A. Except as provided in subsection B, a project professional is not liable for injury to or death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of project activity, so long as the warning contained in § 55.1-2225 is posted as required. Except as provided in subsection B, no participant or participant's representative may maintain an action against or recover from a project professional for injury, loss, damage, or death of the participant resulting exclusively from any of the inherent risks of project activity, provided that in any action for damages against a project professional for a project activity, the project professional shall plead the affirmative defense of assumption of the inherent risks of project activity by the participant.
B. Nothing in subsection A shall prevent or limit the liability of a project professional if the project professional does any one or more of the following:
1. Commits an act or omission that constitutes negligence or willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant, and that act or omission proximately causes injury, damage, or death to the participant;
2. Has actual knowledge or reasonably should have known of a dangerous condition on the land or in the facilities or equipment used in the project activity, or the dangerous propensity of a particular animal used in such activity, and does not make the danger known to the participant, and the danger proximately causes injury, damage, or death to the participant; or
3. Intentionally injures the participant.
C. Any limitation on legal liability afforded by this section to a project professional is in addition to any other limitations of legal liability otherwise provided by law.
2007, c. 267, § 55-376.3; 2019, c. 712.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 22 - Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act
§ 55.1-2202. Administrative agency
§ 55.1-2203. Status of time-share estates with respect to real property interests
§ 55.1-2204. Applicability of local ordinances, regulations, and building codes
§ 55.1-2206. Severability of provisions of time-share instruments
§ 55.1-2207. Time-sharing permitted
§ 55.1-2209. Time-share instrument for time-share estate project
§ 55.1-2210. Developer control in time-share estate program
§ 55.1-2211. Time-share estate owners' association control liens
§ 55.1-2212. Time-share owners' association books and records; meetings; use of email
§ 55.1-2213. Time-share estate owners' association annual report
§ 55.1-2214. Time-share instrument for project
§ 55.1-2216. Termination of certain time-shares
§ 55.1-2217. Public offering statement
§ 55.1-2218. Certain advertising practices regulated
§ 55.1-2219. Exchange programs
§ 55.1-2220. Escrow of deposits; use of corporate surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit
§ 55.1-2221. Purchaser's rights of cancellation
§ 55.1-2222. Possibility of reverter
§ 55.1-2223. Recording and delivery of deed
§ 55.1-2224. Liability limited; liability actions prohibited
§ 55.1-2226. Buyer's Acknowledgment
§ 55.1-2227. Resale of time-shares
§ 55.1-2228. Required resale disclosures
§ 55.1-2231. Statute of limitations; actions; limitation on rescission rights
§ 55.1-2233. Financial records
§ 55.1-2234. Developer's obligation to complete
§ 55.1-2235. Financing of time-share programs
§ 55.1-2236. Purchaser's rights under developer's foreclosure
§ 55.1-2237. Protection of lien holder
§ 55.1-2238. Registration of time-share program required
§ 55.1-2239. Application for registration
§ 55.1-2241. Receipt of application; effectiveness of registration
§ 55.1-2242. Annual report; amendments
§ 55.1-2243. Termination of registration
§ 55.1-2244. Registration required for time-share resellers; exemptions; prohibited practices
§ 55.1-2245. Recordkeeping by resellers
§ 55.1-2246. Alternative purchase; registration
§ 55.1-2247. General powers and duties of Board
§ 55.1-2248. Cancellation of cease and desist order; reinstatement of registration of developer
§ 55.1-2249. Board regulation of public offering statement