59.1-478 - Fingerprinting in connection with business, commercial or financial transaction. - Virginia Statutes

§ 59.1-478. Fingerprinting in connection with business, commercial orfinancial transaction.

Whenever any person requires another to furnish a fingerprint or fingerprintsin conjunction with any business, commercial or financial transaction, unlessthe parties otherwise agree, within twenty-one days of the transaction'scompletion or termination the original record of such prints and all copiesof such prints, including electronic or facsimile copies shall be (i)returned to the person providing such prints or (ii) destroyed by the personrequiring and obtaining such prints.

The provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of fingerprintsaffixed to instruments governed by Titles 8.3A and 8.4.

(1999, c. 715.)