This chapter may be cited as the Virginia Consumer Protection Act of 1977.
Va. Code Ann. § 59.1-196
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Known as the Virginia Consumer Protection Act
The act spans §§ 59.1-196 to 59.1-207 (15 sections).
Applied in 78 court decisions — leading case 36 Cal. 4th 148 - Discover Bank v. Superior Court (2005)
Most recently applied in Curtis v. Propel Prop. Tax Funding, LLC (February 2019)
1977, c. 635.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.