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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86794</law_id><section_number>55.1-2004</section_number><catch_line>Partition</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="20">Horizontal Property Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Creation and Alteration of Horizontal Property Regimes</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The common elements, both general and limited, shall remain undivided. No <span class="dictionary">apartment</span> owner, or any other <span class="dictionary">person</span>, shall bring any action or other proceeding for <span class="dictionary">partition</span> or division of the co-ownership of the common elements as provided under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Exclusive and common rights of owners" href="/55.1-2007/">55.1-2007</a>. <a id="paragraph-310791" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-2004/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as a limitation on <span class="dictionary">partition</span> by the owners of one or more <span class="dictionary">apartments</span> in a horizontal <span class="dictionary">property</span> regime as to the individual ownership of such <span class="dictionary">apartment</span> or <span class="dictionary">apartments</span> without terminating the regime or as to the ownership of <span class="dictionary">property</span> outside the regime, provided that upon <span class="dictionary">partition</span> of any such individual <span class="dictionary">apartment</span> it shall be sold as an entity and shall not be partitioned in kind. <a id="paragraph-310792" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-2004/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1966, c. 683, &#xA7; 55-79.34; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
