                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PURPOSE OF CHAPTER (§ 59.1-9.2)

The purpose of this chapter is to promote the free market system in the economy
of this Commonwealth by prohibiting restraints of trade and monopolistic
practices that act or tend to act to decrease competition. This chapter shall be
construed in accordance with the legislative purpose to implement fully the
Commonwealth&#8217;s police power to regulate commerce.

HISTORY: 1974, c. 545.