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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82803</law_id><section_number>55.1-306</section_number><catch_line>Utility easements</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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> For the purposes of this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">utility services</span>&#x201D; means any products, services, and equipment related to energy, broadband and other communications services, water, and sewerage. <a id="paragraph-296829" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-306/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Where an easement, whether appurtenant or gross, is expressly granted by an instrument recorded on or after July 1, 2006, that imposes on a servient tract of land a covenant (i) to provide an easement in the future for the benefit of <span class="dictionary">utility services</span>; (ii) to relocate, construct, or maintain facilities owned by an entity that provides <span class="dictionary">utility services</span>; or (iii) to pay the cost of such relocation, construction, or maintenance, such covenant shall be deemed for all purposes to touch and concern the servient tract, to run with the servient tract, its successors, and assigns for the benefit of the entity providing <span class="dictionary">utility services</span>, its successors, and assigns. <a id="paragraph-296830" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-306/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2006, c. 795, &#xA7; 55-50.2; 2019, c. 712; 2020, cc. 1131, 1132.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
