{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-59.1-455","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 59.1-455","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\"Commission\" means compensation accruing to a sales representative for payment by a principal, the rate of which is expressed as a percentage of the total dollar amount of orders or sales or as a specified amount per order or per sale.\"Principal\" means a person who manufactures, produces, imports or distributes a product for wholesale and who contracts with a sales representative to solicit orders or sales for such product and compensates the sales representative, in whole or in part, by commission.\"Sales representative\" means a person other than an employee who contracts with a principal to solicit wholesale orders or sales and who is compensated, in whole or in part, by commission, but shall not include a person who purchases exclusively for his own account for resale.1993, c. 736.","path":["Title 59.1. TRADE AND COMMERCE","Chapter 37. CONTRACTS; INDEPENDENT SALES REPRESENTATIVES"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/59.1-455/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:17:49Z","sha256":"66e9dab3e6de7b3ff01072180495ea3f8c55776b031d1a67aeb33cf5fc51d043","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-59.1-454","next":"us-va/va.-code-59.1-456"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}