State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Virginia > Title-59-1 > Chapter-43 > 59-1-501-7§ 59.1-501.7. Legal recognition of electronic record and authentication; useof electronic agents.
(a) A record or authentication may not be denied legal effect orenforceability solely because it is in electronic form.
(b) This chapter does not require that a record or authentication begenerated, stored, sent, received, or otherwise processed by electronic meansor in electronic form.
(c) In any transaction, a person may establish requirements regarding thetype of authentication or record acceptable to that person.
(d) A person using an electronic agent that he has selected for making anauthentication, performance, or agreement, including manifestation of assent,is bound by the operations of the electronic agent, even if no individual wasaware of or reviewed the agent's operations or the results of the operations.
(2000, cc. 101, 996.)
