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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74610</law_id><section_number>55.1-1222</section_number><catch_line>Access of tenant to cable, satellite, and other television facilities</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="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Rental Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="12">Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Landlord Obligations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> of a <span class="dictionary">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 <span class="dictionary">landlord</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">tenants</span> or giving the <span class="dictionary">tenants</span> of such <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> mere access to such service. A <span class="dictionary">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&#x2019;s delivery of its services. Under such a service agreement, the television service provider may compensate the <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> for the reasonable value of the services provided and for the reasonable value of the <span class="dictionary">landlord</span>&#x2019;s property used by the television service provider.
		No <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> shall demand or accept any such payment from any <span class="dictionary">tenants</span> in exchange for such service unless the <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> is itself the provider of the service, nor shall any <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> discriminate in rental charges between <span class="dictionary">tenants</span> who receive any such service and those who do not. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit a <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> from (i) requiring that the provider of such service and the <span class="dictionary">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 <span class="dictionary">damages</span> caused by such installation, operation, or removal.</p></section></text><history>1982, c. 323, &#xA7; 55-248.13:2; 2000, c. 760; 2003, cc. 60, 64, 68; 2017, c. 730; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
