59.1-9.4 - Certain activities not prohibited. - Virginia Statutes

§ 59.1-9.4. Certain activities not prohibited.

(a) No provision of this chapter shall be construed to make illegal:

(1) The activities of any labor or professional organization or of individualmembers thereof that are directed solely to labor or professional objectiveslegitimate under the laws of this Commonwealth or the United States.

(2) The activities of any agricultural or horticultural cooperativeorganization, or of individual members thereof, to the extent necessary toachieve the aims of the enacted laws of either this Commonwealth or theUnited States.

(3) The bona fide religious and charitable activities of any nonprofitcorporation, trust or organization established exclusively for religious orcharitable purposes.

(4) The activities of any nonprofit hospital, or of any officer, director oremployee thereof, that are directed to a reduction in services or animprovement in the quality of services to the extent that any such reductionor improvement will reduce, stabilize or limit cost increases.

(b) Nothing contained in this chapter shall make unlawful conduct that isauthorized, regulated or approved (1) by a statute of this Commonwealth, or(2) by an administrative or constitutionally established agency of thisCommonwealth or of the United States having jurisdiction of the subjectmatter and having authority to consider the anticompetitive effect, if any,of such conduct. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to alter orterminate any other applicable limitation, exemption or exclusion.

(1974, c. 545; 1979, c. 640.)