Virginia Code 55.1-1304: Tenant’s obligations
In addition to the provisions of the rental agreement, the tenant shall:
Terms Used In Virginia Code 55.1-1304
- Guest or invitee: means a person, other than the tenant, who has the permission of the tenant to visit but not to occupy the premises. See Virginia Code 55.1-1300
- Landlord: means the manufactured home park owner or the lessor or sublessor of a manufactured home park. See Virginia Code 55.1-1300
- Manufactured home: means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, that in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure. See Virginia Code 55.1-1300
- Manufactured home lot: means a parcel of land within the boundaries of a manufactured home park provided for the placement of a single manufactured home and the exclusive use of its occupants. See Virginia Code 55.1-1300
- Manufactured home park: means a parcel of land under single or common ownership upon which five or more manufactured homes are located on a continual, nonrecreational basis together with any structure, equipment, road, or facility intended for use incidental to the occupancy of the manufactured homes. See Virginia Code 55.1-1300
- Rental agreement: means any agreement, written or oral, and valid rules and regulations adopted in conformance with § 55. See Virginia Code 55.1-1300
- Tenant: means a person entitled as under a rental agreement to occupy a manufactured home lot to the exclusion of others. See Virginia Code 55.1-1300
1. Comply with applicable laws affecting manufactured home owners and tenants;
2. Keep and maintain the exterior of the tenant’s manufactured home and manufactured home lot as clean and safe as conditions permit;
3. Place all garbage and other waste in the appropriate receptacles, which shall be provided by the tenant when door-to-door garbage and waste pickup is provided;
4. Use in a reasonable and orderly manner all facilities and appliances in the manufactured home park and require any guest or invitee to do so;
5. Conduct himself and require any guest or invitee to conduct himself in a manner that will not disturb the tenant’s neighbors’ peaceful enjoyment of the premises;
6. Abide by all reasonable rules and regulations imposed by the landlord; and
7. In the absence of express written agreement to the contrary, occupy the tenant’s manufactured home only as a dwelling unit.
1975, c. 535, § 55-248.44; 1992, c. 709; 2019, c. 712.