56-260.1 - Contract provisions exempting company from liability unlawful. - Virginia Statutes

§ 56-260.1. Contract provisions exempting company from liability unlawful.

No contract for an easement of right-of-way for a pipeline, power ortelephone line, sewer, main or similar works shall contain any provisionwhich purports to exempt the corporation erecting, laying or installing thesame from liability for injuries sustained by any person or property byreason of the laying, constructing, maintaining, operating, repairing,altering, replacing or removal of, or any failure or defect in, such line,sewer, main or works. Any such provision in any such contract is herebydeclared to be against public policy and shall be null and void andunenforceable; provided, that this provision shall not apply as to any causeof action arising prior to June 26, 1964.

(1964, c. 523.)