Certificates, permits, registrations, and licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be effective from the dates specified therein and shall remain in effect until terminated as herein provided. The Commission may at any time, by its order duly entered after hearing held after notice to the holder of any such certificate, permit, registration, or license and an opportunity to such holder to be heard at which it shall be proved that such holder has willfully made any misrepresentation of a material fact in obtaining such certificate, permit, registration, or license, or has willfully violated or refused to observe the laws of this Commonwealth touching such certificate, permit, registration, or license, or any of the terms of his certificate, permit, registration, or license, or any of the Commission's proper orders, rules, or regulations, impose a penalty not exceeding $1,000, which may be collected by the process of the Commission as provided by law; or the Commission may suspend, revoke, alter, or amend any such certificate, permit, registration, or license for any of the causes set forth above. But no such certificate, permit, registration, or license shall be revoked, altered, or amended (except upon application of the holder thereof) unless the holder thereof shall willfully fail to comply, within a reasonable time to be fixed by the Commission, with the lawful order of the Commission or with the lawful rule or regulation of the Commission, or with the term, condition, or limitation of such certificate, permit, registration, or license, found by the Commission to have been violated by such holder.
Proceedings for the imposition of any penalty provided for in this section may be commenced upon the complaint of any person or upon the Commission's own initiative.
From any order of the Commission suspending, revoking, altering or amending any certificate, permit, registration, or license, the holder thereof shall have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia, as a matter of right, as in other cases of appeals from the Commission.
Code 1950, § 56-167; 1970, c. 708; 2017, c. 793.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 5.1-90.1. Incidental transportation of certain passengers and property by motor vehicle
§ 5.1-91. Air carriers to comply with chapter; subject to regulation by Commission
§ 5.1-92. Regulation by Commission; reports; prevention of discrimination
§ 5.1-93. Regulation of brokers
§ 5.1-94. Required certificate of public convenience and necessity
§ 5.1-95. Application for certificate; notices, etc.
§ 5.1-96. Fees in connection with certificates
§ 5.1-97. Hearing on application; action of Commission
§ 5.1-98. Factors to be considered by the Commission in granting certificates
§ 5.1-99. Occasional deviations from authorized routes; emergency landings
§ 5.1-100. Transportation of baggage, mail, etc., with passengers
§ 5.1-101. Chartered parties covered by common carriers
§ 5.1-102. Schedule changes require Commission approval
§ 5.1-108. When broker's license required
§ 5.1-109. Application for broker's license
§ 5.1-110. Hearing on such application and action thereon
§ 5.1-111. Authority over brokers; bond
§ 5.1-112. Broker's license not substitute for other certificates or permits required
§ 5.1-114. Transfer or lease of certificate
§ 5.1-115. No value allowed for certificates
§ 5.1-117. Bonds or insurance to be kept in force
§ 5.1-119. Condition of bond, etc.
§ 5.1-120. Effect of failure to give security
§ 5.1-122. Duties of carriers of property as to service, rates and regulations
§ 5.1-123. Through routes, joint rates, etc., not required may be established
§ 5.1-124. Undue preference not permitted
§ 5.1-125. Complaints; action of Commission thereon or on own initiative
§ 5.1-126. Establishment of through routes, etc., by Commission
§ 5.1-127. Prescribing divisions of joint rates
§ 5.1-128. New rate schedule; hearing; suspension; action thereon
§ 5.1-129. Goodwill, certificate, etc., not element of value in rate making
§ 5.1-130. Criteria for establishment of rates
§ 5.1-131. Other remedies not extinguished
§ 5.1-132. Tariffs showing rates, fares and charges, etc.
§ 5.1-133. Unlawful to charge other than published tariff
§ 5.1-134. Changes in tariffs, etc.
§ 5.1-135. No transportation except when rates have been filed and published
§ 5.1-136. Free passes or reduced rates
§ 5.1-137. Payment of rates and charges before delivery of freight
§ 5.1-138. Liability for additional charges
§ 5.1-139. Commission may enter judgment for refunds due public and collect and distribute same
§ 5.1-140. Unlawful to disclose certain information
§ 5.1-142. Reports, records, etc.
§ 5.1-143. Reports of accidents
§ 5.1-144. Certificate or permit holder not relieved of liability for negligence
§ 5.1-146. Violations and penalties
§ 5.1-147. Disposition of fees or sums collected
§ 5.1-148. Employees of Commission not to have interest in carriers
§ 5.1-149. No property rights in airspace conferred by chapter
§ 5.1-150. Licenses, registrations, taxes, etc., not affected
§ 5.1-151. Right to amend, revoke, etc., rights, certificates or franchises