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A public service corporation may have the right to obtain some or all of these rights through exercise of eminent domain. To the extent that any of the rights being conveyed are not subject to eminent domain, you have the right to choose not to convey those rights and you could not be compelled to do so. You have the right to negotiate compensation for any rights that you are voluntarily conveying.”\n\t\tIf such an instrument does not bear such a notice provision but is accepted for recordation in any Clerk’s office, the absence of such notice provision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such instrument.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":248070,"text":"No instrument executed by a landowner after January 1, 2002, by which an easement of right of way in land is conveyed to a public service corporation shall be accepted for recordation in any Clerk’s office that maintains property records unless it bears the following provision:\n\t\t“NOTICE TO LANDOWNER: You are conveying rights to a public service corporation. A public service corporation may have the right to obtain some or all of these rights through exercise of eminent domain. 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This law was first created in 2001. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 751<\/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":false,"permalink":{"id":249073,"object_type":"law","relational_id":68525,"identifier":"56-259.1","token":"56\/10\/5\/56-259.1","url":"\/56-259.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-259.1\/","token":"56\/10\/5\/56-259.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Instruments conveying easements to public service corporations","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-259.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

No instrument executed by a landowner after January 1, 2002, by which an easement of right of way in land is conveyed to a public service corporation<\/span> shall be accepted for recordation in any Clerk’s office that maintains property records unless it bears the following provision:\n\t\t“NOTICE TO LANDOWNER: You are conveying rights to a public service corporation<\/span>. A public service corporation<\/span> may have the right to obtain some or all of these rights through exercise of eminent domain. To the extent that any of the rights being conveyed are not subject to eminent domain, you have the right to choose not to convey those rights and you could not be compelled to do so. You have the right to negotiate compensation for any rights that you are voluntarily conveying.”\n\t\tIf such an instrument does not bear such a notice provision but is accepted for recordation in any Clerk’s office, the absence of such notice provision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such instrument.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nINSTRUMENTS CONVEYING EASEMENTS TO PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS (\u00a7 56-259.1)\n\nNo instrument executed by a landowner after January 1, 2002, by which an\neasement of right of way in land is conveyed to a public service corporation\nshall be accepted for recordation in any Clerk’s office that maintains\nproperty records unless it bears the following provision:\n\t\t“NOTICE TO LANDOWNER: You are conveying rights to a public service\ncorporation. A public service corporation may have the right to obtain some or\nall of these rights through exercise of eminent domain. To the extent that any\nof the rights being conveyed are not subject to eminent domain, you have the\nright to choose not to convey those rights and you could not be compelled to do\nso. You have the right to negotiate compensation for any rights that you are\nvoluntarily conveying.”\n\t\tIf such an instrument does not bear such a notice provision but is accepted\nfor recordation in any Clerk’s office, the absence of such notice\nprovision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such instrument.\n\nHISTORY: 2001, c. 751.","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}}