                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WAIVER PROHIBITED; CONFLICTS OF LAWS (§ 4.1-515)

A. No brewery shall require any wholesaler to waive compliance with any
provision of this chapter. Any contract or agreement purporting to do so is void
and unenforceable to the extent of the waiver or variance. Nothing in this
chapter shall limit or prohibit good faith settlements of disputes voluntarily
entered into between the parties.

B. Any contract between a brewery and a beer wholesaler pursuant to which the
wholesaler is to market the brewery&#8217;s products in the Commonwealth shall
be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth as the place of performance
notwithstanding the fact that such contract may have been made in another state
or the fact that such contract may provide that it is to be governed by the laws
of another state.

HISTORY: 1978, c. 579, § 4-118.16; 1989, c. 272; 1993, c. 866.