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Va. Code Ann. § 59.1-9.4

Certain activities not prohibited

Known as the Virginia Antitrust Act

The act spans §§ 59–59 (18 sections).

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Jeffrey W. Williams, Susan K. Williams on Their Own Behalf and as Representatives of a Class of Homeowners, J. Peter Bittner, Marsha H. Bittner, Mary S. Boyd, Richard E. Nault v. First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Arlington, Individually and as Rep. Of a Class of Lenders, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Arlington-Fairfax Savings and Loan Association, Herndon Federal Savings and Loan Association, Arthur G. Pote, Laura R. Pote, Angel Saltos, Beatriz De Saltos v. Washington-Lee Savings and Loan Association (1981)

Most recently applied in 78 Va. Cir. 177 - Fairfax County Water Authority v. City of Falls Church (March 2009)

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

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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.

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.

Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.