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