Code of Virginia - Title 55 Property And Conveyances - Section 55-225.1 Recovery of possession limited

§ 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 causing the interruption of electric, gas, water or other essential service required to be supplied by the landlord under a rental agreement or (ii) refusal to permit the tenant access to the unit unless such refusal is pursuant to the execution of a writ of possession.

(1994, c. 583.)

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