                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIMITATION ON CERTAIN ACTIONS FOR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF DEFECTIVE OR UNSAFE
CONDITION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO REAL PROPERTY (§ 8.01-250)

No action to recover for any injury to property, real or personal, or for bodily
injury or wrongful death, arising out of the defective and unsafe condition of
an improvement to real property, nor any action for contribution or indemnity
for damages sustained as a result of such injury, shall be brought against any
person performing or furnishing the design, planning, surveying, supervision of
construction, or construction of such improvement to real property more than
five years after the performance or furnishing of such services and
construction.
		The limitation prescribed in this section shall not apply to the manufacturer
or supplier of any equipment or machinery or other articles installed in a
structure upon real property, nor to any person in actual possession and in
control of the improvement as owner, tenant or otherwise at the time the
defective or unsafe condition of such improvement constitutes the proximate
cause of the injury or damage for which the action is brought; rather each such
action shall be brought within the time next after such injury occurs as
provided in §§ 8.01-243 and 8.01-246.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-24.2; 1964, c. 333; 1968, c. 103; 1973, c. 247; 1977,
c. 617.