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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71400</law_id><section_number>55.1-2516</section_number><catch_line>Wages</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="V">Miscellaneous</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="25">Virginia Disposition Of Unclaimed Property Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Definitions; Property Abandoned or Assumed Abandoned</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Unpaid wages, including wages represented by unpresented payroll checks owing in the ordinary course of the <span class="dictionary">holder</span>&#x2019;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></text><history>1983, c. 190, &#xA7; 55-210.8:2; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
