Bill Text: VA HB1405 | 2013 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Private road easements; maintenance and repairs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice [HB1405 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2013-HB1405-Prefiled.html
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13101587D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 55-50.4 as follows: §55-50.4. Private road easements; maintenance and repairs. A. Whenever a private road or right-of-way serves as access for more than one property owner and operates as the primary source of ingress and egress for each property, all property owners whose property is served by such private road or right-of-way shall be jointly and equally responsible for the cost of maintaining and repairing the road or right-of-way. For purposes of this section, the cost of maintaining and repairing the road or right-of-way includes the cost of snow removal but does not include the cost of capital improvements to the road or right-of-way. B.
Nothing in this section shall preclude the property owners from entering into
an agreement to allocate the
costs of maintaining or repairing the private road or right-of-way in
any manner that they agree upon. However, no
agreement made between the property owners shall be binding on their successors
in title unless it is in writing and has been recorded in the deed book in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court for the
jurisdiction where the private road or right-of-way is located. |
