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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59526</law_id><section_number>55.1-706</section_number><catch_line>Required disclosures; pending building or zoning violations</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="II">Real Estate Settlements and Recordation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding the exemptions in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exemptions" href="/55.1-702/">55.1-702</a>, if the owner of a residential dwelling unit has actual knowledge of any pending enforcement actions pursuant to the Uniform Statewide Building Code (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/36-97/">36-97</a> et seq.) that affect the safe, decent, sanitary living conditions of the property of which the owner has been notified in writing by the locality, or any pending violation of the local zoning <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> that the violator has not abated or remedied under the zoning <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, within a time period set out in the written notice of violation from the locality or established by a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of competent <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>, the owner shall provide to a prospective purchaser a written disclosure that so states. Such disclosure shall be provided to the purchaser on a form provided by the Real Estate Board on its website and otherwise in accordance with this chapter.</p></section></text><history>2017, c. 386, &#xA7; 55-519.2:1; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
