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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77813</law_id><section_number>8.01-255</section_number><catch_line>Time for presenting claim against Commonwealth</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-2816</reference><reference>2.2-816</reference><reference>43-40</reference><reference>55.1-2438</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Limitations of Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Miscellaneous Limitations Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any pecuniary claim authorized to be presented under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="To whom claims presented; Comptroller to furnish forms" href="/2.2-814/">2.2-814</a> and <a class="law" title="Claims to be examined and forwarded to Comptroller; what Comptroller may allow" href="/2.2-815/">2.2-815</a> shall be barred unless presented in writing to the comptroller or other authorized <span class="dictionary">person</span> no later than five years after the right to such claim shall arise. If such claim be not thus barred, any <span class="dictionary">action</span> thereon against the Commonwealth must be brought no later than three years after disallowance of such claim in whole or in part.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-752; 1966, c. 452; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
