                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACTION TO BE BROUGHT WITHIN CERTAIN TIME (§ 59.1-207.16)

Any action brought under this chapter shall be commenced within the lemon law
rights period. However, any consumer whose good faith attempts to settle the
dispute pursuant to the informal dispute settlement provisions of § 59.1-207.15
have not resulted in the satisfactory resolution of the matter shall have (i) 12
months from the date of the final action taken by the manufacturer in its
dispute settlement procedure, if such procedure was resorted to within the lemon
law rights period, or (ii) the original lemon law rights period, whichever is
longer, to file an action in the proper court.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 603; 1990, c. 772; 1999, c. 387; 2022, c. 411.