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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86631</law_id><section_number>55.1-1934</section_number><catch_line>Amendment of condominium instruments</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-1910</reference><reference>55.1-1941</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> If there is no <span class="dictionary">unit owner</span> other than the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span>, the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span> may unilaterally <span class="dictionary">amend</span> the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments, and an amendment signed by the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span> is effective upon recordation. This section shall not be construed to nullify, limit, or otherwise affect the validity of enforceability of any agreement renouncing or to renounce, in whole or in part, the right hereby conferred. <a id="paragraph-310265" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1934/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If any of the <span class="dictionary">units</span> in the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> is restricted exclusively to residential use and there is any <span class="dictionary">unit owner</span> other than the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span>, the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments shall be amended only by agreement of <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span> of <span class="dictionary">units</span> to which two-thirds of the votes in the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>&#x2019; association appertain, or such larger majority as the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments may specify, except in cases for which this chapter provides different methods of amendment. If none of the <span class="dictionary">units</span> in the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> is restricted exclusively to residential use, the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments may specify a majority smaller than the minimum specified in the preceding sentence. <a id="paragraph-310266" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1934/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> An action to challenge the validity of an amendment adopted by the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>&#x2019; association pursuant to this section may not be brought more than one year after the amendment is recorded. <a id="paragraph-310267" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1934/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Agreement of the required majority of <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span> to any amendment of the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments shall be evidenced by their execution of the amendment, or ratifications of such amendment, and the same is effective when a copy of the amendment is recorded together with a certification, signed by the principal <span class="dictionary">officer</span> of the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>&#x2019; association or by such other <span class="dictionary">officer</span> as the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments may specify, that the requisite majority of the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span> signed the amendment or ratifications of such amendment. <a id="paragraph-310268" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1934/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> Except to the extent expressly permitted or expressly required by other provisions of this chapter or agreed to by 100 percent of the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>, no amendment to the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments shall change (i) the boundaries of any unit, (ii) the undivided interest in the <span class="dictionary">common elements</span>, (iii) the liability for <span class="dictionary">common expenses</span>, or (iv) the number of votes in the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>&#x2019; association that appertains to any unit. <a id="paragraph-310269" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1934/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="F"><p><span class="prefix-number">F.</span> Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span> may unilaterally execute and record a corrective amendment or supplement to the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments to correct a mathematical mistake, an inconsistency, or a scrivener&#x2019;s error or clarify an ambiguity in the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments with respect to an objectively verifiable <span class="dictionary">fact</span>, including recalculating the undivided interest in the <span class="dictionary">common elements</span>, the liability for <span class="dictionary">common expenses</span> or the number of votes in the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>&#x2019; association appertaining to a unit, within five years after the recordation of the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instrument containing or creating such mistake, inconsistency, error, or ambiguity. No such amendment or supplement may materially reduce what the obligations of the <span class="dictionary">declarant</span> would have been if the mistake, inconsistency, error, or ambiguity had not occurred. Regardless of the date of recordation of the <span class="dictionary">condominium</span> instruments, the principal <span class="dictionary">officer</span> of the <span class="dictionary">unit owners</span>&#x2019; association may also unilaterally execute and record such a corrective amendment or supplement upon a vote of two-thirds of the members of the <span class="dictionary">executive board</span>. All corrective amendments and supplements recorded prior to July 1, 1986, are hereby validated to the extent that such corrective amendments and supplements would have been permitted by this subsection. <a id="paragraph-310270" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-1934/#F"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1974, c. 416, &#xA7; 55-79.71; 1993, c. 667; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
