CODE OF VIRGINIA

ELECTRONIC ERROR; CONSUMER DEFENSES (§ 59.1-502.14)

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: 2000, cc. 101, 996.