19.2-341 - Penalties other than fines; how recovered; in what name; limitation of actions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 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 afine, unless it is otherwise expressly provided or would be inconsistent withthe manifest intention of the General Assembly, it shall be paid to theCommonwealth if prescribed by a statute and paid to the locality ifprescribed by an ordinance and recoverable by warrant, presentment,indictment, or information. Penalties imposed and costs taxed in any suchproceeding shall constitute a judgment and, if not paid at the time they areimposed, execution may issue thereon in the same manner as upon any othermonetary judgment. No such proceeding of any nature, however, shall bebrought or had for the recovery of such a penalty or costs due theCommonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, unless within twenty yearsfrom the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition of suchpenalty if imposed by a circuit court, or within ten years if imposed by ageneral district court.

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