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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 190 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1983 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0712\">712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":248011,"object_type":"law","relational_id":71400,"identifier":"55.1-2516","token":"55.1\/V\/25\/1\/55.1-2516","url":"\/55.1-2516\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-2516\/","token":"55.1\/V\/25\/1\/55.1-2516","dublin_core":{"Title":"Wages","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-2516","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Unpaid wages, including wages represented by unpresented payroll checks owing in the ordinary course of the <span class=\"dictionary\">holder<\/span>&#8217;s business, that have remained unclaimed by the <span class=\"dictionary\">owner<\/span> for more than one year after such unpaid wages became <span class=\"dictionary\">payable<\/span> are presumed abandoned.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nWAGES (\u00a7 55.1-2516)\n\nUnpaid wages, including wages represented by unpresented payroll checks owing in\nthe ordinary course of the holder&#8217;s business, that have remained unclaimed\nby the owner for more than one year after such unpaid wages became payable are\npresumed abandoned.\n\nHISTORY: 1983, c. 190, \u00a7 55-210.8:2; 2019, c. 712.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}