Code of Virginia (Last Updated:July 28, 2020) |
TITLE 55. Property and Conveyances |
CHAPTER 13. Landlord and Tenant |
SECTION 55-217. Applicability; right to terminate tenant |
SECTION 55-217.1. Grantees and assignees to have same rights against lessees as lessors, etc |
SECTION 55-218. Lessees, etc., to have same rights against grantees, etc., as against lessors |
SECTION 55-218.1. Appointment of resident agent by nonresident property owner; service of process, etc., on such agent or on Secretary of the Commonwealth |
SECTION 55-219. Apportionment on purchase of part of land by holder of rent, etc |
SECTION 55-220. What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornment unnecessary |
SECTION 55-220.1. Perfection of lien or interest in leases, rents and profits |
SECTION 55-221. When attornment void |
SECTION 55-221.1. Community land trusts not considered landlords |
SECTION 55-222. Notice to terminate a tenancy in nonresidential premises; notice of change in use of multifamily residential building |
SECTION 55-222.1. Repealed |
SECTION 55-223. Effect of failure of tenant in nonresidential premises to vacate premises at expiration of term |
SECTION 55-224. When tenant deserts nonresidential premises, how landlord may enter, etc |
SECTION 55-225. Failure to pay certain rents after five days' notice forfeits right of possession |
SECTION 55-225.01. Sections applicable only to certain residential tenancies |
SECTION 55-225.02. Definitions for residential dwelling units subject to this chapter |
SECTION 55-225.1. Recovery of possession limited |
SECTION 55-225.2. Remedies for landlord's unlawful ouster, exclusion or diminution of service |
SECTION 55-225.3. Landlord to maintain dwelling unit |
SECTION 55-225.4. Tenant to maintain dwelling unit |
SECTION 55-225.5. Access following entry of certain court orders |
SECTION 55-225.6. Inspection of dwelling unit |
SECTION 55-225.7. Disclosure of mold in dwelling units |
SECTION 55-225.8. Repealed |
SECTION 55-225.9. Relocation of tenant where mold remediation needs to be performed in the dwelling unit |
SECTION 55-225.10. Notice to tenant in event of foreclosure |
SECTION 55-225.11. Required disclosures for properties with defective drywall; remedy for nondisclosure |
SECTION 55-225.11.1. Required disclosures for properties located adjacent to a military air installation; remedy for nondisclosure |
SECTION 55-225.12. Tenant's assertion; rent escrow; dwelling units |
SECTION 55-225.12.1. Wrongful failure to supply heat, water, hot water, or essential services |
SECTION 55-225.13. Noncompliance by landlord in the rental of a dwelling unit |
SECTION 55-225.13.1. Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent |
SECTION 55-225.14. Rent escrow required for continuance of tenant's case in the rental of a dwelling unit |
SECTION 55-225.15. Receipt required for certain rental payments; upon request |
SECTION 55-225.16. Early termination of rental agreements by victims of family abuse, sexual abuse, or criminal sexual assault |
SECTION 55-225.17. Required disclosures for property previously used to manufacture methamphetamine; remedy for nondisclosure |
SECTION 55-225.18. Retaliatory conduct prohibited |
SECTION 55-225.19. Security deposits |
SECTION 55-225.20. Notice |
SECTION 55-225.21. Application deposit and application fee |
SECTION 55-225.22. Terms and conditions of rental agreement; copy for tenant; rental payments |
SECTION 55-225.22.1. Prohibited provisions in rental agreements |
SECTION 55-225.23. Prepaid rent; maintenance of escrow account |
SECTION 55-225.24. Landlord may obtain certain insurance for tenant |
SECTION 55-225.25. Effect of unsigned or undelivered rental agreement |
SECTION 55-225.26. Confidentiality of tenant records |
SECTION 55-225.27. Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access |
SECTION 55-225.28. Actions to enforce remedies pertaining to residential tenancies |
SECTION 55-225.29. Disclosure |
SECTION 55-225.30. Notice to tenants for insecticide or pesticide use |
SECTION 55-225.31. Limitation of liability |
SECTION 55-225.32. Tenancy at will; effect of notice of change of terms or provisions of tenancy |
SECTION 55-225.33. Rules and regulations |
SECTION 55-225.34. Access; consent; correction of nonemergency conditions; relocation of tenant |
SECTION 55-225.35. Fire or casualty damage |
SECTION 55-225.36. Use and occupancy by tenant |
SECTION 55-225.37. Tenant to surrender possession of dwelling unit |
SECTION 55-225.38. Periodic tenancy; holdover remedies |
SECTION 55-225.39. Remedies for absence, nonuse and abandonment |
SECTION 55-225.40. Disposal of property abandoned by tenants |
SECTION 55-225.41. Authority of sheriff to store and sell personal property removed from residential premises; recovery of possession by owner; disposition or sale |
SECTION 55-225.42. Disposal of property of deceased tenants |
SECTION 55-225.43. Noncompliance with rental agreement; monetary penalty |
SECTION 55-225.44. Barring guest or invitee of tenants |
SECTION 55-225.45. Sheriff authorized to serve certain notices; fees therefor |
SECTION 55-225.46. Remedy by repair, etc.; emergencies |
SECTION 55-225.47. Landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation |
SECTION 55-225.48. Remedy after termination |
SECTION 55-225.49. Early termination of rental agreement by military personnel |
SECTION 55-225.50. Failure to deliver possession |
SECTION 55-226. Nonresidential buildings destroyed or lessee deprived of possession; covenant to pay rent or repair; reduction of rent |
SECTION 55-226.1. Security systems for commercial rental property |
SECTION 55-226.2. Energy submetering, energy allocation equipment, sewer and water submetering equipment, ratio utility billings systems; local government fees |
SECTION 55-227. Remedy for rent and for use and occupation |
SECTION 55-228. Who may recover rent, etc |
SECTION 55-229. Who liable for rent |
SECTION 55-230. When and by whom distress made |
SECTION 55-230.1. Procedure for trial on warrant in distress |
SECTION 55-231. On what goods levied; to what extent goods liable; priorities between landlord and other lienors |
SECTION 55-232. Procedure when distress levied and tenant unable to give forthcoming bond; what defense may be made |
SECTION 55-232.1. Repealed |
SECTION 55-232.2. Review of decision to issue ex parte order or process; claim of exemption |
SECTION 55-233. On what terms purchasers and lienors inferior to landlord may remove goods; certain liens not affected |
SECTION 55-234. When goods of an undertenant may be removed from leased premises |
SECTION 55-235. When officer may enter by force to levy distress or attachment |
SECTION 55-236. When distress not unlawful because of irregularity, etc |
SECTION 55-237. Return of execution; process of sale thereunder |
SECTION 55-237.1. Authority of sheriffs to store and sell personal property removed from nonresidential premises; recovery of possession by owner; disposition or sale |
SECTION 55-238. Remedy when rent is to be paid in other thing than money |
SECTION 55-239. Proceedings to establish right of reentry, and judgment therefor |
SECTION 55-240. When defendant barred of relief |
SECTION 55-241. How trustee or mortgagee relieved from the forfeiture |
SECTION 55-242. How owner, etc., relieved in equity |
SECTION 55-243. How judgment of forfeiture prevented |
SECTION 55-244. When suit for reentry brought |
SECTION 55-245. Written act of reentry to be returned and recorded, and certificate thereof published |
SECTION 55-246. Fee of clerk |
SECTION 55-246.1. Who may recover rent or possession |
SECTION 55-247. How person entitled, etc., to lands may be restored to his possession |
SECTION 55-248. Limitation of suit, etc., against person in possession by reentry |