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2021 Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 12 - Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 55.1-1200. Definitions
- § 55.1-1201. Applicability of chapter; local authority
- § 55.1-1202. Notice
- § 55.1-1203. Application; deposit, fee, and additional information
- § 55.1-1204. Terms and conditions of rental agreement; payment of rent; copy of rental agreement for tenant
- § 55.1-1205. Prepaid rent; maintenance of escrow account
- § 55.1-1206. Landlord may obtain certain insurance for tenant
- § 55.1-1207. Effect of unsigned or undelivered rental agreement
- § 55.1-1208. Prohibited provisions in rental agreements
- § 55.1-1209. Confidentiality of tenant records
- § 55.1-1210. Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access
- § 55.1-1211. Appointment of resident agent by nonresident property owner; service of process, etc., on such agent or on Secretary of the Commonwealth
- § 55.1-1212. Energy submetering, energy allocation equipment, sewer and water submetering equipment, and ratio utility billing systems; local government fees
- § 55.1-1213. Transfer of deposits upon purchase
Article 2. Landlord Obligations
- § 55.1-1214. Inspection of dwelling unit; report
- § 55.1-1215. Disclosure of mold in dwelling units
- § 55.1-1216. Disclosure of sale of premises
- § 55.1-1217. Required disclosures for properties located adjacent to a military air installation; remedy for nondisclosure
- § 55.1-1218. Required disclosures for properties with defective drywall; remedy for nondisclosure
- § 55.1-1219. Required disclosures for property previously used to manufacture methamphetamine; remedy for nondisclosure
- § 55.1-1220. Landlord to maintain fit premises
- § 55.1-1221. Landlord to provide locks and peepholes
- § 55.1-1222. Access of tenant to cable, satellite, and other television facilities
- § 55.1-1223. Notice to tenants for insecticide or pesticide use
- § 55.1-1224. Limitation of liability
- § 55.1-1225. Tenancy at will; effect of notice of change of terms or provisions of tenancy
- § 55.1-1226. Security deposits
Article 3. Tenant Obligations
- § 55.1-1227. Tenant to maintain dwelling unit
- § 55.1-1228. Rules and regulations
- § 55.1-1229. Access; consent; correction of nonemergency conditions; relocation of tenant; security systems
- § 55.1-1230. Access following entry of certain court orders
- § 55.1-1231. Relocation of tenant where mold remediation needs to be performed in the dwelling unit
- § 55.1-1232. Use and occupancy by tenant
- § 55.1-1233. Tenant to surrender possession of dwelling unit
Article 4. Tenant Remedies
- § 55.1-1234. Noncompliance by landlord
- § 55.1-1235. Early termination of rental agreement by military personnel
- § 55.1-1236. Early termination of rental agreements by victims of family abuse, sexual abuse, or criminal sexual assault
- § 55.1-1237. Notice to tenant in event of foreclosure
- § 55.1-1238. Failure to deliver possession
- § 55.1-1239. Wrongful failure to supply an essential service
- § 55.1-1240. Fire or casualty damage
- § 55.1-1241. Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent
- § 55.1-1242. Rent escrow required for continuance of tenant's case
- § 55.1-1243. Repealed
- § 55.1-1243.1. Tenant's remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit, interruption of services, or actions taken to make premises unsafe
- § 55.1-1244. Tenant's assertion; rent escrow
- § 55.1-1244.1. Tenant's remedy by repair
Article 5. Landlord Remedies
- § 55.1-1245. (Effective until July 1, 2022) Noncompliance with rental agreement; monetary penalty
- § 55.1-1245. (Effective from July 1, 2022, until the later of July 1, 2028, or seven years after the COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency expires) Noncompliance with rental agreement; monetary penalty
- § 55.1-1245. (Effective the later of July 1, 2028, or 7 years after the COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency expires) Noncompliance with rental agreement; monetary penalty
- § 55.1-1246. Barring guest or invitee of a tenant
- § 55.1-1247. Sheriffs authorized to serve certain notices; fee for service
- § 55.1-1248. Remedy by repair, etc.; emergencies
- § 55.1-1249. Remedies for absence, nonuse, and abandonment
- § 55.1-1250. Landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation; tenant's right of redemption
- § 55.1-1251. Remedy after termination
- § 55.1-1252. Recovery of possession limited
- § 55.1-1253. Periodic tenancy; holdover remedies
- § 55.1-1254. Disposal of property abandoned by tenants
- § 55.1-1255. Authority of sheriffs to store and sell personal property removed from residential premises; recovery of possession by owner; disposition or sale
- § 55.1-1256. Disposal of property of deceased tenants
- § 55.1-1257. Who may recover rent or possession
Article 6. Retaliatory Action
Article 7. Eviction Diversion Pilot Program
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