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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69213</law_id><section_number>55.1-1925</section_number><catch_line>Conversion of convertible spaces</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-1900</reference><reference>55.1-1933</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="IV">Common Interest Communities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="19">Virginia Condominium Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Creation, Alteration, and Termination of Condominiums</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">declarant</span> may convert all or any portion of any <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span> into one or more <span class="dictionary">units</span> or common elements, including <span class="dictionary">limited common elements</span>, subject to any restrictions and limitations that the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments may specify. Any such conversion shall be deemed to have occurred at the time of the recordation of appropriate instruments pursuant to subsection B and subsection E of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Contents of plats and plans" href="/55.1-1920/">55.1-1920</a>. <a id="paragraph-250424" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1925/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Simultaneously with the recording of plats and plans pursuant to subsection E of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Contents of plats and plans" href="/55.1-1920/">55.1-1920</a>, the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span> shall prepare, execute, and record an amendment to the declaration describing the conversion. Such amendment shall assign an <span class="dictionary">identifying number</span> to each <span class="dictionary">unit</span> formed out of a <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span> and shall allocate to each <span class="dictionary">unit</span> a portion of the undivided interest in the common elements appertaining to that space. Such amendment shall describe or delineate any <span class="dictionary">limited common elements</span> formed out of the <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span>, showing or designating the <span class="dictionary">unit</span> to which each is assigned. <a id="paragraph-250425" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1925/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> If all or any portion of any <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span> is converted into one or more <span class="dictionary">units</span> in accordance with this section, the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span> shall prepare and execute, and record simultaneously with the amendment to the declaration, an amendment to the bylaws. The amendment to the bylaws shall reallocate votes in the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>&#x2019; association, rights to future common profits, and liabilities for <span class="dictionary">future common expenses</span> not specially assessed, all as in the case of the subdivision of a unit in accordance with subsection D of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Subdivision of units" href="/55.1-1933/">55.1-1933</a>. <a id="paragraph-250426" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1925/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span> not converted in accordance with the provisions of this section, or any portion of such <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span> not so converted, shall be treated for all purposes as a single unit until and unless it is so converted, and the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed applicable to any such <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span>, or portion of such <span class="dictionary">convertible space</span>, as though the same were a unit. <a id="paragraph-250427" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1925/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1974, c. 416, &#xA7; 55-79.62; 1999, c. 560; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
