                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTAIN ACTIVITIES NOT PROHIBITED (§ 59.1-9.4)

A. No provision of this chapter shall be construed to make illegal:

   1. The activities of any labor or professional organization or of individual
   members thereof that are directed solely to labor or professional objectives
   legitimate under the laws of the Commonwealth or the United States.

   2. The activities of any agricultural or horticultural cooperative
   organization, or of individual members thereof, to the extent necessary to
   achieve the aims of the enacted laws of either the Commonwealth or the United
   States.

   3. The bona fide religious and charitable activities of any nonprofit
   corporation, trust or organization established exclusively for religious or
   charitable purposes.

B. Nothing contained in this chapter shall make unlawful conduct that is
authorized, regulated or approved (i) by a statute of the Commonwealth or (ii)
by an administrative or constitutionally established agency of the Commonwealth
or of the United States having jurisdiction of the subject matter and having
authority to consider the anticompetitive effect, if any, of such conduct.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to alter or terminate any other
applicable limitation, exemption or exclusion.

HISTORY: 1974, c. 545; 1979, c. 640; 2018, c. 574.