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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 55 PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCES.
Chapter 13.2 Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (55-248.2 thru 55-248.40)
- 55-248.2 Short title
- 55-248.3 Purposes of chapter
- 55-248.3:1 Applicability of chapter
- 55-248.4 Definitions
- 55-248.5 Exemptions; exception to exemption
- 55-248.6 Notice
- 55-248.6:1 Application fees
- 55-248.7 Terms and conditions of rental agreement; copy for tenant
- 55-248.7:1 Prepaid rent; maintenance of escrow account
- 55-248.7:2 Landlord may obtain certain insurance for tenant
- 55-248.8 Effect of unsigned or undelivered rental agreement
- 55-248.9 Prohibited provisions in rental agreements
- 55-248.9:1 Confidentiality of tenant records
- 55-248.10 Description unavailable
- 55-248.10:1 Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access
- 55-248.11 Description unavailable
- 55-248.11:1 Inspection of premises
- 55-248.11:2 Disclosure of mold in dwelling units
- 55-248.12 Disclosure
- 55-248.12:1 Required disclosures for properties located adjacent to a military air installation; remedy for non...
- 55-248.12:2 Required disclosures for properties with defective drywall; remedy for nondisclosure.
- 55-248.13 Landlord to maintain fit premises
- 55-248.13:1 Landlord to provide locks and peepholes
- 55-248.13:2 Access of tenant to cable, satellite and other television facilities
- 55-248.13:3 Notice to tenants for insecticide or pesticide use
- 55-248.14 Limitation of liability
- 55-248.15 Tenancy at will; effect of notice of change of terms or provisions of tenancy
- 55-248.15:1 Security deposits
- 55-248.15:2 Schedule of interest rates on security deposits
- 55-248.16 Tenant to maintain dwelling unit
- 55-248.17 Rules and regulations
- 55-248.18 Access; consent; correction of nonemergency conditions; relocation of tenant
- 55-248.18:1 Access following entry of certain court orders.
- 55-248.18:2 Relocation of tenant where mold remediation needs to be performed in the dwelling unit
- 55-248.19 Use and occupancy by tenant
- 55-248.20 Tenant to surrender possession of dwelling unit
- 55-248.21 Noncompliance by landlord
- 55-248.21:1 Early termination of rental agreement by military personnel
- 55-248.22 Failure to deliver possession
- 55-248.23 Wrongful failure to supply heat, water, hot water or essential services
- 55-248.24 Fire or casualty damage
- 55-248.25 Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent
- 55-248.25:1 Rent escrow required for continuance of tenant's case
- 55-248.26 Tenant's remedies for landlord's unlawful ouster, exclusion or diminution of service
- 55-248.27 Tenant's assertion; rent escrow
- 55-248.28 through 55-248.30
- 55-248.31 Noncompliance with rental agreement; monetary penalty
- 55-248.31:01 Barring guest or invitee of tenants
- 55-248.31:1 Sheriffs authorized to serve certain notices; fees therefor
- 55-248.32 Remedy by repair, etc.; emergencies
- 55-248.33 Remedies for absence, nonuse and abandonment
- 55-248.34 Description unavailable
- 55-248.34:1 Landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation
- 55-248.35 Remedy after termination
- 55-248.36 Recovery of possession limited
- 55-248.37 Periodic tenancy; holdover remedies
- 55-248.38 Description unavailable
- 55-248.38:1 Disposal of property abandoned by tenants
- 55-248.38:2 Authority of sheriffs to store and sell personal property removed from residential premises; recove...
- 55-248.38:3 Disposal of property of deceased tenants
- 55-248.39 Retaliatory conduct prohibited
- 55-248.40 Actions to enforce chapter
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