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1999 SESSION

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HB 2276 Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rent escrow required.

Introduced by: L. Preston Bryant, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rent escrow required in certain cases. Provides that where a landlord has filed an unlawful detainer action seeking possession of the premises and the tenant seeks to obtain a continuance of the action or to set it for a contested trial, the court shall, upon request of the landlord and as a condition of granting the continuance or contested trial date, order the tenant to pay an amount equal to the rent that would be due as of the continuance or contested trial date into the court escrow account Upon payment of the required amount by the tenant, the action shall be continued in the court’s discretion or set for a contested trial, with the provision that should the tenant fail to pay future rent due under the rental agreement, the court shall enter judgment against the tenant upon request of the landlord. The court shall not require the rent to be escrowed where it finds the tenant has asserted a good faith defense or if the landlord has requested the continuance or the contested trial. The bill also contains a provision allowing the court, to meet the ends of justice, to grant a tenant an additional week to pay the rent due into the court escrow account.


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