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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62581</law_id><section_number>25.1-418</section_number><catch_line>Reimbursement of owner for certain expenses</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="25.1">Eminent Domain</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Real Property Acquisition Policies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">state agency</span> acquiring real <span class="dictionary">property</span> in connection with any program or project, as soon as practicable after the first to occur of the date of payment of the purchase price or the date of deposit into <span class="dictionary">court</span> of funds to satisfy the award of compensation in a condemnation proceeding to acquire real <span class="dictionary">property</span>, shall reimburse the <span class="dictionary">owner</span>, to the extent the <span class="dictionary">state agency</span> deems fair and reasonable, for expenses he necessarily incurred for (i) recording fees, transfer taxes and similar expenses incidental to conveying such real <span class="dictionary">property</span> to the <span class="dictionary">state agency</span>; (ii) <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> costs for prepayment for any preexisting recorded <span class="dictionary">mortgage</span> entered into in good faith encumbering such real <span class="dictionary">property</span>; and (iii) the pro rata portion of real <span class="dictionary">property</span> taxes paid that are allocable to a period subsequent to the first to occur of the date of vesting title in the <span class="dictionary">state agency</span> or the effective date of <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of such real <span class="dictionary">property</span> by the <span class="dictionary">state agency</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 33-75.06, 33.1-132.6; 1970, c. 40, &#xA7; 25-249; 1972, c. 738; 2003, c. 940.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
