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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0610\">610<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":61092,"section_number":"55.1-702","catch_line":"Exemptions","order_by":null,"url":"\/55.1-702\/"},{"id":56069,"section_number":"8.01-268","catch_line":"When and how docketed and indexed","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.01-268\/"}],"permalink":{"id":245775,"object_type":"law","relational_id":84772,"identifier":"55.1-706.1","token":"55.1\/II\/7\/55.1-706.1","url":"\/55.1-706.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-706.1\/","token":"55.1\/II\/7\/55.1-706.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Required disclosures; lis pendens","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-706.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Notwithstanding the exemptions in \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Exemptions\" href=\"\/55.1-702\/\">55.1-702<\/a>, if the owner of a residential dwelling unit has actual knowledge of a lis pendens filed against such dwelling unit pursuant to \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"When and how docketed and indexed\" href=\"\/8.01-268\/\">8.01-268<\/a>, such owner shall provide to a prospective purchaser a written disclosure that so states. 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