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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73244</law_id><section_number>62.1-44.15:41</section_number><catch_line>Liability of common interest communities</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="62.1">Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3.1">State Water Control Law</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2.3">Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act (VESMA)</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever a common interest community cedes responsibility for the maintenance, repair, and replacement of a stormwater management facility on its real property to the Commonwealth or political <span class="dictionary">subdivision</span> thereof, such common interest community shall be immune from civil liability in relation to such stormwater management facility. In <span class="dictionary">order</span> for the immunity established by this subsection to apply, (i) the common interest community must cede such responsibility by <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or other instrument executed by both parties and (ii) the Commonwealth or the governing body of the political <span class="dictionary">subdivision</span> shall have accepted the responsibility ceded by the common interest community in writing or by resolution. As used in this section, maintenance, repair, and replacement shall include, without limitation, cleaning of the facility, maintenance of adjacent grounds that are part of the facility, maintenance and replacement of fencing where the facility is fenced, and posting of signage indicating the identity of the governmental entity that maintains the facility. Acceptance or approval of an easement, <span class="dictionary">subdivision</span> plat, site <span class="dictionary">plan</span>, or other <span class="dictionary">plan</span> of development shall not constitute the acceptance by the Commonwealth or the governing body of the political <span class="dictionary">subdivision</span> required to satisfy clause (ii). The immunity granted by this section shall not apply to actions or omissions by the common interest community constituting intentional or willful misconduct or gross <span class="dictionary">negligence</span>. For the purposes of this section, &#x201C;common interest community&#x201D; means the same as that term is defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-2345/">54.1-2345</a>.</p></section></text><history>2004, c. 372, &#xA7; 10.1-603.12:3; 2010, c. 853; 2012, cc. 785, 819; 2013, cc. 756, 793; 2016, cc. 68, 758.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
