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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72226</law_id><section_number>55.1-304</section_number><catch_line>Relocation of easement</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="I">Property Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Form and Effect of Deeds and Covenants; Liens</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Form and Effect of Deeds; Easements</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The owner of land that is subject to an easement for the purpose of ingress and egress may relocate the easement, on the servient estate, by recording in the office of the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the county or city in which the easement or any part of such easement is located, a written agreement evidencing the consent of all affected persons and setting forth the new location of the easement. In the absence of such written agreement, the owner of the land that is subject to such easement may seek relocation of the easement on the servient estate upon <span class="dictionary">petition</span> to the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> and notice to all parties in interest. The <span class="dictionary">petition</span> shall be granted if, after a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> held, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> finds that (i) the relocation will not result in economic damage to the parties in interest, (ii) there will be no undue hardship created by the relocation, and (iii) the easement has been in existence for not less than 10 years.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5168; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-50; 1992, c. 373; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
