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The Commission finds that a Virginia licensee committed several separate acts in one enforcement matter, each carrying its own civil penalty. What aggregate limit applies to the penalties for those acts?
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Why B is correct
Va. Code § 38.2-218 caps the civil penalties at $10,000 in the aggregate per act. Even where the Commission counts multiple violations and the per-act penalties of $1,000 or $5,000 would stack higher, the exposure for the acts stops at the aggregate ceiling. The cap bounds enforcement exposure while still allowing the per-act figures to bite when the misconduct is knowing and repeated within the counted acts.
Why the other options are wrong
- A) $5,000 is the knowing-violation per-act maximum under Va. Code § 38.2-218, not the aggregate limit.
- C) $100,000 belongs to a different regime entirely and is far above Virginia's aggregate cap for these civil penalties.
- D) $20,000 is not a penalty figure in Virginia's framework.
Memory hook
Per act $1,000 or $5,000, but the meter stops at $10,000.