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This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 715<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1488801,"object_type":"law","relational_id":373193,"identifier":"59.1-478","token":"59.1\/42\/59.1-478","url":"\/59.1-478\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-478\/","token":"59.1\/42\/59.1-478","dublin_core":{"Title":"Fingerprinting in connection with business, commercial or financial transaction","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-478","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Whenever any person requires another to furnish a fingerprint or fingerprints in conjunction with any business, commercial or financial transaction, unless the parties otherwise agree, within twenty-one days of the transaction’s completion or termination the original record of such prints and all copies of such prints, including electronic or facsimile copies shall be (i) returned to the person providing such prints or (ii) destroyed by the person requiring and obtaining such prints.<\/p>

The provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of fingerprints affixed to instruments governed by Titles 8.3A and 8.4.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nFINGERPRINTING IN CONNECTION WITH BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL OR FINANCIAL TRANSACTION\n(\u00a7 59.1-478)\n\nWhenever any person requires another to furnish a fingerprint or fingerprints in\nconjunction with any business, commercial or financial transaction, unless the\nparties otherwise agree, within twenty-one days of the transaction’s\ncompletion or termination the original record of such prints and all copies of\nsuch prints, including electronic or facsimile copies shall be (i) returned to\nthe person providing such prints or (ii) destroyed by the person requiring and\nobtaining such prints.\n\nThe provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of fingerprints\naffixed to instruments governed by Titles 8.3A and 8.4.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 715.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}