54.1-104 - Suspension of license, certificate, registration, or authority for dishonor of fee payment; reinstatement. - Virginia Statutes

§ 54.1-104. Suspension of license, certificate, registration, or authorityfor dishonor of fee payment; reinstatement.

The Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and the Departmentof Health Professions may suspend the license, certificate, registration orauthority it has issued any person who submits a check, money draft orsimilar instrument for payment of a fee required by statute or regulationwhich is not honored by the bank or financial institution named. Thesuspension shall become effective ten days following delivery by certifiedmail of written notice of the dishonor and the impending suspension to suchperson's address. Upon notification of suspension, the person may reinstatethe license, certificate, registration or authority upon payment of the feeand penalties required under statute or regulation. Suspension under thisprovision shall be exempt from the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 etseq.).

(1980, c. 433, § 54-1.2:1; 1988, c. 765; 1993, c. 499.)