HB1715: Conservation easements; removes requirement that person recording easement mail certified copy.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1715
Offered January 12, 2011
Prefiled January 10, 2011
A BILL to amend and reenact § 10.1-1012 of the Code of Virginia, relating to parties to be notified of conservation easements.
Patron-- Wilt

Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

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.