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2011 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 10.1-1012 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 10.1-1012. Notification.
Whenever any instrument conveying a conservation easement is
recorded after July 1, 1988, the party responsible for recording it or his
agent shall mail certified copies thereof, together with any attached plats
and a notice as to specifying the date and place of
recordation, to the commissioner of revenue for the local jurisdiction
in which the real property subject thereto is located, the Attorney General
of the Commonwealth, the Director of the Department of Conservation and
Recreation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, and to any other public
body named in such instrument. Certified copies of the instrument creating
such easement, together with information specifying the date and place of its
recordation, shall be mailed to the local jurisdiction in which the real
property subject thereto is located, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth,
the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and to any public body named in such
instrument. Whenever any conservation easement is on lands that are part of
or contain a historic place or landmark as certified, either
by the United States or the Virginia Historic Landmarks Board, listed on
either the National Register of Historic Places or the Virginia Landmarks
Register, any notice required above by this section shall also
be given to the Virginia Historic Landmarks Board Director of the
Department of Historic Resources.