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§ 59.1-502.14 Electronic error; consumer defenses

a. In this section, “electronic error” means an error in an electronic message created by a consumer using an information processing system if a reasonable method to detect and correct or avoid the error was not provided.

b. In an automated transaction, a consumer is not bound by an electronic message that the consumer did not intend and which was caused by an electronic error, if the consumer:

1. promptly on learning of the error:

A. notifies the other party of the error; and

B. causes delivery to the other party or, pursuant to reasonable instructions received from the other party, delivers to another person or destroys all copies of the information; and

2. has not used, or received any benefit or value from, the information or caused the information or benefit to be made available to a third party.

c. If subsection (b) does not apply, the effect of an electronic error is determined by other law.

History

This law was first created in 2000. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 101 and 996 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2000, cc. 101, 996.

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