CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEMANDS AND CHARGES PROHIBITED; ACCESS BY TENANT’S INVITEES; PURCHASES BY
MANUFACTURED HOME OWNER NOT RESTRICTED; EXCEPTION; CONDITIONS OF OCCUPANCY (§
55-248.45)

A. A landlord shall not demand or collect:

   1.  An entrance fee for the privilege of leasing or occupying a manufactured
   home lot;

   2.  A commission on the sale of a manufactured home located in the
   manufactured home park unless the tenant expressly employs him to perform a
   service in connection with such sale but no such employment of the landlord by
   the tenant shall be a condition or term of the initial sale or rental;

   3.  A fee for improvements or installations on the interior of a manufactured
   home, unless the tenant expressly employs him to perform a service in
   connection with such entrance, installation, improvement or sale;

   4.  A 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 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 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; or

   5.  An exit fee for moving a manufactured home from a manufactured home park.

B. An invitee of the tenant shall have free access to the tenant’s
manufactured home site without charge or registration.

C. A manufactured home owner shall not be restricted in his choice of vendors
from whom he may purchase his (i) manufactured home, except in connection with
the initial leasing or renting of a newly constructed lot not previously leased
or rented to any other person, or (ii) goods and services. However, nothing in
this chapter shall prohibit a landlord from prescribing reasonable requirements
governing, as a condition of occupancy, the style, size or quality of the
manufactured home, or other structures placed on the manufactured home lot.

HISTORY: 1975, c. 535; 1987, c. 513; 1989, c. 87; 1992, c. 709; 2008, c. 329.