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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86008</law_id><section_number>55.1-1927</section_number><catch_line>Contraction of condominium</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="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><p>No <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> shall be contracted except in accordance with the provisions of the declaration and of this chapter. Any such contraction shall be deemed to have occurred at the time of the recordation of an amendment to the declaration, executed by the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span>, containing a legal description by metes and bounds of the <span class="dictionary">land</span> withdrawn from the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span>. If portions of the withdrawable <span class="dictionary">land</span> were described pursuant to subdivision D 5 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Contents of declaration" href="/55.1-1916/">55.1-1916</a>, then no such portion shall be so withdrawn after the conveyance of any <span class="dictionary">unit</span> on such portion. If no such portions were described, then none of the withdrawable <span class="dictionary">land</span> shall be withdrawn after the first conveyance of any <span class="dictionary">unit</span>.</p></section></text><history>1974, c. 416, &#xA7; 55-79.64; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
