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A landlord may enter into a service agreement with a television service provider to provide marketing and other services to the television service provider designed to facilitate the television service provider’s delivery of its services. Under such a service agreement, the television service provider may compensate the landlord for the reasonable value of the services provided and for the reasonable value of the landlord’s property used by the television service provider.\n\t\tNo landlord shall demand or accept any such payment from any tenants in exchange for such service unless the landlord is itself the provider of the service, nor shall any landlord discriminate in rental charges between tenants who receive any such service and those who do not. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit a landlord from (i) requiring that the provider of such service and the tenant bear the entire cost of the installation, operation, or removal of the facilities incident to such service or (ii) demanding or accepting reasonable indemnity or security for any damages caused by such installation, operation, or removal.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":268127,"text":"No landlord of a multifamily dwelling unit shall demand or accept payment of any fee, charge, or other thing of value from any provider of cable television service, cable modem service, satellite master antenna television service, direct broadcast satellite television service, subscription television service, or service of any other television programming system in exchange for granting a television service provider mere access to the landlord’s tenants or giving the tenants of such landlord mere access to such service. A landlord may enter into a service agreement with a television service provider to provide marketing and other services to the television service provider designed to facilitate the television service provider’s delivery of its services. Under such a service agreement, the television service provider may compensate the landlord for the reasonable value of the services provided and for the reasonable value of the landlord’s property used by the television service provider.\n\t\tNo landlord shall demand or accept any such payment from any tenants in exchange for such service unless the landlord is itself the provider of the service, nor shall any landlord discriminate in rental charges between tenants who receive any such service and those who do not. 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This law was first created in 1982. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 323 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1982 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2000, chapter 760<\/a>; in 2003, chapters 60<\/a>, 64<\/a>, and 68<\/a>; in 2017, chapter 730<\/a>; in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":245991,"object_type":"law","relational_id":74610,"identifier":"55.1-1222","token":"55.1\/III\/12\/2\/55.1-1222","url":"\/55.1-1222\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-1222\/","token":"55.1\/III\/12\/2\/55.1-1222","dublin_core":{"Title":"Access of tenant to cable, satellite, and other television facilities","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-1222","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

No landlord<\/span> of a multifamily dwelling unit<\/span> shall demand or accept payment of any fee, charge, or other thing of value from any provider of cable television service, cable modem service, satellite master antenna television service, direct broadcast satellite television service, subscription television service, or service of any other television programming system in exchange for granting a television service provider mere access to the landlord<\/span>’s tenants<\/span> or giving the tenants<\/span> of such landlord<\/span> mere access to such service. A landlord<\/span> may enter into a service agreement with a television service provider to provide marketing and other services to the television service provider designed to facilitate the television service provider’s delivery of its services. Under such a service agreement, the television service provider may compensate the landlord<\/span> for the reasonable value of the services provided and for the reasonable value of the landlord<\/span>’s property used by the television service provider.\n\t\tNo landlord<\/span> shall demand or accept any such payment from any tenants<\/span> in exchange for such service unless the landlord<\/span> is itself the provider of the service, nor shall any landlord<\/span> discriminate in rental charges between tenants<\/span> who receive any such service and those who do not. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit a landlord<\/span> from (i) requiring that the provider of such service and the tenant<\/span> bear the entire cost of the installation, operation, or removal of the facilities incident to such service or (ii) demanding or accepting reasonable indemnity or security for any damages<\/span> caused by such installation, operation, or removal.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nACCESS OF TENANT TO CABLE, SATELLITE, AND OTHER TELEVISION FACILITIES (\u00a7\n55.1-1222)\n\nNo landlord of a multifamily dwelling unit shall demand or accept payment of any\nfee, charge, or other thing of value from any provider of cable television\nservice, cable modem service, satellite master antenna television service,\ndirect broadcast satellite television service, subscription television service,\nor service of any other television programming system in exchange for granting a\ntelevision service provider mere access to the landlord’s tenants or\ngiving the tenants of such landlord mere access to such service. A landlord may\nenter into a service agreement with a television service provider to provide\nmarketing and other services to the television service provider designed to\nfacilitate the television service provider’s delivery of its services.\nUnder such a service agreement, the television service provider may compensate\nthe landlord for the reasonable value of the services provided and for the\nreasonable value of the landlord’s property used by the television service\nprovider.\n\t\tNo landlord shall demand or accept any such payment from any tenants in\nexchange for such service unless the landlord is itself the provider of the\nservice, nor shall any landlord discriminate in rental charges between tenants\nwho receive any such service and those who do not. Nothing contained in this\nsection shall prohibit a landlord from (i) requiring that the provider of such\nservice and the tenant bear the entire cost of the installation, operation, or\nremoval of the facilities incident to such service or (ii) demanding or\naccepting reasonable indemnity or security for any damages caused by such\ninstallation, operation, or removal.\n\nHISTORY: 1982, c. 323, \u00a7 55-248.13:2; 2000, c. 760; 2003, cc. 60, 64, 68; 2017,\nc. 730; 2019, c. 712.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}