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None of the terms or provisions of this article shall apply to any person, firm, corporation, or craft unless, until, and only so long as such person, firm, corporation, or craft voluntarily elects that the terms and provisions of this article shall apply.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1311565,"text":"Nothing in this article or in any apprentice agreement approved under this article shall invalidate any apprenticeship provision in any collective agreement between employers and employees establishing higher apprenticeship standards regarding ratios of apprentices to journeymen, probationary periods, or length of the program. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0624\">624<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0625\">625<\/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":1400651,"object_type":"law","relational_id":352310,"identifier":"2.2-2053","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/20.2\/3\/2.2-2053","url":"\/2.2-2053\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-2053\/","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/20.2\/3\/2.2-2053","dublin_core":{"Title":"Operation and application of article","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-2053","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Nothing in this article or in any <span class=\"dictionary\">apprentice<\/span> agreement approved under this article shall invalidate any apprenticeship provision in any collective agreement between <span class=\"dictionary\">employers<\/span> and employees establishing higher apprenticeship standards regarding ratios of <span class=\"dictionary\">apprentices<\/span> to journeymen, probationary periods, or length of the program. 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None of the terms or provisions of this article shall\napply to any person, firm, corporation, or craft unless, until, and only so long\nas such person, firm, corporation, or craft voluntarily elects that the terms\nand provisions of this article shall apply.\n\nHISTORY: 2023, cc. 624, 625.","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"}}