CODE OF VIRGINIA ESTABLISHMENT OF HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME (§ 55-79.3) Whenever a developer, the sole owner or the co-owners of a building or buildings expressly declare, through the recordation of a master deed or lease, which shall set forth the particulars enumerated by § 55-79.7, their desire to submit their property to the regime established by this chapter, there shall be thereby established a horizontal property regime. HISTORY: 1962, c. 627, § 3; 1966, c. 683.