period of 180 days following the date of the final judgment imposing such fine or costs; (ii) during any period the defendant is incarcerated; and (iii) for a period of 180 days following the date of the defendant's release from incarceration if the sentence includes an active term of incarceration.C. A person who owes fines and costs on which interest has accrued during a period of incarceration may move any court in which he owes fines and costs to waive the interest that accrued on such fines and costs during such period of incarceration. Upon certification of the period of incarceration by the superintendent, warden, or other official in charge of a correctional facility on a form developed by the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, such interest shall be waived.D. In no event shall interest accrue during any period in which a fine, costs, or both a fine and costs are being paid in deferred or installment payments pursuant to an order of the court. Whenever interest on any unpaid fine or costs accrues, it shall accrue at the judgment rate of interest set forth in § 6.2-302.1987, c. 648; 1988, cc. 106, 508; 1995, cc. 375, 566; 1996, c. 226; 2016, c. 282; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 388.
VA Code § 19.2-355 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-355. Petition of defendant

(a) The court may require any defendant entering a deferred, modified deferred, or installment payment agreement to file a petition, under oath, with the court, upon a form provided by the court, setting forth the financial condition of the defendant.(b) Such form shall be a questionnaire, and shall include, but shall not be limited to: the name and residence of the defendant; his occupation, if any; his family status and the number of persons dependent upon him; his monthly income; whether or not his dependents are employed and, if so, their approximate monthly income; his banking accounts, if any; real estate owned by the defendant, or any interest he may have in real estate; income produced therefrom; any independent income accruing to the defendant; tangible and intangible personal property owned by the defendant, or in which he may have an interest; and a statement listing the approximate indebtedness of the defendant to other persons. Such form shall also include a payment plan of the defendant. At the end of such form there shall be printed in bold face type, in a distinctive color the following: THIS STATEMENT IS MADE UNDER OATH, ANY FALSE STATEMENT OF A MATERIAL FACT TO ANY QUESTION CONTAINED HEREIN SHALL CONSTITUTE PERJURY UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF § 18.2-434 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA. THE MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR PERJURY IS CONFINEMENT IN THE PENITENTIARY FOR A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS. A copy of the petition shall be retained by the defendant.(c) If the defendant is unable to read or write, the court, or the clerk, may assist the defendant in completing the petition and require him to affix his mark thereto. The consequences of the making of a false statement shall be explained to such defendant.Code 1950, § 19.1-347.2; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 250; 1975, c. 495; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 388.
VA Code § 19.2-356 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-356. Payment of fine or costs as condition of probation or suspension of sentence

If a defendant is placed on probation, or imposition or execution of sentence is suspended, or both, the court may make payment of any fine, or costs, or fine and costs, either on a certain date or on an installment basis, a condition of probation or suspension of sentence.Code 1950, § 19.1-347.3; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 250; 1975, c. 495; 1987, c. 238.
VA Code § 19.2-357 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-357. Requiring that defendant be of peace and good behavior until fine and costs are paid

If a defendant is permitted to pay a fine or fine and costs on an installment basis, or under such other conditions as the court shall fix under the provisions of § 19.2-354, the court may require as a condition that the defendant be of peace and good behavior until the fine and costs are paid.Code 1950, § 19.1-347.4; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 250; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-359 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-359. Official receipts to be given for fines

Every officer collecting a fine, fine and costs or costs when no fine is imposed shall give an official receipt therefor to the person making the payment, and the clerk of the court shall use the official receipt in receipting to a court not of record for payments made to the clerk; and when the fine, fine and costs or costs are collected by execution, the clerk shall receipt to the officer making payment to him upon the official receipts.Code 1950, § 19.1-348; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-360 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-360. Forms of receipts; distribution; record of disposition

The Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court shall prescribe and prepare forms of official receipts for fines and distribute them to the clerks of the circuit courts and to the clerks of the district courts for their use. A record of the disposition of each receipt form shall be maintained as prescribed by the Executive Secretary.Code 1950, § 19.1-349; 1960, c. 366; 1972, c. 97; 1975, c. 495; 1977, c. 465.
VA Code § 19.2-361 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-361. Misuse, misappropriation or willful failure to account for fines is embezzlement

