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This law was first created in 1962. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 627 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 1962 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 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 1966, chapter 683; in 1973, chapter 375; in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":247043,"object_type":"law","relational_id":54026,"identifier":"55.1-2005","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/3\/55.1-2005","url":"\/55.1-2005\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-2005\/","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/3\/55.1-2005","dublin_core":{"Title":"Apartments subject to individual titles and interests; recording; transfer of garage unit","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-2005","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Once the property<\/span> is established as a horizontal property<\/span> regime, an apartment<\/span> in the building is a separate parcel of real property<\/span> and may be individually conveyed and encumbered, independent of the other apartments<\/span> in the building, and the corresponding individual titles and interests shall be recordable. A garage unit sold to a co-owner<\/span> as a limited common element may be sold or transferred by him to another co-owner<\/span> in the same horizontal property<\/span> regime independently of and separately from his apartment<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAPARTMENTS SUBJECT TO INDIVIDUAL TITLES AND INTERESTS; RECORDING; TRANSFER OF\nGARAGE UNIT (\u00a7 55.1-2005)\n\nOnce the property is established as a horizontal property regime, an apartment\nin the building is a separate parcel of real property and may be individually\nconveyed and encumbered, independent of the other apartments in the building,\nand the corresponding individual titles and interests shall be recordable. A\ngarage unit sold to a co-owner as a limited common element may be sold or\ntransferred by him to another co-owner in the same horizontal property regime\nindependently of and separately from his apartment.\n\nHISTORY: 1962, c. 627, \u00a7 4, \u00a7 55-79.4; 1966, c. 683; 1973, c. 375; 2019, c.\n712.","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}}