Code of Virginia - Title 55 Property And Conveyances - Section 55-442 Contents of declaration

§ 55-442. Contents of declaration

A. The declaration must contain:

1. The names of the cooperative, which must include the word "cooperative" or be followed by the words "a cooperative," and the association;

2. The name of every city or county in which any part of the cooperative is situated;

3. A legally sufficient description of the real estate included in the cooperative;

4. A statement of the maximum number of units which the declarant reserves the right to create;

5. A description, which may be by plats or plans, of each unit created by the declaration, including the unit's identifying number, its size or number of rooms, and its location within a building if it is within a building containing more than one unit;

6. A description of any limited common elements, other than those specified in paragraphs 2 and 4 of § 55-439;

7. A description of any real estate, except real estate subject to development rights, which may be allocated subsequently as limited common elements, other than limited common elements specified in paragraphs 2 and 4 of § 55-439, together with a statement that they may be so allocated;

8. A description of any development rights and other special declarant rights reserved by the declarant, together with a legally sufficient description of the real estate to which each of those rights applies, and a time limit within which each of those rights must be exercised;

9. If any development right may be exercised with respect to different parcels of real estate at different times, a statement to that effect together with (i) either a statement fixing the boundaries of those portions and regulating the order in which those portions may be subjected to the exercise of each development right, or a statement that no assurances are made in those regards, and (ii) a statement as to whether, if any development right is exercised in any portion of the real estate subject to that development right, that development right must be exercised in all or in any other portion of the remainder of that real estate;

10. Any other conditions or limitations under which the rights described in paragraph 8 may be exercised or will lapse;

11. An allocation to each cooperative interest of the allocated interests in the manner described in § 55-444;

12. Any restrictions on (i) use and occupancy of the units; (ii) alienation of the cooperative interests; and (iii) the amount for which a cooperative interest may be sold or the amount that may be received by a proprietary lessee upon sale, condemnation or casualty loss to the unit or the cooperative or termination of the cooperative;

13. The recording data for recorded easements and licenses appurtenant to or included in the cooperative or to which any portion of the cooperative is or may become subject by virtue of a reservation in the declaration; and

14. All matters required by §§ 55-443, 55-444, 55-445, 55-451, 55-452 and subsection D of § 55-460.

B. The declaration may contain any other matters the declarant deems appropriate.

(1982, c. 277.)

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