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Except as otherwise provided by this section, no contract shall be invalid or unenforceable by reason of nonperformance of the conditions required by any other law relating to public contracts.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1300150,"text":"An authority may contract for the planning, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, repair, extension, and improvement of a project or may contract with one or more units to perform these functions, by advertising for bids, preparing plans and specifications in advance of construction, or securing performances and payment bonds to the extent that its board of directors determines that these actions are desirable in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 416 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. Unfortunately, the 1979 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1386231,"object_type":"law","relational_id":348770,"identifier":"15.2-5411","token":"15.2\/IV\/54\/15.2-5411","url":"\/15.2-5411\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-5411\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/54\/15.2-5411","dublin_core":{"Title":"Contracts for planning, acquisition, construction, etc., of projects","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-5411","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>An <span class=\"dictionary\">authority<\/span> may <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span> for the planning, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, repair, extension, and improvement of a <span class=\"dictionary\">project<\/span> or may <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span> with one or more <span class=\"dictionary\">units<\/span> to perform these functions, by advertising for bids, preparing plans and specifications in advance of construction, or securing performances and payment <span class=\"dictionary\"><span class=\"dictionary\">bonds<\/span><\/span> to the extent that its board of directors determines that these actions are desirable in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. Except as otherwise provided by this section, no <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span> shall be invalid or unenforceable by reason of nonperformance of the conditions required by any other <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span> relating to public <span class=\"dictionary\">contracts<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCONTRACTS FOR PLANNING, ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, ETC., OF PROJECTS (\u00a7\n15.2-5411)\n\nAn authority may contract for the planning, acquisition, construction,\nreconstruction, operation, maintenance, repair, extension, and improvement of a\nproject or may contract with one or more units to perform these functions, by\nadvertising for bids, preparing plans and specifications in advance of\nconstruction, or securing performances and payment bonds to the extent that its\nboard of directors determines that these actions are desirable in furtherance of\nthe purposes of this chapter. Except as otherwise provided by this section, no\ncontract shall be invalid or unenforceable by reason of nonperformance of the\nconditions required by any other law relating to public contracts.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 416, \u00a7 15.1-1614; 1997, c. 587.","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"}}