If any officer misuse, misappropriate, or willfully fail to return or account for, a fine collected by him he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and shall be punished as for the embezzlement of public funds and the failure, without good cause, to produce or account for any receipt form received by him shall be prima facie evidence of his embezzlement of the amount represented thereby.Code 1950, § 19.1-350; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-362 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-362. Court not to remit fine or penalty, other than fine for contempt, except as provided in § 19.2-358

No court shall remit any fine or penalty, except for a contempt, which the court during the same term may remit either wholly or in part, and except as provided in § 19.2-358. This section shall not impair the judicial power of the court to set aside a verdict or judgment, or to grant a new trial.Code 1950, § 19.1-351; 1960, c. 366; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 250; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-363 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-363. Authority of Governor to grant relief from fines and penalties

The Governor shall have power, in his discretion, to remit, in whole or in part, fines and penalties, in all cases of felony or misdemeanor, after conviction, whether paid into the state treasury or not, except when judgment shall have been rendered against any person for contempt of court, for nonperformance of or disobedience to some order, decree or judgment of such court, or when the fine or penalty has been imposed by the State Corporation Commission, or when the prosecution has been carried on by the House of Delegates. The Governor may, in his discretion, remit, refund or release, in whole or in part, any forfeited recognizance or any judgment rendered thereon, provided, in the opinion of the Governor, the evidence accompanying such application warrants the granting of the relief asked for. But the provisions of the three following sections and § 19.2-368 shall be complied with as a condition precedent to such action by the Governor; provided, that when the party against whom the fine or penalty has been imposed and judgment rendered therefor has departed this life leaving a spouse or children surviving, the Governor may remit such fine or penalty upon the certificate of the judge of the circuit court of the county or city wherein such fine or penalty was imposed and judgment rendered, that to enforce the same against the estate, real or personal, of the decedent, would impose hardship upon the spouse or children. In any case when the Governor remits, in whole or in part, a fine or penalty, if the same has been paid into the state treasury, on the order of the Governor such fine or penalty or so much thereof as is remitted shall be paid by the State Treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller, out of the fund into which the fine or penalty was paid.Code 1950, § 19.1-352; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-364 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-364. Petition for relief; in what court filed; notice to attorney for Commonwealth

Such person or his personal representative, as the case may be, shall file a petition in the clerk's office of the circuit court of the county or city wherein such fine or penalty was imposed, or such liability established, at least fifteen days before the term of the court at which the same is to be heard, and shall set forth the grounds upon which relief is asked. Ten days' notice thereof in writing shall be given to the attorney for the Commonwealth of the county or city.Code 1950, § 19.1-353; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-365 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-365. Duties of attorney for Commonwealth upon filing of such petition

The attorney for the Commonwealth, at or before the hearing of such petition, shall file an answer to the same. He shall cause to be summoned such witnesses and shall introduce all such testimony as may be necessary and proper to protect the interest of the Commonwealth; and the petitioner may cause to be summoned such witnesses and shall introduce all such testimony as may be necessary and proper to protect his interest.Code 1950, § 19.1-354; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-366 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-366. Duty of court in which petition filed; certificate and opinion

The court wherein such petition is filed shall hear all such testimony as may be offered, either by the petitioner or attorney for the Commonwealth, and after the evidence has been heard shall cause to be made out by the clerk of the court a certificate of the facts proved, and file with the same an opinion, in writing, as to the propriety of granting the relief prayed for.Code 1950, § 19.1-355; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
VA Code § 19.2-367 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 21 - Recovery of Fines and Penalties|§ 19.2-367. Proceedings to be according to common law

All proceedings had before the court under the provisions of the three preceding sections shall be according to the course of the common-law practice, except that no formal pleadings shall be necessary.Code 1950, § 19.1-356; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.