Code of Virginia - Title 55 Property And Conveyances - Chapter 13 Landlord And Tenant

• 55-217 Grantees and assignees to have same rights against lessees as lessors, etc
  A grantee or assignee of any land let to lease, or of the reversion thereof, and his heirs, personal representative or assigns shall enjoy against ...
• 55-218 Lessees, etc., to have same rights against grantees, etc., as against lessors
  A lessee, his personal representative or assigns may have against a grantee or alienee of the reversion, or of any part thereof, his heirs or ...
• 55-218.1 Appointment of resident agent by nonresident property owner; service of process, etc., on such agen...
  Any nonresident person as the term "person" is defined in § 55-248.4 of this title of the Commonwealth who owns and leases residential or commercial ...
• 55-219 Apportionment on purchase of part of land by holder of rent, etc
  When the holder of a rent shall purchase part of the land out of which the same issues, the rent shall be apportioned in like ...
• 55-220 What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornment unnecessary
  In conveyances or devises of rents in fee, with powers of distress and reentry, or either of them, such powers shall pass to the grantee ...
• 55-220.1 Perfection of lien or interest in leases, rents and profits
  The recordation pursuant to § 55-106, in the county or city in which the real property is located, of any deed, deed of trust or ...
• 55-221 When attornment void
  The attornment of a tenant to any stranger shall be void, unless it be with the consent of the landlord of such tenant or pursuant ...
• 55-222 Notice to terminate a tenancy; on whom served; when necessary
  A tenancy from year to year may be terminated by either party giving three months' notice, in writing, prior to the end of any year ...
• 55-222.1 Description unavailable
  Repealed by Acts 1974, c. 680. ...
• 55-223 Effect of failure of tenant to vacate premises at expiration of term
  A tenant from year to year, month to month, or other definite term, shall not, by his mere failure to vacate the premises upon the ...
• 55-224 When tenant deserts premises, how landlord may enter, etc
  If any tenant from whom rent is in arrear and unpaid shall desert the demised premises and leave the same uncultivated or unoccupied, without goods ...
• 55-225 Failure to pay certain rents after five days' notice forfeits right of possession
  If any tenant or lessee of premises in a city or town, or in any subdivision of suburban and other lands divided into building lots ...
• 55-225.1 Recovery of possession limited
  A landlord may not recover or take possession of a residential dwelling unit by (i) willful diminution of services to the tenant by interrupting or ...
• 55-225.2 Remedies for landlord's unlawful ouster, exclusion or diminution of service
  If a landlord unlawfully removes or excludes a tenant from residential premises or willfully diminishes services to a residential tenant by interrupting or causing the ...
• 55-225.3 Landlord to maintain dwelling unit
  A. The landlord shall: 1. Comply with the requirements of applicable building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety; 2. Make all repairs and ...
• 55-225.4 Tenant to maintain dwelling unit
  A. In addition to the provisions of the rental agreement, the tenant shall: 1. Comply with all obligations primarily imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions ...
• 55-225.5 Access following entry of certain court orders.
  A. A tenant who has obtained an order from a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to § 16.1-279.1 or subsection B of § 20-103 granting ...
• 55-225.6 Inspection of dwelling unit.
  The landlord may, within five days after occupancy of a dwelling unit, submit a written report to the tenant, for his safekeeping, itemizing damages to ...
• 55-225.7 Disclosure of mold in dwelling units.
  As part of the written report of the move-in inspection pursuant to § 55-225.6, the landlord may disclose whether there is any visible evidence of ...
• 55-225.8 Definitions for residential dwelling units subject to this chapter.
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: "Authorized occupant" means a person entitled to occupy a dwelling unit with the consent of the ...
• 55-225.9 Relocation of tenant where mold remediation needs to be performed in the dwelling unit.
  Where a mold condition in a dwelling unit materially affects the health or safety of any tenant or authorized occupant, the landlord may require the ...
• 55-226 Buildings destroyed or lessee deprived of possession; covenant to pay rent or repair; reduction of ...
  No covenant or promise by a lessee to pay the rent, or that he will keep or leave the premises in good repair, shall have ...
• 55-226.1 Security systems for commercial rental property
  No landlord of a premises demised for commercial or business purposes shall unreasonably withhold or delay consent for the tenant to install anticrime warning devices ...
• 55-226.2 Energy submetering, energy allocation equipment, sewer and water submetering equipment, ratio utili...
  A. Energy submetering equipment, energy allocation equipment, water and sewer submetering equipment, or a ratio utility billing system may be used in a commercial or ...
• 55-227 Remedy for rent and for use and occupation
  Rent of every kind may be recovered by distress or action. A landlord may also, by action, recover, when the agreement is not by deed, ...
