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This law was first created in 2000. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 101<\/a> and 996<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":[{"id":86497,"section_number":"59.1-506.1","catch_line":"Performance of contract in general","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-506.1\/"},{"id":82364,"section_number":"59.1-506.8","catch_line":"Copy; right to inspect; payment before inspection","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-506.8\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":75583,"section_number":"59.1-506.10","catch_line":"Copy; effect of acceptance; burden of establishing; notice of claims","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-506.10\/"},{"id":71340,"section_number":"59.1-506.6","catch_line":"Copy; delivery; tender of delivery","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-506.6\/"},{"id":54948,"section_number":"59.1-507.4","catch_line":"Copy; refusal of defective tender","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-507.4\/"},{"id":58037,"section_number":"59.1-507.7","catch_line":"Copy; revocation of acceptance","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-507.7\/"}],"permalink":{"id":262235,"object_type":"law","relational_id":68452,"identifier":"59.1-506.3","token":"59.1\/43\/6\/59.1-506.3","url":"\/59.1-506.3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-506.3\/","token":"59.1\/43\/6\/59.1-506.3","dublin_core":{"Title":"Submissions of information to satisfaction of party","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-506.3","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

If an agreement requires that submitted information be to the satisfaction of the recipient, the following rules apply:<\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Sections 59.1-506.6<\/a> through 59.1-506.10<\/a> and 59.1-507.4<\/a> through 59.1-507.7<\/a> do not apply to the submission. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> If the information is not satisfactory to the recipient and the parties engage in efforts to correct the deficiencies in a manner and over a time consistent with the ordinary standards of the business, trade, or industry, neither the efforts nor the passage of time required for the efforts is an acceptance or a refusal of the submission. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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4.<\/span> Silence and a failure to act in reference to a submission beyond a commercially reasonable time to respond entitle the submitting party<\/span> to demand, in a record delivered to the recipient, a decision on the submission. If the recipient fails to respond within a reasonable time after receipt of the demand, the submission is deemed to have been refused. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSUBMISSIONS OF INFORMATION TO SATISFACTION OF PARTY (\u00a7 59.1-506.3)\n\nIf an agreement requires that submitted information be to the satisfaction of\nthe recipient, the following rules apply:\n\n1. Sections 59.1-506.6 through 59.1-506.10 and 59.1-507.4 through 59.1-507.7 do\nnot apply to the submission.\n\n2. If the information is not satisfactory to the recipient and the parties\nengage in efforts to correct the deficiencies in a manner and over a time\nconsistent with the ordinary standards of the business, trade, or industry,\nneither the efforts nor the passage of time required for the efforts is an\nacceptance or a refusal of the submission.\n\n3. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (4), neither refusal nor acceptance\noccurs unless the recipient expressly refuses or accepts the submitted\ninformation, but the recipient may not use the submitted information before\nacceptance.\n\n4. Silence and a failure to act in reference to a submission beyond a\ncommercially reasonable time to respond entitle the submitting party to demand,\nin a record delivered to the recipient, a decision on the submission. If the\nrecipient fails to respond within a reasonable time after receipt of the demand,\nthe submission is deemed to have been refused.\n\nHISTORY: 2000, cc. 101, 996.","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}}