Article 4 Tenant Remedies

This article is comprised of the following sections:
  • §55.1-1234 Noncompliance by landlord
  • §55.1-1234.1 Uninhabitable dwelling unit
  • §55.1-1235 Early termination of rental agreement by military personnel
  • §55.1-1236 Early termination of rental agreements by victims of family abuse, sexual abuse or other criminal sexual assault, or stalking
  • §55.1-1237 Notice to tenant in event of foreclosure
  • §55.1-1238 Failure to deliver possession
  • §55.1-1239 Wrongful failure to supply an essential service
  • §55.1-1240 Fire or casualty damage
  • §55.1-1241 Landlord’s noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent
  • §55.1-1242 Rent escrow required for continuance of tenant’s case
  • §55.1-1243 Repealed
  • §55.1-1243.1 Tenant’s remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit, interruption of services, or actions taken to make premises unsafe
  • §55.1-1243.2 Tenant’s remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit due to condemnation
  • §55.1-1244 Tenant’s assertion; rent escrow
  • §55.1-1244.1 Tenant’s remedy by repair