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HB 1615 Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of methamphetamine laboratory.

Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of methamphetamine laboratory. Requires the owner of residential property or a landlord of a residential dwelling unit who has actual knowledge that the residential property was previously used to manufacture methamphetamine and has not been cleaned up in accordance with Department of Health guidelines to provide a written disclosure when selling or renting the property. The bill gives a tenant certain remedies if such disclosure is not provided when required.The bill contains a technical amendment and has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2014, for the disclosure provisions.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of methamphetamine laboratory. Requires the owner of residential property who has actual knowledge that the residential property was previously used as a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory or that the property previously used as a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory has been cleaned up in accordance with the Department of Health guidelines, to provide a written disclosure when selling the property. Otherwise, the owner is required to provide a written disclosure that he makes no representation as to the presence of a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory on the property. The bill also provides that if residential property formerly used as a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory has been cleaned up in accordance with the guidelines established by the Department of Health, the person or entity performing the cleanup shall file a declaration of the cleanup in the public land records of the locality in which the property located.