• 55-228 Who may recover rent, etc
  He to whom rent or compensation is due, whether he have the reversion or not, his personal representative or assignee may recover it as provided ...
• 55-229 Who liable for rent
  Rent may be recovered from the lessee or other person owing it, or his assignee, or the personal representative of either; but no assignee is ...
• 55-230 When and by whom distress made
  A distress action for rent may be brought within five years from the time the rent becomes due, and not afterwards, whether the lease is ...
• 55-230.1 Procedure for trial on warrant in distress
  The distress warrant shall contain a return date and be tried in the same manner as an action on a warrant as prescribed in § ...
• 55-231 On what goods levied; to what extent goods liable; priorities between landlord and other lienor...
  The distress may be levied on any goods of the lessee, or his assignee, or undertenant, found on the premises, or which may have been ...
• 55-232 Procedure when distress levied and tenant unable to give forthcoming bond; what defense may be mad...
  A. On affidavit by a tenant, whose property has been levied on under a warrant of distress, that (i) he is unable to give the ...
• 55-232.1 Description unavailable
  Repealed by Acts 1993, c. 841. ...
• 55-232.2 Review of decision to issue ex parte order or process; claim of exemption
  Promptly after levy on the property or promptly after possession of the property is taken by the officer pursuant to an ex parte order, or ...
• 55-233 On what terms purchasers and lienors inferior to landlord may remove goods; certain liens not affec...
  If, after the commencement of any tenancy, a lien be obtained or created by deed of trust, mortgage or otherwise upon the interest or property ...
• 55-234 When goods of an undertenant may be removed from leased premises
  Section 55-233 is subject to the following limitations: An undertenant, or a purchaser from him, or a creditor holding a deed of trust, mortgage or ...
• 55-235 When officer may enter by force to levy distress or attachment
  The officer having such distress warrant, or an attachment for rent, if there be need for it, may, in the daytime, break open and enter ...
• 55-236 When distress not unlawful because of irregularity, etc
  When distress shall be made for rent justly due and any irregularity or unlawful act shall be afterwards done by the party distraining, or his ...
• 55-237 Return of execution; process of sale thereunder
  The sheriff under writ of execution from the court after hearing and judgment for the landlord except when it is otherwise provided by law, shall ...
• 55-237.1 Authority of sheriffs to store and sell personal property removed from premises; recovery of posses...
  Notwithstanding the provisions of § 8.01-156, when personal property is removed from any leased or rented commercial or residential premises pursuant to an action of ...
• 55-238 Remedy when rent is to be paid in other thing than money
  When goods are distrained or attached for rent reserved in a share of the crop, or in anything other than money, the claimant of the ...
• 55-239 Proceedings to establish right of reentry, and judgment therefor
  Any person who shall have a right of reentry into lands by reason of any rent issuing thereout being in arrear, or by reason of ...
• 55-240 When defendant barred of relief
  Should the defendant, or other person for him, not pay the rent in arrear, with interest and costs, nor file a bill in equity for ...
• 55-241 How trustee or mortgagee relieved from the forfeiture
  Any mortgagee or trustee of such lands not in possession thereof may, within twelve calendar months after execution executed, pay the rent and all arrears, ...
• 55-242 How owner, etc., relieved in equity
  If the owner of such lands, or any person having right or claim thereto, shall, within the time aforesaid, file his bill for relief in ...
• 55-243 How judgment of forfeiture prevented
  A. If any party having right or claim to such lands shall, at any time before the trial in such ejectment, or at or before ...
• 55-244 When suit for reentry brought
  In case the time for reentering be specified in the instrument creating the rent, covenant or condition, the proceedings in ejectment shall not be begun ...
• 55-245 Written act of reentry to be returned and recorded, and certificate thereof published
  When actual reentry is made, the party by or for whom the same is made shall return a written act of reentry, sworn to by ...
• 55-246 Fee of clerk
  The clerk shall be paid for recording, granting certificate, and noting publication, as aforesaid, the same fee as prescribed in subdivision A 2 of § ...
• 55-246.1 Who may recover rent or possession
  Notwithstanding any rule of court to the contrary, (i) any person licensed under the provisions of § 54.1-2106.1, (ii) any property manager, or a managing ...
• 55-247 How person entitled, etc., to lands may be restored to his possession
  Should the person entitled to such lands at the time of reentry made, or having claim thereto, not pay or tender the rent and all ...
• 55-248 Limitation of suit, etc., against person in possession by reentry
  No person who, or who with his predecessor in title under whom he claims, shall have been possessed of lands by virtue of a reentry ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009