California Commercial Code — General Provisions — Territorial Applicability And General Rules — Variation by agreement Date: 14 Sep 2016 TEXT PDF Current through the 2016 Legislative Session (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or elsewhere in this code, the effect of provisions of this code may be varied by agreement. (b) The obligations of good faith, diligence, reasonableness, and care prescribed by this code may not be disclaimed by agreement. The parties, by agreement, may determine the standards by which the performance of those obligations is to be measured if those standards are not manifestly unreasonable. Whenever this code requires an action to be taken within a reasonable time, a time that is not manifestly unreasonable may be fixed by agreement. (c) The presence of certain provisions of this code of the phrase "unless otherwise agreed," or words of similar import, does not imply that the effect of other provisions may not be varied by agreement under this section. Ca. Com. Code § 1302 Added by Stats 2006 ch 254 (SB 1481),s 30, eff. 1/1/2007.