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2003 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 55-248.13:2 of the Code of Virginia, as it shall become effective, is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 55-248.13:2. (Effective July 1, 2003) Access of tenant to cable, satellite and other television facilities.
No landlord shall demand or accept payment of any fee, charge or other thing of
value from any provider of cable television service, cable modem service,
satellite master antenna television service, direct broadcast satellite television
service, subscription television service or service of any other television programming
system in exchange for merely granting a television service provider mere
access to the landlord's tenants or giving the tenants of such landlord
mere access to such service. A landlord may be compensated by such
television service provider for the use and occupancy of the landlord's
property and for any services rendered to that provider by the landlord in
amounts reasonably related to the values of that property and those services
rendered, including without limitation, physical occupation of the property,
services provided to the provider by the landlord, costs imposed on the
landlord, and benefits obtained by the provider. enter into a service agreement
with a television service provider to provide marketing and other services to the
television service provider, designed to facilitate the television service
provider’s delivery of its services. Under such a service agreement, the
television service provider may compensate the landlord for the reasonable value of
the services provided, and for the reasonable value of the landlord's property
used by the television service provider.
No landlord shall demand or accept any such payment from any tenants in exchange therefor unless the landlord is itself the provider of the service. Nor shall any landlord discriminate in rental charges between tenants who receive any such service and those who do not. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit a landlord from requiring that the provider of such service and the tenant bear the entire cost of the installation, operation or removal of the facilities incident thereto, or prohibit a landlord from demanding or accepting reasonable indemnity or security for any damages caused by such installation, operation or removal.