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Sec. 22-271.1. Special processing provisions for overweight violations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all violations of any xveight limit as provided in this article or any permit issued in accordance with this article or with the Code of Virginia shall be processed in the following manner: (1) The officer charging the violation shall sm'ye a citation on the operator of the overweight vehicle. The citation shall be directed to the owner, operator, or other person responsible for the overweight violation as determined by the officer. Service of the citation on the vehicle operator shall constitute service of process upon the owner, operator, or other person charged with the weight violation. (2) The officer charging the violation shall cause the citation to be delivered or mailed by first-class mail to the Virginia Department of Transportation within t~venry-four hours after it is served. (3) The owner, operator, or other person charged with the weight violation shall, within twenty-one days after the citation is served upon the vekicle operator, either make full payment to the Department of Transportation of the civil penalty, liquidated damages, weighing fee, and processing fee as stated on the citation, or deliver ro the Department a written notice of his election to contest the overweight charge in court. (4) Failure of the owner, operator, or other person charged with the weight violation to timely deliver ro the Department of Transportation either payment in full of the uncontested civil penalty, liquidated damages, weighing fee, and processing fee or a notice of contest of the weight violation shall cause the Department to issue an administrative order of assessment against such person. A copy of the order shall be sent by first-class mail to the person charged with the weight violation. Any such administrative order shall have the same effect as a judgment for liquidated damages entered by a general district court. (5) Upon timely receipt of a notice of contest of an overweight charge, the Department of Transportation shall: Forward the citation to the general district court named in the citation and Send by first-class mail to the person charged with the weight violation, and to the officer who issued the citation, confirmation that the citation has been forwarded to the court for trial. (6) Notices and pleadings may be served by first-class mail sent to the address shown on the citation as the address of the person charged with the weight violation or, if none is shown, to the address of recerd for the person t.o whom the vehicle is registered.