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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69600</law_id><section_number>55.1-1306</section_number><catch_line>Demands and charges prohibited; access by tenant&amp;#8217;s guest or invitee; purchases by manufactured home owner not restricted; exception; conditions of occupancy</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-1318</reference></referred_to_by><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="13">Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> shall not demand or collect: <a id="paragraph-251619" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> An entrance fee for the <span class="dictionary">privilege</span> of leasing or occupying a <span class="dictionary">manufactured home lot</span>; <a id="paragraph-251620" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A commission on the sale of a manufactured home located in the <span class="dictionary">manufactured home park</span>, unless the <span class="dictionary">tenant</span> expressly employs him to perform a service in connection with such sale, but no such employment of the <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> by the <span class="dictionary">tenant</span> shall be a condition or term of the initial sale or rental; <a id="paragraph-251621" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> A fee for improvements or installations on the interior of a manufactured home, unless the <span class="dictionary">tenant</span> expressly employs him to perform a service in connection with such improvements or installations; <a id="paragraph-251622" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> A 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 services, 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 in this subdivision shall prohibit a <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> from 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 installation, operation, or removal or prohibit a <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> from demanding or accepting reasonable indemnity or security for any <span class="dictionary">damages</span> caused by such installation, operation, or removal; or <a id="paragraph-251623" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> An exit fee for moving a manufactured home from a <span class="dictionary">manufactured home park</span>. <a id="paragraph-251624" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A <span class="dictionary">guest or invitee</span> of the <span class="dictionary">tenant</span> shall have free access to the <span class="dictionary">tenant</span>&#x2019;s manufactured home site without charge or registration. <a id="paragraph-251625" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> A <span class="dictionary">manufactured home owner</span> shall not be restricted in his choice of vendors from whom he may purchase his (i) manufactured home, except in connection with the initial leasing or renting of a newly constructed lot not previously leased or rented to any other person, or (ii) goods and services. However, nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a <span class="dictionary">landlord</span> from prescribing reasonable requirements governing, as a condition of occupancy, the style, size, or quality of the manufactured home or other structures placed on the <span class="dictionary">manufactured home lot</span>. <a id="paragraph-251626" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1306/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1975, c. 535, &#xA7; 55-248.45; 1987, c. 513; 1989, c. 87; 1992, c. 709; 2008, c. 329; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
