Bill Text: VA HB699 | 2011 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Uniform Commercial Code; prohibits inclusion in a sales agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-12-02 - Senate: Left in Commerce and Labor [HB699 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2011-HB699-Comm_Sub.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 699 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on March 1, 2010) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Bulova) A BILL to amend and reenact § 8.2-719 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Uniform Commercial Code; sales; limitations on damages.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8.2-719 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.2-719. Contractual modification or limitation of remedy.

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and, (3), and (4) of this section and of the preceding section [§ 8.2-718] § 8.2-718 on liquidation and limitation of damages,

(a) the agreement may provide for remedies in addition to or in substitution for those provided in this title and may limit or alter the measure of damages recoverable under this title, as by limiting the buyer's remedies to return of the goods and repayment of the price or to repair and replacement of nonconforming goods or parts; and

(b) resort to a remedy as provided is optional unless the remedy is expressly agreed to be exclusive, in which case it is the sole remedy.

(2) Where circumstances cause an exclusive or limited remedy to fail of its essential purpose, remedy may be had as provided in this act.

(3) Consequential damages may be limited or excluded unless the limitation or exclusion is unconscionable. Limitation of consequential damages for injury to the person in the case of consumer goods is prima facie unconscionable but limitation of damages where the loss is commercial is not.

(4) In consumer transactions as defined in § 59.1-198, an agreement may not provide for a limitation or exclusion of consequential damages that limits or excludes the warrantor's obligation to provide the costs of repair or the completion of work, if the repair or completion of work is necessitated by defective materials or workmanship. This shall not apply to damages resulting from the repair, service, alteration, replacement, installation, completion of work, or installation of materials prohibited by the agreement.