CODE OF VIRGINIA USE OF SINGULAR AND PLURAL; GENDER (§ 8.1a-106) In the Uniform Commercial Code, unless the statutory context otherwise requires: (1. words in the singular number include the plural, and those in the plural include the singular; and (2. words of any gender also refer to any other gender. HISTORY: 1964, c. 219, § 8.1-102; 2003, c. 353.