Disable validation for an element with jQuery Unobtrusive Validation

Question

I am generating a list of elements on a page, and they all have validators attached to them. When I look in the HTML source, I see something like:

Answer 1

This worked better for me:

$('#Reference').rules('add', 'required');
$('#Reference').rules('add', 'remove');
$('#Reference').rules('add', { minlength: 2 });