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§ 25.1-319 Certificates of completion

Upon completion of construction of any public use project for which a portion of private property was acquired by certificate, the condemnor shall, within 90 days of completion of construction, record a certificate of completion in the clerk’s office of the court where deeds are recorded. Such certificate of completion shall state that construction of the public use project for which the property was taken is complete and any temporary acquisitions have terminated. The clerk shall record the certificate of completion in the deed book and index in it the names of both (i) the person or persons who own the land at the time of the recordation of the certificate of completion and (ii) the condemnor.

History

This law was first created in 2022. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 735 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2022, c. 735.

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