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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62743</law_id><section_number>55.1-1414</section_number><catch_line>Abandonment of nonresidential rental property</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="14">Nonresidential Tenancies</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Landlord Remedies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any tenant from whom rent is owing and unpaid abandons a nonresidential rental property and leaves such premises unoccupied, and if the tenant&#x2019;s personal property that is subject to distress is not sufficient to satisfy the rent owed, the lessor or his agent may post a written notice on a conspicuous part of the premises requiring the tenant to pay the rent within 10 days from the date of such notice, in the case of a monthly tenant, or within one month from the date of such notice, in the case of a yearly tenant. If the owed rent is not paid within the time specified in the notice, the lessor shall be entitled to <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of the premises and may enter the premises, and the right of such tenant to possess the premises shall terminate, but the landlord may recover the rent up to such termination.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5518; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-224; 2017, c. 730; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
