The Virginia Property Owners' Association Act covers policies mostly for the common areas of a residential development in Virginia. The seller is obligated to provide a written copy of all association documents before a buyer purchases a home. A buyer may cancel within three days of receiving the association documents.
Except to the extent provided in the inium instruments, the executive board shall, prior to the commencement of the fiscal year, make available to unit owners either (i) the annual budget of the unit owners' association or (ii) a summary of such annual budget.
Maintenance, repair, and replacement of a limited common element is usually the responsibility of the association except to the extent the declaration shifts that duty to the unit owner.
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§ 55.1-1915. The declarant, every unit owner, and all those entitled to occupy a unit shall comply with all lawful provisions of this chapter and all provisions of the inium instruments.
The Virginia inium Act (the “Act”) was enacted on July 1, 1974. It superseded the Horizontal Property Act, which was enacted in 1962. iniums are purely “creatures of statute” meaning that without the laws permitting them, they would not exist. In other words, they are a legal entity created by statute.
Virginia does not have common law marriage. No duties or obligations arise between two adults by living together in the same household unless such duties or obligation are set out by express agreement.
Communities of Interest are often defined as “a contiguous population which shares common social and economic interests that should be included within a single district for purposes of fair and effective representation.”
The Code of Virginia is the official record of laws enacted by the Virginia General Assembly and signed by the governor. These laws apply to everyone in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Code of Virginia is organized into 74 titles dealing with particular topics; titles are organized into chapters.